"filmmaking. Two of his films have competed for the Palme d'Or award at the Cannes Film Festival, and of the two, ""BlacKkKlansman"" won the Grand Prix in 2018. Spike Lee Shelton Jackson ""Spike"" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced over 35 films since 1983. He made his directorial debut with ""She's Gotta Have It"" (1986), and has since directed such films as ""Do the Right Thing"" (1989), ""Malcolm X"" (1992), ""The Original Kings of Comedy"" (2000), ""25th Hour"" (2002), ""Inside Man"""
"Power"" by Public Enemy, which was featured heavily in the 1989 film ""Do the Right Thing"". Spike Lee filmography Spike Lee is an 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"". Lee received a Master of Fine Arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, which culminated in his thesis film """", the first student film to be showcased"
"Spike Lee filmography Spike Lee is an 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"". Lee received a Master of Fine Arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, which culminated in his thesis film """", the first student film to be showcased in Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films Festival. Lee's first feature-film ""She's Gotta Have It"" was released"
"other than Dylan himself. He is the father of Spike Lee. Lee was born in Snow Hill, Alabama, the son of Alberta Grace (Edwards), a concert pianist, and Arnold Wadsworth Lee, a musician. With his first wife, Jackie, he had five children, including the film director Spike Lee (born 1957), still photographer David Lee (born 1961), actress Joie Lee (born 1962), and filmmaker Cinqué Lee (born 1966) and has composed original music for many of his son's films, including ""She's Gotta Have It"" (1986), ""School Daze"" (1988), ""Do the Right Thing"" (1989) and ""Mo' Better Blues"" (1990). With his second"
"""CSI"", ""WWE Raw"", and ""Star Trek"", would also remain part of the network's schedule. Three days before the planned launch date, film director Spike Lee won a New York Supreme Court injunction preventing Viacom from using the name ""Spike TV"". Lee claimed that because of his well-known popularity in Hollywood, viewers would therefore assume that he was associated with the new channel. Lee stated in court papers that: ""The media description of this change of name, as well as comments made to me and my wife, confirmed what was obvious—that Spike TV referred to Spike Lee."" Spike Jones Jr., son"
"The name change to ""Spike TV"" was supposed to be official on June 16, 2003. However, on June 13, film director Spike Lee won a New York Supreme Court injunction preventing the name change. Lee claimed that because of his well-known popularity in Hollywood, viewers would therefore assume that he was associated with the new channel. Lee stated in court papers that: ""The media description of this change of name, as well as comments made to me and my wife, confirmed what was obvious—that Spike TV referred to Spike Lee."" The channel had planned an official launch of its new"
"Jason Lee (actor) Jason Michael Lee (born April 25, 1970) is an American actor, photographer, producer, skateboarder and comedian. He is best known for his roles as Earl Hickey in the television comedy series ""My Name Is Earl"", David Seville in the live action/CGI Alvin and the Chipmunks, and the voice of Syndrome in ""The Incredibles"". He is also known for his roles in Kevin Smith films such as ""Mallrats"", ""Chasing Amy"", ""Dogma"", ""Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back"", ""Jersey Girl"", ""Clerks II"", and ""Cop Out"". A former professional skateboarder, Lee is the co-founder and co-owner of Stereo Skateboards, a"
"Right"". White told the KQRS Morning Show on January 24, 2013 that he will appear in Robert Townsend's latest movie with Townsend Entertainment, ""Playin' for Love"". Steve White (actor) Steve White (born March 1961) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his roles in Spike Lee films. He has worked with Lee five times (""Do the Right Thing"" in 1989, ""Mo' Better Blues"" in 1990, ""Malcolm X"" in 1992, ""Clockers"" in 1995, and ""Get on the Bus"" in 1996). From 1992 to 1997, White performed stand-up comedy on Russell Simmons's ""Def Comedy Jam"" on HBO and he also"
"Ice Storm"", ""Hulk"", ""Sense and Sensibility, Life of Pi,"" and ""Brokeback Mountain."" Lee won two Academy Awards for Best Director, for his work on ""Brokeback Mountain,"" and ""Life of Pi"", becoming the first non-white person to win the award. He also won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for ""Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon,"" receiving nominations for Best Picture and Best Director as well. Ang Lee was born in a Waishengren family, in a military dependents' village of the Republic of China Armed Forces, located at Chaochou, Pingtung, a southern agricultural county in Taiwan. Both of Lee's parents moved"
