Spike Lee

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1957 age 0

   Born

2. 1989 age 32

   CreditDo the Right Thing

   CreditDo the Right Thingdirector

   CreditDo the Right Thingproducer

   CreditDo the Right Thingscreenwriter

3. 1992 age 35

   CreditMalcolm X

   CreditMalcolm Xdirector

   CreditMalcolm Xproducer

   CreditMalcolm Xscreenwriter

4. 2002 age 45

   Credit25th Hourdirector

   Credit25th Hourproducer

5. 2006 age 49

   CreditInside Mandirector

6. 2018 age 61

   CreditBlacKkKlansmandirector

   CreditBlacKkKlansmanproducer

   CreditBlacKkKlansmanscreenwriter

• BBBarry Alexander Brown5 titles
• TBTerence Blanchard4 titles
• NTNicholas Turturro3 titles
• GEGiancarlo Esposito2 titles
• CPChristopher Plummer2 titles
• RCRuth E. Carter2 titles
• AAAshlie Atkinson2 titles
• IJIsiah Whitlock Jr.2 titles
• DWDenzel Washington2 titles
• RSRoger Guenveur Smith2 titles

• Parents

  • BLBill Lee

• Siblings

  • JLJoie Lee
  • CLCinqué Lee

Nothing recorded for: Spouse, Partner, Children, Influenced by, Studied under, Taught.

• In life, there are times to be quiet, and there are times to shut the fuck up. This is one of those times.

  Spike Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Let me tell you the story of right hand-left hand. It's a tale of good and evil. Hate: it was with this hand that Cain iced his brother. Love: these five fingers, they go straight to the soul of man. The right hand: the hand of love. The story of life is this: static. One hand is always fighting the other hand, and the left hand is kicking much ass. I mean, it looks like the right hand—Love—is finished. But hold on, stop the presses; the right hand is coming back. Yeah, he got the left hand on the ropes now, that's right. Ooh, it's a devastating right and Hate is hurt. He's down. Left-Hand Hate KO-ed by Love.

  Spike Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

  Spike Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Everybody's a teacher. People can teach you two things, what to do and what not to do.

  Spike Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0

• You always avoid direct eye contact, you know that? Are you afraid of something? Are you afraid that I might see the real you? Huh? Answer me. Come on, answer me.

  Spike Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I know that it's painful at times, but we're not making this up. The depths of degradation in cartoons, movies, and television shows, the misrepresentation of a people - it's an American legacy. Not just in television or movies, but in all media.

  Spike Lee, CC BY-SA 4.0

Nationalities

United States

Languages

English

Years active

1978–

Education

John Dewey High School, Morehouse College, New York University Tisch School of the Arts