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 crime dramedy BlacKkKlansman (2018), he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Award.
He has also written and directed films such as School Daze (1988), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Bamboozled (2000), 25th Hour (2002), Inside Man (2006), Chi-Raq (2015), Da 5 Bloods (2020), and Highest 2 Lowest (2025). Lee has also acted in eleven of his feature films. He is also known for directing numerous documentary projects, including 4 Little Girls (1997), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. He directed the HBO series When the Levees Broke (2006), which won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program and Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. He also directed the HBO documentary If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010) and the David Byrne concert film American Utopia (2020).
Lee has received several honours, including the Honorary BAFTA Award in 2002, an Honorary César in 2003, the Academy Honorary Award in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. Five of his films have been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". He has received a Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center as well as the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. His films have featured breakthrough performances from actors such as Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L. Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Delroy Lindo, John Turturro, and John David Washington.
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| 1 | Highest 2 Lowest (2025) Recently popular movies | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 2 | Sidney (2022) | Self | - | - |
| 3 | Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist (2021) | Self | 8 | |
| 4 | David Byrne's American Utopia (2020) | Director / Writer | 7.5 | |
| 5 | Da 5 Bloods (2020) | Director / Writer | 7.3 | |
| 6 | BlacKkKlansman (2018) Oscars winners 2019 | Director / Writer | 7.9 | |
| 7 | Pass Over (2018) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 8 | Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018) | Self | - | - |
| 9 | Unbanned: The Legend of AJ1 (2018) | Self | - | - |
| 10 | Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 11 | Chi-Raq (2015) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 12 | Champs (2015) | Self | - | - |
| 13 | Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2015) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 14 | Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife (2014) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 15 | Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store (2014) | Director / Writer | 7.3 | |
| 16 | Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (2013) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 17 | Oldboy (2013) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 18 | Bad 25 (2012) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 19 | Guest (2011) | Self | - | - |
| 20 | A Man's Story (2011) | Self | - | - |
| 21 | Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks (2010) | Self | 8.5 | |
| 22 | Kobe Doin' Work (2009) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 23 | Miracle at St. Anna (2008) | Director / Writer | 6.2 | |
| 24 | All the Invisible Children (2006) | Director / Writer | 10 | |
| 25 | Inside Man (2006) | Director / Writer | 7.5 | |
| 26 | Street Fight (2005) | Self | - | - |
| 27 | Sucker Free City (2004) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 28 | She Hate Me (2004) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 29 | Jim Brown: All-American (2002) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 30 | Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 31 | 25th Hour (2002) | Director / Writer | 7.7 | |
| 32 | 3 A.M. (2001) | Filmmaker | - | - |
| 33 | A Huey P. Newton Story (2001) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 34 | The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 35 | Lisa Picard Is Famous (2000) | Spike Lee | - | - |
| 36 | Michael Jordan to the Max (2000) | Self | - | - |
| 37 | Bamboozled (2000) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 38 | Summer of Sam (1999) | Director / Writer | 5 | |
| 39 | John Leguizamo: Freak (1998) | Director / Writer | - | - |
| 40 | He Got Game (1998) | Director / Writer | 7.6 | |
| 41 | HIStory on Film, Volume II (1997) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 42 | 4 Little Girls (1997) Oscars 1998 | Director / Writer | 9 | |
| 43 | Get on the Bus (1996) | Director / Writer | 8 | |
| 44 | When We Were Kings (1996) | Self | 8.3 | |
| 45 | Girl 6 (1996) | Director / Writer | 6 | |
| 46 | Clockers (1995) | Director / Writer | 9 | |
| 47 | Hoop Dreams (1994) | Self | 6.8 | |
| 48 | Crooklyn (1994) | Director / Writer | 10 | |
| 49 | Malcolm X (1992) | Director / Writer | 7.7 | |
| 50 | Jungle Fever (1991) | Director / Writer | 7 | |
| 51 | Mo' Better Blues (1990) | Director / Writer | 6.5 | |
| 52 | Do the Right Thing (1989) | Director / Writer | 7.5 | |
| 53 | Public Enemy: Fight the Power... Live! (1989) | - | - | - |
| 54 | School Daze (1988) | Director / Writer | 10 | |
| 55 | She's Gotta Have It (1986) | Director / Writer | 6.5 |