"Pete Chatmon Pete Chatmon (born June 1, 1977 in New York City) is an American filmmaker best known for writing, producing, and directing the feature film ""Premium"", starring Dorian Missick, Zoe Saldana, Hill Harper, Eva Pigford, Frankie Faison, and William Sadler. Chatmon is sometimes referred to as ""The Next Spike Lee"" and produces films under the banner ""A New Wave in American Cinema"". A graduate of New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, Chatmon's work has screened at over 25 film festivals around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival. His short films include ""3D"", ""Chameleon"", and ""Confessions of"
"Spike Jonze Adam Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze (pronounced ""Jones""), is an American filmmaker, photographer, and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. Jonze began his career as a teenager photographing BMX riders and skateboarders for ""Freestylin' Magazine"" and ""Transworld Skateboarding"", and co-founded the youth culture magazine ""Dirt"". Moving into filmmaking, he began shooting street skateboarding films, including the influential ""Video Days"" (1991). Jonze co-founded the skateboard company Girl Skateboards in 1993 with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. Jonze's filmmaking style made him an in-demand director of music videos for much"
"Cinqué Lee Cinqué Lee (born July 1966) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the younger brother of filmmaker Spike Lee. Lee has worked in number of different positions of his older brother's films, as a camera operator, video archivist and most notably as a co-screenwriter in the 1994 film ""Crooklyn"". He also had small roles in ""School Daze"" (1988) and ""Oldboy"" (2013). As an actor, he appeared in the Jim Jarmusch-directed films ""Mystery Train"" (1989) and ""Coffee and Cigarettes"" (2003), and a number of other independent films. Lee is also a filmmaker himself, directing, producing and writing the"
"have since broken up. Spike Jonze Adam Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze (pronounced ""Jones""), is an American filmmaker, photographer, and actor, whose work includes music videos, commercials, film and television. Jonze began his career as a teenager photographing BMX riders and skateboarders for ""Freestylin' Magazine"" and ""Transworld Skateboarding"", and co-founded the youth culture magazine ""Dirt"". Moving into filmmaking, he began shooting street skateboarding films, including the influential ""Video Days"" (1991). Jonze co-founded the skateboard company Girl Skateboards in 1993 with riders Rick Howard and Mike Carroll. Jonze's filmmaking style made him an in-demand director of"
"James Marsters James Wesley Marsters (born August 20, 1962) is an American actor, musician and voice actor. He is best known for his role as the English vampire Spike in The WB series ""Buffy the Vampire Slayer"" and its spin-off, ""Angel"". Since then, he has played the alien super villain Brainiac on the Superman-inspired series ""Smallville"", Captain John Hart on ""Torchwood"" and terrorist Barnabas Greeley in Syfy's ""Caprica"". He appeared in a supporting role in the film ""P.S. I Love You"", as Victor Hesse in the ""Hawaii Five-0"" reboot, Victor Stein in the Marvel Comics series ""Runaways"" and as the"
"Spike Lee film ""School Daze"" (1988), and undertook work for the soundtracks for a number of other films. Vick died at his Manhattan home of a heart attack on November 13, 1987. He was memorialised by the tune ""Did You See Harold Vick?"", which Sonny Rollins wrote and featured on his album ""This Is What I Do"" (2000). With Walter Bishop Jr. With Jack McDuff With John Patton With Joe Chambers With Grant Green With Richard ""Groove"" Holmes With Sam Jones With Les McCann With Jimmy McGriff With Duke Pearson With Charles Tolliver With McCoy Tyner With Johnny Hammond With"
"2015, Keach became a Polish citizen. He suffered a mild stroke in March 2009, from which he has made a full recovery. Stacy Keach Walter Stacy Keach Jr. (born June 2, 1941) is an American actor of stage, film, and television. Highly prolific, he has played mainly dramatic roles throughout his career, often in law enforcement or as a private detective. His most prominent role was as Mickey Spillane's fictional detective Mike Hammer, which he played in numerous stand-alone television films and at least three different television series throughout the 1980s and 1990s. The role earned him a Golden Globe"
