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Spike Lee
Spike Lee, born in 1957, American motion-picture maker, whose works examine race relations in the United States. Lee, who is African American, has produced thoughtful and sometimes controversial movies that have made him one of the most prominent American filmmakers. His success allowed him to establish his own production company, 40 Acres and a Mule.
He was born Shelton Jackson Lee in Atlanta, Georgia, and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He was educated at Morehouse College and at New York University. Lee's thesis film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1982), created in collaboration with classmate Ernest Dickerson, won a student Academy Award and was showcased in New York City at Lincoln Center and at the Museum of Modern Art.
Lee's talent attracted national attention in 1986 with the release of his low-budget film She's Gotta Have It. The film proved to be a financial and critical success, and it was followed by School Daze (1988), a musical film about Lee's college experiences; Do the Right Thing (1989), about race relations in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood; Mo' Better Blues (1990), about a group of black musicians; Jungle Fever (1991), about interracial relationships; and Malcolm X (1992), which stars American actor Denzel Washington as the militant black leader Malcolm X. In 1994 Lee released Crooklyn, which depicts an African American family living in Brooklyn during the early 1970s.
Lee's other films include Clockers (1995), an urban murder mystery; Girl 6 (1996), which follows the adventures of an aspiring African American female actor; and 4 Little Girls (1997), a documentary about four girls killed in a bombing in Alabama in 1963. He Got Game (1998) stars a true-life professional basketball player, Ray Allen, as a highly recruited high school basketball player named Jesus Shuttlesworth; Denzel Washington plays Shuttlesworth's father. Summer of Sam (1999) looks back at the summer of 1977, when people in New York City were preoccupied with a series of murders committed by a man who called himself “Son of Sam.”
Spike Lee
Multitalented director Spike Lee broke a number of film industry barriers to young filmmakers, particularly black filmmakers, in his rise to prominence. Lee's provocative and sometimes controversial films explore social and ethnic relationships in American society. The promise of his artistic ability and the popularity of his films, especially Do the Right Thing (1989), compelled studios to provide financial support for his projects.
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