Director
Spike Lee
91 movies as actor · 71 as director
Born Mar 20, 1957 (age 69)From Atlanta, Georgia, USAAlso known as Shelton Jackson Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker and actor. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues. Lee received numerous accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Peabody Awards as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award.
Lee studied filmmaking at both Morehouse College and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where he directed his student film Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), which won a Student Academy Award. He later founded the production company 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, where he has produced more than 35 films. He made his directorial debut with the comedy She's Gotta Have It (1986). He received widespread critical acclaim for the drama Do the Right Thing (1989), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He directed the historical epic Malcolm X (1992), earning the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. With the biographical…
Known for
BlacKkKlansman
2018 · Crime, Comedy
Inside Man
2006 · Crime, Drama
25th Hour
2002 · Crime, Drama
Oldboy
2013 · Mystery, Thriller
Do the Right Thing
1989 · Drama
Malcolm X
1992 · Drama, History
Da 5 Bloods
2020 · War, Drama
He Got Game
1998 · Drama
Summer of Sam
1999 · Crime, Drama
Highest 2 Lowest
2025 · Thriller, Crime
Miracle at St. Anna
2008 · Drama, War
Clockers
1995 · Crime, Drama
Movies directed by Spike Lee
Boner
Upcoming
Highest 2 Lowest
2025
David Byrne's American Utopia
2020
Da 5 Bloods
2020
3 Brothers: Radio Raheem, Eric Garner and George Floyd
2020
New York New York
2020
Land of the Free
2019
BlacKkKlansman
2018
Pass Over
2018
Rodney King
2017
Be Truly Free
2017
2 Fists Up
2016
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
2016
Chi-Raq
2015
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: The Greatest Catch Ever
2015
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
2015
Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth
2015
Throw Like A Girl
Throw Like A Girl
2014
Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store
2014
Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience
2014
Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife
2014
Amex Unstaged Pharrell Williams Live at
Amex Unstaged Pharrell Williams Live at the Apollo
2014
I Can't Breathe
I Can't Breathe
2014
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
2013
Oldboy
2013
Bad 25
2012
Red Hook Summer
2012
Passing Strange
2009
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009
Kobe Doin' Work
2009
Miracle at St. Anna
2008
Inside Man
2006
All the Invisible Children
2006
Jesus Children of America
2005
Sucker Free City
2004
She Hate Me
2004
25th Hour
2002
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2002
Jim Brown: All-American
2002
The Concert for New York City
2001
Come Rain or Come Shine
2001
A Huey P. Newton Story
2001
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
2001
Bamboozled
2000
The Original Kings of Comedy
2000
Bernie Mac: Live from Charlotte
2000
Summer of Sam
1999
Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and Kosovo
1999
John Leguizamo: Freak
1998
Pavarotti & Friends - For the Children of Liberia
1998
He Got Game
1998
4 Little Girls
1997
HIStory on Film, Volume II
1997
Get on the Bus
1996
Girl 6
1996
Lumière & Company
1995
Clockers
1995
Crooklyn
1994
Malcolm X
1992
Prince and the N.P.G.: Diamonds and Pearls Video Collection
1992
Jungle Fever
1991
Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson
Spike Lee Presents Mike Tyson
1990
Mo' Better Blues
1990
Spike & Co.: Do It a Cappella
1990
Do the Right Thing
1989
School Daze
1988
Horn of Plenty
1986
She's Gotta Have It
1986
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
1983
Sarah
Sarah
1981
The Answer
1980
Spike Lee as actor
Sophie Marceau, à voix haute
2026 · Self (archive footage)
AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Eddie Murphy
2026 · Self
Ladies & Gentlemen... 50 Years of SNL Music
2025 · Self (archive footage)
13 Steps - Die unglaubliche Karriere von Edwin Moses
2024
Samuel L. Jackson: Did I Stutter?
