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About Spike Lee
Many of Lee’s films, which include She’s Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing, 4 Little Girls, Malcolm X, Mo’ Better Blues, Inside Man, Summer of Sam, and She Hate Me, are provocative examinations of race relations, political issues, and urban crime and violence. Lee received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay for Do the Right Thing, and one for Best Feature Documentary for 4 Little Girls, a piece about the 1963 16th Street Baptist Church bombing. She’s Gotta Have It earned the Prix de Jeunesse Award at the Cannes Film Festival. His 2006 HBO documentary, When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts, explored life in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. His most recent film, 2008’s Miracle at St. Anna, tells the story of four African-American soldiers trapped in an Italian village during World War II. This film was praised for bringing the often-overlooked experience of black infantrymen—known as buffalo soldiers—to the big screen. Lee’s production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, is located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, where he lived as a child. Filmography
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Born Shelton Jackson Lee in Atlanta in 1957, producer, director, writer, and actor Spike Lee made his first amateur film at age 20. He completed his first student film while attending Morehouse College. Lee later graduated from New York University Film School, where his thesis film Joe’s Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, won a Student Academy Award.