"the U.S., various acts of vandalism, assaults and crimes were connected in part to alleged revenge for the shooting of Trayvon Martin. Film director Spike Lee retweeted to his 200,000 Twitter followers an address in Sanford, Florida, erroneously purported to be Zimmerman's, which forced a family out of their home to avoid harassment after they received hate mail and unwanted visits from reporters. Lee was criticized for his retweet and he later issued an apology for having tweeted the wrong address. Lee also ""settled financially"" with the Florida couple for an undisclosed amount. Professor Alan Dershowitz criticized the probable cause"
"has historically related to European and Native American ancestry among African Americans, and the tangled history of slave societies, and benefits that some mixed-race children received from white fathers. The topic of behavior related to differing skin tones has since been treated by other artists and writers, and the issue of skin bias has been studied as a sociological and psychological issue among academics. Despite the calls for Black Power and ""Black is beautiful"" in the mid-twentieth century, studies have found that skin tone bias continues. It is more openly discussed, studied and, at times, mocked. The director Spike Lee"
"Spike Lee, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Pedro Almodóvar, and Andy Warhol. The film, whose title (also the name of Dorff's character) alludes to legendary director Cecil B. DeMille, is loosely based on the 1974 kidnapping of Patricia Hearst; Hearst has a cameo role. As with all of Waters' films, it was shot in Baltimore, Maryland. The film was given a limited theatrical release on August 11, 2000 by Artisan Entertainment. For her role as Honey Whitlock, Griffith was nominated for Worst Actress at the 21st Golden Raspberry Awards, where she lost to Madonna for ""The Next Best Thing"". Despite lukewarm response"
"films ""Nowhere Fast"" (1997), ""Sink Like a Stone"" (2000, short film), ""UR4 Given"" (2004), ""Window on Your Present"" (2010) and ""Burn Out the Day"" (2010, co-directed with Sean Bohary). Cinqué Lee Cinqué Lee (born July 1966) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the younger brother of filmmaker Spike Lee. Lee has worked in number of different positions of his older brother's films, as a camera operator, video archivist and most notably as a co-screenwriter in the 1994 film ""Crooklyn"". He also had small roles in ""School Daze"" (1988) and ""Oldboy"" (2013). As an actor, he appeared in the"
"wife, attorney Tonya Lewis, in 1992, and they were married a year later in New York. They have one daughter, Satchel, born in 1994, and a son, Jackson, born in 1997. Spike Lee is a fan of the American baseball team the New York Yankees, basketball team the New York Knicks, and the English football team Arsenal. One of the documentaries in ESPN's ""30 for 30"" series, ""Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks"", focuses partly on Lee's interaction with Miller at Knicks games in Madison Square Garden. In June 2003, Lee sought an injunction against Spike TV"
"at the age of 48. His cause of death was noted as a heart attack. Robert Isaac Lee Robert ""Bob"" Isaac Lee (August 16, 1956 – October 20, 2004) was a Chinese American film and television actor. Robert was born Robert Alexander Isaac Lee in Gansu, China; he and his family had emigrated from China to the United States when Lee was 8 years old, moving to Sacramento, California. Lee married Jenny Anne Wong on September 5, 1989. They had 3 children together: 1 son born 1990, a daughter in 1992 and a second son in 1994. Both Robert and"
"Damien Leake Damien Leake (born August 12, 1952 in The Bronx, New York City) is an American actor and record holding masters track and field athlete. Starting with a role in 1973's ""Serpico"", Leake has had a continuous career appearing in some 70 motion pictures, plus numerous television and stage acting roles. Through the 1980's he was typecast as a ""a tender, sensitive . . . half-crazed killer"" including roles in ""Death Wish"" and ""Apocalypse Now"". Leake has branched out to other jobs related to the entertainment industry. He claims to having been a singer/ dancer/ director/ musician/ composer/ musical"
"used the name as his alias when checking into hotels. Scott Stuckey Scott Stuckey (born March 23, 1964) is a filmmaker and record producer from Washington D.C.. Stuckey is best known as the creator of the cult TV show Pancake Mountain as well as his work with singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt. Stuckey was born in Eastman, GA in 1964. His mother was an English teacher and father a Congressman from Georgia’s 8th district. His grandfather started Stuckey’s, a chain of restaurant’s on the highway. The family moved to DC in 1966. Stuckey had trouble in school due to a learning disability"
"not make an antisemitic film because Jews run Hollywood, and ""that's a fact"". His 1997 documentary ""4 Little Girls"", about the children killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963, was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. On May 2, 2007, the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival honored Spike Lee with the San Francisco Film Society's Directing Award. In 2008, he received the Wexner Prize. In 2013, he won The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the richest prizes in the American arts worth $300,000. In 2015, Lee received an"
