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".[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]
In addition to his feature-film credits, Lee has directed a number of music videos by artists such as Prince, Michael Jackson, Anita Baker and Eminem. 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]
Filmography
| Year | Film | Credited as | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | Actor | Role | ||
| 1979 | Last Hustle in Brooklyn (short film) | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1980 | The Answer (short film) | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1981 | Sarah (short film) | Yes | Yes | |||
| 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 |
| Lonely in America | Yes | Himself | ||||
| 1991 | Jungle Fever | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Cyrus |
| 1992 | Malcolm X | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Shorty |
| 1994 | Crooklyn | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Snuffy |
| Drop Squad | Yes | Yes | Himself | |||
| 1995 | Clockers | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Chucky |
| Lumière and Company (segment) | Yes | Yes | Himself | |||
| New Jersey Drive | Executive producer | |||||
| Tales from the Hood | Yes | |||||
| 1996 | Girl 6 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Jimmy | |
| Get on the Bus | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 1997 | 4 Little Girls (documentary) | Yes | Yes | |||
| 1998 | He Got Game | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 1999 | Summer of Sam | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | John Jeffries |
| The Best Man | Yes | |||||
| 2000 | The Original Kings of Comedy (documentary) | Yes | Yes | |||
| Bamboozled | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| Afrocentricity | Executive producer | |||||
| Lisa Picard Is Famous | Yes | Himself | ||||
| Love & Basketball | Yes | |||||
| 2001 | 3 A.M. | Yes | Yes | Filmmaker | ||
| Come Rain or Come Shine (short film) | Yes | |||||
| 2002 | 25th Hour | Yes | Yes | |||
| Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (segment: "We Wuz Robbed") | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2003 | Good Fences | Executive producer | ||||
| 2004 | She Hate Me | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| 2005 | Dream Street | Yes | ||||
| All the Invisible Children (segment: "Jesus Children of America") | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2006 | Inside Man | Yes | ||||
| 2008 | Miracle at St. Anna | Yes | Yes | |||
| Passing Strange (Broadway show) | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2009 | Saint John of Las Vegas | Yes | ||||
| 2011 | You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You | Yes | ||||
| Pariah | Executive producer | |||||
| 2012 | Red Hook Summer | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Mookie |
| Bad 25 (documentary) | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 2013 | Oldboy | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2014 | Da Sweet Blood of Jesus | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||
| Evolution of a Criminal | Executive producer | |||||
| Manos Sucias | Executive producer | |||||
| 2015 | Cronies | Executive producer | ||||
| The Girl Is in Trouble | Executive producer | |||||
| Chi-Raq | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2016 | Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (documentary) | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2 Fists Up (documentary)[5] | Yes | |||||
| 2017 | Rodney King (stand-up special) | Yes | Yes | |||
| Brave: Visions for Moncler (short film) | Yes | |||||
| 2018 | Pass Over | Yes | Yes | |||
| BlacKkKlansman | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||
Television
| Year | Title | Credited as | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | Actor | Role | ||
| 1986 | Saturday Night Live | Yes | Mars Blackmon | |||
| 1990 | Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella (documentary) | Yes | ||||
| 1992 | Ghostwriter (episode: "Into the Comics: Part 1") | Yes | Special Agent Pete | |||
| 1998 | Freak (stage show) | Yes | ||||
| 1999 | Pavarotti and Friends for the Guatemala and Kosovo (documentary) | Yes | ||||
| 2001 | A Huey P. Newton Story (stage show) | Yes | ||||
| 2002 | Jim Brown: All-American (documentary) | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2004 | Sucker Free City | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2005 | Miracle's Boys (episodes: "New Charlie" and "Bond of Brothers") | Yes | ||||
| 2006 | When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (documentary) | Yes | Yes | |||
| Shark (pilot) | Yes | |||||
| 2009 | Kobe Doin' Work (documentary) | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2010 | If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (documentary) | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2011 | Da Brick (unaired pilot) | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2013 | Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (stage show) | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2014 | Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife (stand-up special) | Yes | Executive producer | |||
| Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store (stand-up special) | Yes | |||||
| 2017–present | She's Gotta Have It | Yes | Yes | Executive producer | Yes | Joe the bartender |
Music videos
Video game
| Year | Film | Credited as | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Director | Writer | Producer | ||
| 2015 | NBA 2K16 | Yes | Yes | Executive producer |
Collaborations
References
- General
- "Spike Lee > Filmography". Allmovie. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
- "Spike Lee – Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
- Specific
- ↑ "Spike Lee Biography – Yahoo! Movies". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
- ↑ "Spike Lee – Profile, Latest News and Related Articles". E!. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
- ↑ Curtis, Bryan (2008-06-01). "Bro Knows Football". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
- ↑ Black, Johnny (August 2002). "The Greatest Songs Ever! Fight the Power". Blender. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
- ↑ Nemcik, Marc (May 31, 2016). "Watch: Spike Lee's ESPN Documentary 2 Fists Up, On Protests at University of Missouri". Filmmaker. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
- ↑ "Revolution – Arrested Development - Music Video". MTV. Retrieved 2008-02-05.