Spike Lee
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 67 |
Date of birth | March 20,1957 |
Zodiac sign | Pisces |
Born | Atlanta |
Georgia | |
United States | |
Height | 168 (cm) |
Spouse | Tonya Lewis Lee |
Residence | New York City |
Job | Actor |
Teacher | |
Film Producer | |
Screenwriter | |
Film Editor | |
Television producer | |
Music video director | |
Television director | |
Academic | |
Education | John Dewey High School |
Morehouse College | |
Clark Atlanta University | |
Tisch School Of The Arts | |
New York University | |
Official site | instagram.com |
Children | Satchel Lee |
Jackson Lee | |
Siblings | Joie Lee |
Cinqué Lee | |
David Lee | |
Arnold Lee | |
Chris Lee | |
Parents | Bill Lee |
Jacquelyn Lee | |
Nominations | Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay) |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 402080 |
Spike Lee's gotta have it
Giant Steps to Change the World
Uplift the race
Please, Puppy, Please
Best Seat in the House: A Basketball Memoir
Spike Lee
Miracle at St. Anna: The Motion Picture
Fight the Power
Mo' Better Blues
Spike
Malcolm X
Bamboozled
Inside Man
25th Hour
School Daze
Jungle Fever
Chi-Raq
Oldboy
He Got Game
Crooklyn
Mo' Better Blues
Clockers
4 Little Girls
Miracle at St. Anna
Summer of Sam
Girl 6
She Hate Me
Red Hook Summer
Get on the Bus
Da Sweet Blood of Jesus
The Original Kings of Comedy
Bad 25
Jim Brown: All-American
Kobe Doin' Work
A Huey P. Newton Story
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall
Sucker Free City
Joe's Bed- Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads
Pass Over
Love & Basketball
John Leguizamo's Freak
Lumière and Company
All the Invisible Children
The Best Man
Rodney King
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
New Jersey Drive
Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth
Last Hustle in Brooklyn
Lisa Picard Is Famous
Da Brick
Drop Squad
Jerrod Carmichael: Love At The Store
Jesus Children of America
We Wuz Robbed
Saint John of Las Vegas
The Concert for New York City
Ghostwriter
Do the Right Thing
She's Gotta Have It
Chappelle's Show
Lincoln's Dilemma
Pretend It's a City
Academy Honorary Award
Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature
Honorary César
Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award
Prix du Public UBS
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Director
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture
NAACP Image Award – Hall of Fame Award
MTV Movie Silver Bucket of Excellence Award
Gotham Independent Film Tribute Award
Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing - Nonfiction Programming
Humanitarian Award
Black Movie Award for Outstanding Achievement in Directing
Orizzonti Doc Award
The BET Honors Media Award
Black Movie Award for The Ossie Davis Humanitarian
Academy Award for Best Writing (Adapted Screenplay)
Spike Lee Life story
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee is an American film director, producer, screenwriter 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.
Biography
Spike lee is an american film director.Producer.Screenwriter.Actor.And professor.He was born on march 20.1957 in atlanta.Georgia.He is the son of bill lee.A jazz musician.And jacquelyn lee.He has two siblings.Joie and cinque le.Ehe is married to tonya lewis lee and they have two children.Satchel and jacksno.Physical Characteristics
Spike lee is 5 feet 5 inches tall and weighs around 150 pounds.He has brown eyes and a slim body type.Education and Career
Spike lee attended morehouse college in atlanta.Georgia.Where he majored in mass ocmmunication.After graduating.He attended new york university s tisch school of the arts.Where he earned a master of fine arts in film production.He began his career as a film director in 1986 with his first feature film.She s gotta have it.Since then.He has directed.Produced.And written numerous films.Includign do the right thing.Malcolm x.Nad inside man.He has also acted in several films.Including jungle fever.He got game.And chi-raq.Success
Spike lee has ahcieved great success in his career.He has won numerous awards.Including an academy award for best adapted screenplay for lbackkklansman in 2019.He has also been nmoinated for two golden globe awards and two emmy awards.Zodiac Sign
Spike lee is a pisces.Nationality
Spike lee is an american.Most Important Event
The most important event in spike lee s career was his academy award win for best adapted screenplay for blackkkalnsman in 2019.This was a historic moment.As he became the first african-american to win an oscar for best adapted screenplay.Michael K Williams: Drug dealer pleads guilty over The Wire actor's death
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Jai Bhim: The Indian film that overtook The Godfather on IMDB
Jai Bhim, a Tamil language film, has been rated The Top film by users on IMDB, beating classics such as The Shawshank Redemption and The Godfather . It's the latest in a line of hard-hitting Indian movies telling stories of repression against Dalits who are at the bottom of a rigid Hindu caste hierarchy, writes film journalist Aseem Chhabra.
At the beginning of Jai Bhim, police officers are shown separating a group of suspects based on their caste.
Those who are from the dominant castes are asked to leave, while others who are Dalits (formerly untouchables) or belong to tribal communities are asked to stay back. Later, police file false charges against those in The Second group.
It's a stark, disturbing scene, with frightened men standing in The Corner somewhat aware of their fate, a reminder that such activities occur routinely, and how precarious are the lives of the marginalised, especially Dalits, in small towns and rural India.