"Jason Scott Lee Jason Scott Lee (, born November 19, 1966) is an American actor and martial artist. Lee is perhaps best known for his roles as Bruce Lee (no relation) in the 1993 martial arts film """", and Mowgli in Disney's 1994 live-action adaptation of ""The Jungle Book"". Lee was born in Los Angeles. He was raised in Hawaii and is of Chinese descent. He attended school at Pearl City High School. He has been married to Diana Lee since 2008. Lee started his acting career with small roles in ""Born in East L.A."" (1987) and ""Back to the"
"was born on Mars on June 26, 2044. He is 27 years old. Spike has fluffy green hair and brown eyes; his right eye is artificial. He is 6'1"" tall and weighs 155 lbs. Spike is a heavy smoker, and is frequently seen smoking regardless of poor weather and the presence of ""no smoking"" signs. A skilled martial artist who practices Jeet Kune Do, Spike is a devout follower of the philosophies of Bruce Lee. He also owns a converted asteroid racer called the Swordfish II. During gunfights, he often uses a Jericho 941. In Spike's younger days before joining"
"of purpose."" ""New York Times"" critic A.O. Scott also offered faint praise, writing, ""This is, all in all, one of Mr. Lee’s cooler joints, meaning both that it is suavely stylish and feels detached from its own emotions and motivations. It’s not especially horrifying, or even very thought-provoking. It is touching, however, because it represents one frequently misunderstood, intermittently great filmmaker’s tribute to another."" Da Sweet Blood of Jesus Da Sweet Blood of Jesus is a 2014 American horror film directed by Spike Lee. The plot is about a wealthy anthropologist who is stabbed by an ancient African dagger and"
"This resulted in the production of Hemoxygen, a range of nutritional supplements. In 2009, Conan made a brief appearance in an episode of the popular American crime series ""Numb3rs"" and has since been developing a number of projects for his comeback to the film industry. <br> Lee also voiced several characters in the 2012 video game Sleeping Dogs. Conan Lee Conan Lee Yuen-Ba 李元霸 born Lloyd Hutchinson, is an Asian-American film actor and martial artist. Conan Lee was born in Hong Kong (1959), but grew up in Queens, New York as Lloyd Hutchinson. During this period he was trained in"
"Steve White (actor) Steve White (born March 1961) is an American actor and comedian, best known for his roles in Spike Lee films. He has worked with Lee five times (""Do the Right Thing"" in 1989, ""Mo' Better Blues"" in 1990, ""Malcolm X"" in 1992, ""Clockers"" in 1995, and ""Get on the Bus"" in 1996). From 1992 to 1997, White performed stand-up comedy on Russell Simmons's ""Def Comedy Jam"" on HBO and he also had a recurring role on the ABC comedy series ""Hangin' With Mr. Cooper"". Steve was most recently one of the guest announcers on ""The Price Is"
"16, 2018, he set the American M65 record in the 100 meters, 12.31 +1.3 in Grass Valley, California. Damien Leake Damien Leake (born August 12, 1952 in The Bronx, New York City) is an American actor and record holding masters track and field athlete. Starting with a role in 1973's ""Serpico"", Leake has had a continuous career appearing in some 70 motion pictures, plus numerous television and stage acting roles. Through the 1980's he was typecast as a ""a tender, sensitive . . . half-crazed killer"" including roles in ""Death Wish"" and ""Apocalypse Now"". Leake has branched out to other"
"Richard Lee to Brandon Paris in 1998 as he believed it was like starting life all over and a way of leaving all the evils in his past behind. He chose ""Brandon"" as his first name because of his most loved actor and martial artist Bruce Lee, whose son was named Brandon. he chose the well known city ""Paris"" as his last name because he felt it was more marketable and thought it would be much too hard to market a popular, unoriginal Chinese last name ""Lee"". Brandon also changed his appearance by losing 126 lb (from down to )."
"Brandon Lee (pornographic actor) Brandon Lee (born May 16, 1979), is an Asian American gay pornographic film actor of Filipino descent. He is regarded as the first gay Asian porn star and arguably the most popular Asian pornographic actor in contemporary gay male culture. Lee started in the industry in 1997 at age 18 after being discovered by adult film director Chi Chi Larue at a bathhouse. He intentionally chose the name of actor Brandon Lee as his porn name. His first movies were under Catalina Video for the Asian niche market but he crossed over into the mainstream gay"