Spike Lee

Highest Rated:
100% A Huey P. Newton Story (2001)
Lowest Rated:
14% Drop Squad (1994)
Birthday:
Mar 20, 1957
Birthplace:
Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Bio:
While African-American filmmakers have been a staple of the cinematic landscape since the pioneering work of Oscar Micheaux during the '20s, none have had the same cultural or artistic impact as Spike Lee. As a writer, director, actor, producer, author, and entrepreneur, Lee has revolutionized the…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 14% - 100%
Number of Movies: 57
Box Office Since 2001: $148.9M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 Oldboy
  • Director
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2012 58% Red Hook Summer
  • Mr. Mookie
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
$0.3M
2012 31% A Man's Story
  • Actor
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2012 90% Bad 25
  • Director
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2011 On The Shoulders Of Giants
  • Actor
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2011 Brooklyn Boheme
  • Actor
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2010 If God Is Willing And Da Creek Don't Rise
  • Director
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2009 Spike Lee's Game Day with Kobe Bryant
  • Director
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2009 Kobe Doin' Work
  • Director
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2009 PoliWood
  • Actor
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2008 34% Miracle at St. Anna
  • Director
  • Producer
$7.8M
2008 40 X 15
  • Actor
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2008 100% Passing Strange
  • Producer
  • Director
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2007 Lights, Action, Music
  • Actor
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2007 Mariah Carey - The Adventures of Mimi
  • Director
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2006 97% When the Levees Broke
  • Producer
  • Director
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2006 All the Invisible Children
  • Director
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2006 86% Inside Man
  • Director
$88.4M
2005 Miracle's Boys
  • Director
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2005 92% How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company
  • Actor
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2004 19% She Hate Me
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Screenwriter
$81.4k
2004 Sucker Free City
  • Director
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2002 86% Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
  • Director
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2002 57% Jim Brown: All-American
  • Director
  • Producer
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2002 78% 25th Hour
  • Producer
  • Director
$12.8M
2001 3 A.M.
  • Producer
  • Actor
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2001 100% A Huey P. Newton Story
  • Director
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2000 48% Bamboozled
  • Director
  • Producer
  • Screenwriter
$1.9M
2000 44% Lisa Picard is Famous
  • Actor
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2000 82% Love and Basketball
  • Producer
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2000 86% The Original Kings of Comedy
  • Director
$37.7M
1999 50% Summer of Sam
  • Screenwriter
  • John Jeffries
  • Director
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1999 It's Black Entertainment!
  • Actor
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1998 80% He Got Game
  • Screenwriter
  • Director
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1998 Freak
  • Director
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1998 Pavarotti and Friends - For The Children Of Liberia
  • Director
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1997 100% 4 Little Girls
  • Producer
  • Director
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1997 Century of Black Cinema
  • Actor
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1996 87% Get on the Bus
  • Director
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1996 33% Girl 6
  • Producer
  • Director
  • Jimmy
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1996 Fine Art of Separating People From Their Money
  • Interviewee
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1995 68% Clockers
  • Chucky
  • Director
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1995 100% Lumière and Company
  • Actor
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1994 98% Hoop Dreams
  • Himself (Film director)
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1994 14% Drop Squad
  • Himself
  • Director
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1994 76% Crooklyn
  • Director
  • Snuffy
  • Screenwriter
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1993 The Last Party
  • Actor
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1992 91% Malcolm X
  • Director
  • Shorty
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1991 86% Jungle Fever
  • Cyrus
  • Director
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1991 Lonely In America
  • Himself
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1990 73% Mo' Better Blues
  • Director
  • Giant
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1990 Mandela in America
  • Actor
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1989 96% Do the Right Thing
  • Director
  • Screenwriter
  • Mookie
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1989 First Works
  • Actor
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1988 58% School Daze
  • Half-Pint
  • Director
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1986 93% She's Gotta Have It
  • Director
  • Mars Blackman
  • Screenwriter
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1983 Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
  • Director
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Quotes from Spike Lee's Characters

    1. Mookie: Dago, wop, guinea, garlic-breath, pizza-slingin', spaghetti-bendin', Vic Damone, Perry Como, Luciano Pavarotti, Sole Mio, nonsingin' motherfucker.
    From Do the Right Thing. Submitted by David E (4 months ago)
    1. Mookie: Pino, fuck you, fuck your fuckin' pizza, and fuck Frank Sinatra.
    2. Pino: Yeah? Well fuck you, too, and fuck Michael Jackson.
    From Do the Right Thing. Submitted by Chris P (2 years ago)
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