Spike Lee, orig. Shelton Jackson Lee, (born March 20, 1957, Atlanta, Ga., U.S.), U.S. film director and writer. He grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and earned a master’s degree in film at New York University. The comedy She’s Gotta Have It (1986) brought him attention, but it was Do the Right Thing (1989), a portrait of racial tensions in Brooklyn, that brought him widespread acclaim. Many of his films, which he often wrote or cowrote, focused on aspects of African American life, including School Daze (1988), Jungle Fever (1991), Crooklyn (1994), and He Got Game (1998). The epic Malcolm X (1992) and the documentaries 4 Little Girls (1997) and The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) showed Lee’s versatility as a director, as did the documentary miniseries When the Levees Broke (2006). Lee’s notable later films included Inside Man (2006), Chi-Raq (2015), BlacKkKlansman (2018, Academy Award for best adapted screenplay), and Da 5 Bloods (2020).
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Academy Award, any of a number of awards presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, located in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., to recognize achievement in the film industry. The awards were first presented in 1929, and winners receive a gold-plated statuette commonly
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Directing, the craft of controlling the evolution of a performance out of material composed or assembled by an author. The performance may be live, as in a theatre and in some broadcasts, or it may be recorded, as in motion pictures and the majority of broadcast material. The term is also used in
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Acting, the performing art in which movement, gesture, and intonation are used to realize a fictional character for the stage, for motion pictures, or for television. (Read Lee Strasberg’s 1959 Britannica essay on acting.) Acting is generally agreed to be a matter less of mimicry, exhibitionism, or
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Film, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. (Read Martin Scorsese’s Britannica essay on film