2023 · self
The Moviemakers: Spike Lee
2023 · Self
Denzel Washington: A Model American
2022 · Self
Gold Blooded
2022 · Self
Sidney
2022 · Self
A Daughter's Tribute to Her Father: Souleymane Cissé
2022 · Self
A Choice of Weapons: Inspired by Gordon Parks
2021 · Self
Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist
2021 · Self
Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
2018 · Self
Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1
2018 · Self
Plankton Salesmen
2017 · Self (archive footage)
Be Truly Free
2017 · Narrator (voice)
Birth of a Movement
2017 · Self
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
2016 · Self
Spike Lee's Lil' Joints: The Greatest Catch Ever
2015 · self
French Cinema Mon Amour
2015 · Self
Director Spike Lee's New York City
Director Spike Lee's New York City
2015 · Self
Champs
2015 · Self
Ray Allen/AKA- Jesus Shuttlesworth
2015
Do The Right Thing 25 Year Anniversary A Beats Music Experience
2014 · self
Life's Essentials with Ruby Dee
2014 · Self
We the People: From Crispus Attucks to President Barack Obama
2014 · Self
Bad 25
2012 · Self
Red Hook Summer
2012 · Mr. Mookie
Yo! The Story of ‘Yo! MTV Raps’
2012 · Self
Brooklyn Boheme
2012 · Self
A Man's Story
2011 · Self
Guest
2011 · Self
On the Shoulders of Giants
2011
Four Days in October
2010 · Self (archive footage)
Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks
2010 · Self
PoliWood
2009 · Self
Do the Right Thing: 20 Years Later
2009 · Self
Kobe Doin' Work
2009 · Self
40 x 15: The Forty Years of the Directors' Fortnight
2008 · Self
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the
Beyond Wiseguys: Italian Americans & the Movies
2008
Pixote In Memoriam
2007 · Self
Lights, Action, Music
2007 · Self
Life O' The Party: On the Road with Prince and the New Power Generation
2005 · Self
Street Fight
2005 · Self
How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
2005
By Any Means Necessary: The Making of 'Malcolm X'
2005 · Self
Through the Fire
2005
Best Sellers or: Peter Sellers and 'Dr. Strangelove'
2004 · Self
No Fighting in the War Room Or: 'Dr Strangelove' and the Nuclear Threat
2004 · Self
Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers
2004 · Self
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
2003 · Self
New York at the Movies
New York at the Movies
2002 · Self
It's Black Entertainment
2002 · Self
The Making and Meaning of 'We Are Family'
2002 · Self
3 A.M.
2001 · Filmmaker
The Making of 'Bamboozled'
2001 · Self
Lisa Picard Is Famous
2000 · Spike Lee
Michael Jordan to the Max
2000 · Self
Summer of Sam
1999 · John Jeffries
4 Little Girls
1997 · Interviewer (voice) (uncredited)
The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996 · Self
When We Were Kings
1996 · Self
The Universal Story
1996 · Self (archive footage)
Girl 6
1996 · Jimmy
Lumière & Company
1995 · Self (segment "Sarah Moon")
Clockers
1995 · Chucky
Below the Rim
1995
Drop Squad
1994 · Himself
Hoop Dreams
1994 · Self
Crooklyn
1994 · Snuffy
A Century of Cinema
1994 · Self
Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993
Farewell, Babylon!
1993 · Self
The Last Party
1993 · Self
Malcolm X
1992 · Shorty
Our Hollywood Education
Our Hollywood Education
1992 · Self
Sous les marches du palais
1991 · Self
Jungle Fever
1991 · Cyrus
MTV's 10th Anniversary Special
1991 · Self
Branford Marsalis: Steep
1991 · Self
Lonely in America
1990 · Spike Lee (Newsstand Customer) (uncredited)
Mo' Better Blues
1990 · Giant
Spike & Co.: Do It a Cappella
1990
Spike & Co. Do It a-Cappella
1990 · Self
Decade
1989 · Self
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
Making 'Do the Right Thing'
1989 · Self
First Works
1989 · Self
Do the Right Thing
1989 · Mookie
Public Enemy: Fight the Power... Live!
1989
School Daze
1988 · Darrell 'Half-Pint' Dunlap
She's Gotta Have It
1986 · Mars Blackmon
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