Dalits Make Up about 20% of India's population, and despite laws to protect them they continue to face discrimination and violence.
Jai Bhim's title translates to " Long Live Bhim" a slogan made popular by The Followers of BR Ambedkar, a Dalit scholar and leader, who was The Chief architect of India's constitution and also the country's first law minister.
Directed by TJ Gnanavel, and backed by Tamil star Suriya , The Film tells the True Story of a crusading lawyer - Played by Suriya - who fought for a petition filed by a pregnant woman whose husband was placed in police custody and later declared missing.
Jai Bhim is part of a new movement in Tamil Cinema where A Number of young filmmakers are narrating stories of repression against Dalits.
" In The Last 30 years, beginning with the observance of Ambedkar's centenary in 1991, the Dalit movement has been growing in Tamil Nadu , " said film historian S Theodore Baskaran.
" Forgotten Dalit ideologues of the 20Th Century were redeemed from history. The ideas of [social activist and politician] Periyar and Ambedkar spread through The Writings of many Dalit writers. In the Last Decade , some of The Writers moved to cinema and made films. But they used the usual ingredients like songs, fights and melodrama. "
Dalit narratives have also found space in independent or indie films in other Indian languages, including Anhey Gorhey Da Daan (Punjabi), exploring the lives of Dalit Sikhs; Masaan (Hindi), a romance between a young man from A Family of crematorium workers and an upper caste girl; and Fandry and Sairat (both in Marathi). The Last two films were directed by Nagraj Manjule , a Dalit himself.
Fandry narrates The Story of Young Boy whose family catches pigs in The Village , and his Unrequited Love for an upper caste girl. Sairat, an inter-caste romantic musical, was a huge Box Office success. Also in this group is the Tamil indie, Pebbles (Koozhangal), India's official entry for the 2022 Oscar for Best International Film.
But now there are many filmmakers in mainstream Tamil Cinema whose protagonists are Dalits - who after a long periods of discrimination fight for their rights. And when the legal recourse does not end their sufferings, they are willing to take The Fight to a physical level.
The Directors include veteran filmmaker Vetrimaaran, who made Visaaranai, a 2015 film about the plight of Tamil migrants in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh and Asuran, a plot inspired by a massacre of Dalits. Mari Selvaraj and Pa Ranjith, both in their late thirties, are two key directors who have created narratives where the Dalit man is the central character.
" The representation of Dalit characters was painful, " Dalit filmmaker Ranjith, often referred to as the Spike Lee of the Tamil film industry, told The Wire in a 2020 interview, referring to earlier Tamil films. " Either they were written out, or just their inclusion in The Story was considered 'revolutionary. '"
" In this context, I had to reflect on what my stories could say, " he added. " I wanted to show that my culture itself is based on discrimination and violence…Today, directors are more conscious when they write Dalit characters. "
Ranjith produced director Mari Selvaraj's first film Periyerum Perumal. The Film opens with a card that reads " Caste and religion are against humanity. " The Film 's protagonist wants to become a lawyer like Ambedkar.
Towards The Middle of Periyerum Perumal, Selvaraj has a group of men dancing to a 1983 film song Poradada. Composed by Ilaiyaraaja, a legendary musician and a Dalit himself, The Song 's lyrics include: " We will take over your throne/… Our cry for victory will be heard/ Our light will fill up This World / We the proletarians will fight back. "
The Song also plays in the background in Selvaraj's Karnan (2021) and is now referred to as a Dalit anthem.
Ranjith's films were boosted with the support of Rajnikanth, the superstar of Tamil Cinema . The Actor was moved by the stories narrated to him and agreed to play The Lead in Kabali (The Tale of a violent gangster world of Tamil migrants in Malaysia) and Kaala (set in Dharavi, Asia's biggest slum located in Mumbai, with a large Tamil migrant population).
And in his latest film, the nearly three-hours-long Sarpatta Parambarai, Ranjith explores the boxing culture among Dalits in Chennai city, deeply influenced by Mohammad Ali , and his activism, whether it was against the Vietnam War or racism in the US.
There are some who feel that the representation of Dalit characters in Tamil Cinema does not deserve all the praise that it receives. Leena Manimekalai , director of the 2019 film Maadathy: An Unfairy Tale - a disturbing story about a Young Woman from an ostracised Dalit Community - feels the new cinema has not exactly moved The Needle .
" It is feeding into the same hero, hyper masculine, omnipresent, 'larger than life' saviour narratives, " Manimekalai said.
" I still see women characters portrayed as mere props or cheerleaders to their husbands/lovers and the underprivileged communities 'waiting' for their heroes to save them with their axes, guns and sickles, from their generations of discrimination. "
But it is clear The Audience is watching the new cinema. Jai Bhim did not open in theatres So There are no Box Office numbers to support its popularity. But its 9. 6 user rating on has propelled it to The Number one slot film on the online database.
With inputs by Sudha G Tilak
Aseem Chhabra is a freelance film writer and author, most recently, of Irrfan Khan : The Man , The Dreamer , The Star .
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