Spike Lee filmography
Shelton Lee is an Emmy Award-winning and Academy Award-nominated American film director, producer, writer, and actor, noted for his films that deal with controversial social and political issues. Lee's films are typically referred to as "Spike Lee Joints" and the closing credits always end with the phrases "By Any Means Necessary", "Ya Dig" and "Sho Nuff".[1]
Lee received a Master of Fine Arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, which culminated in his thesis film Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, the first student film to be showcased in Lincoln Center's New Directors New Films Festival.[2] Lee's first feature-film She's Gotta Have It was released three years later in 1986. Lee directed, produced, wrote, and acted in his first three feature-films: She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, and Do the Right Thing. Lee has starred or acted in many of his own films, including the role of Mars Blackmon, which he reprised for a series of Nike commercials that also starred Michael Jordan.[3] He has also been interviewed in and contributed to many documentaries.
In addition to his feature-film credits, Lee has directed a number of music videos by artists such as Prince, Michael Jackson, and Anita Baker. He has also directed music videos for songs featured in films he has directed, including "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy, which was featured heavily in the 1989 film Do the Right Thing.[4]
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[edit] Filmography
| Year | Film | Credited as | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | Actor | Role | ||
| 1983 | Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads |
Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1986 | She's Gotta Have It | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Mars Blackmon |
| 1988 | School Daze | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Half-Pint |
| 1989 | Do the Right Thing | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Mookie |
| 1990 | Mo' Better Blues | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Giant |
| 1991 | Jungle Fever | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Cyrus |
| Lonely in America | Yes | Himself | ||||
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Shorty |
| 1994 | Crooklyn | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Snuffy |
| D.R.O.P. Squad | Yes | Yes | Himself | |||
| Ghostwriter: Into the Comics | Yes | Himself | ||||
| 1995 | Clockers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Chucky |
| Lumière and Company | Yes | Yes | Himself | |||
| New Jersey Drive | Yes (Executive producer) |
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| Tales from the Hood | Yes | |||||
| 1996 | Get on the Bus | Yes | Yes | |||
| Girl 6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Jimmy | ||
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1998 | He Got Game | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Freak | Yes | |||||
| Pavarotti and Friends for the Children of Liberia |
Yes | |||||
| 1999 | Summer of Sam | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | John Jeffries |
| Pavarotti and Friends for the Guatemala and Kosovo |
Yes | |||||
| The Best Man | Yes | |||||
| 2000 | The Original Kings of Comedy | Yes | Yes | |||
| Bamboozled | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Afrocentricity | Yes (Executive producer) |
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| Lisa Picard is Famous | Yes | Himself | ||||
| Love & Basketball | Yes | |||||
| 2001 | A Huey P. Newton Story | Yes | ||||
| The Concert for New York City | Yes | |||||
| 3 A.M. | Yes | Yes | Filmmaker | |||
| 2002 | 25th Hour | Yes | Yes | |||
| Jim Brown: All-American | Yes | Yes | ||||
| Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet segment: "We Wuz Robbed" |
Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2003 | Good Fences | Yes (Executive producer) |
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| 2004 | She Hate Me | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Sucker Free City | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2005 | Dream Street | Yes | ||||
| Miracle's Boys | Yes | |||||
| All the Invisible Children segment: "Jesus Children of America" |
Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2006 | Inside Man | Yes | ||||
| When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts |
Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Shark (pilot) | Yes | |||||
| 2008 | Miracle at St. Anna | Yes | Yes | |||
| Passing Strange | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2009 | Kobe Doin' Work | Yes | Yes | Himself | ||
| 2010 | If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2011 | You're Nobody Till Somebody Kills You | Yes | ||||
| 2012 | Red Hook Summer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Mookie |
| TBA | Oldboy | Yes | ||||
[edit] Appearances in documentaries
Spike Lee has been interviewed or appeared as a guest in numerous documentaries.
| Year | Film |
|---|---|
| 1990 | Mandela in America |
| Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella | |
| 1993 | Seven Songs for Malcolm X |
| The Last Party | |
| 1994 | Hoop Dreams |
| 1995 | The Cronkite Reports: The Faltering Dream |
| First Works: A Revealing Look at Today's Greatest Directors, Vol. 1 |
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| 1996 | The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money |
| When We Were Kings | |
| 1997 | The Directors: Spike Lee |
| 2005 | How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It) |
| 2006 | Edge of Outside |
| 2007 | Lights! Action! Music! |
| 2008 | 40 x 15 |
| 2010 | Spike and Jim |
| 2010 | The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players |
[edit] Music videos
| Year | Artist | Song | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel |
"White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)" | |
| 1987 | Anita Baker | "No One in the World" | Rapture |
| 1988 | E.U. | "Da Butt" | School Daze OST |
| 1989 | Public Enemy | "Fight the Power" | Do the Right Thing OST and Fear of a Black Planet |
| 1991 | Fishbone | "Sunless Saturday" | The Reality of My Surroundings |
| State of Art | "Understanding" | Community | |
| 1992 | State of Art | "Laughing at the Years" | Community |
| Prince and the New Power Generation | "Money Don't Matter 2 Night" | Diamonds and Pearls | |
| Arrested Development | "Revolution"[5] | Malcolm X OST | |
| 1993 | Naughty by Nature | "Hip Hop Hooray" | 19 Naughty III |
| Eros Ramazzotti | "Cose della vita" | Tutte storie | |
| 1994 | Buckshot LeFonque | "Breakfast at Denny's" | Buckshot LeFonque |
| 1996 | Michael Jackson | "They Don't Care About Us" (Prison Version) | HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I |
| 1996 | Michael Jackson | "They Don't Care About Us" (Brazil/Olodum Version) | HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I |
| 2009 | Michael Jackson | "This Is It" | This Is It |
[edit] References
- General
- "Spike Lee > Filmography". Allmovie. http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=2:99175. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
- "Spike Lee – Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile". Rotten Tomatoes. http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/spike_lee/biography.php. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
- Specific
- ^ "Spike Lee Biography – Yahoo! Movies". Yahoo! Movies. http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1800019419/bio. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
- ^ "Spike Lee – Profile, Latest News and Related Articles". E!. http://www.eonline.com/celebrities/profile/index.jsp?uuid=31d59f58-42f4-4cbb-a61b-dd8f5ed41211. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
- ^ Curtis, Bryan (2008-06-01). "Bro Knows Football". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/01/sports/playmagazine/601show.html?pagewanted=print. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
- ^ Black, Johnny (August 2002). "The Greatest Songs Ever! Fight the Power". Blender. http://www.blender.com/guide/articles.aspx?id=381. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
- ^ "Revolution – Arrested Development - Music Video - MTV". MTV. http://www.mtv.com/videos/arrested-development/53823/revolution.jhtml. Retrieved 2008-02-05.
[edit] External links
- Spike Lee at the Internet Movie Database
