Spike Lee filmography

Spike Lee in 2007

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
Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Actor	Role
1983	Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads	Yes	Yes	Yes
1986	She's Gotta Have It	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mars Blackmon
1986	Saturday Night Live				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
1991	Jungle Fever	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Cyrus
1991	Lonely in America				Yes	Himself
1992	Malcolm X	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Shorty
1992	Ghostwriter Episode: "Into the Comics: Part 1"				Yes	Special Agent Pete
1994	Crooklyn	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Snuffy
1994	Drop Squad			Yes	Yes	Himself
1995	Clockers	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Chucky
	Lumière and Company	Yes			Yes	Himself
	New Jersey Drive			Yes (Executive producer)
	Tales from the Hood				Yes
1996	Girl 6	Yes		Yes	Yes	Jimmy
1996	Get on the Bus	Yes		Yes
1997	4 Little Girls	Yes		Yes
1998	He Got Game	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Freak	Yes
	Pavarotti and Friends for the Children of Liberia	Yes
1999	Summer of Sam	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	John Jeffries
	Pavarotti and Friends for the Guatemala and Kosovo	Yes
	The Best Man			Yes
2000	The Original Kings of Comedy	Yes		Yes
	Bamboozled	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Afrocentricity			Yes (Executive producer)
	Lisa Picard Is Famous				Yes	Himself
	Love & Basketball			Yes
2001	A Huey P. Newton Story	Yes
	The Concert for New York City	Yes
	3 A.M.			Yes	Yes	Filmmaker
2002	25th Hour	Yes		Yes
	Jim Brown: All-American	Yes		Yes
	Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet segment: "We Wuz Robbed"	Yes		Yes
2003	Good Fences			Yes (Executive producer)
2004	She Hate Me	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Sucker Free City	Yes		Yes
	C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America			Yes
2005	Dream Street			Yes
	Miracle's Boys episodes: "New Charlie" and "Bond of Brothers"	Yes
	All the Invisible Children segment: "Jesus Children of America"	Yes		Yes
2006	Inside Man	Yes
	When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts	Yes		Yes
	Shark (pilot)	Yes
2008	Miracle at St. Anna	Yes		Yes
2008	Passing Strange	Yes		Yes
2009	Kobe Doin' Work	Yes		Yes
2009	Saint John of Las Vegas			Yes
2010	If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise	Yes		Yes
2011	You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You			Yes
2011	Pariah			Yes (Executive producer)
2012	Red Hook Summer	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Mookie
2012	Bad 25	Yes		Yes
2013	Oldboy	Yes		Yes
2013	Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth	Yes		Yes
2014	Da Sweet Blood of Jesus	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Evolution of a Criminal			Yes (Executive producer)
	Manos Sucias			Yes (Executive producer)
	Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife	Yes		Yes (Executive producer)
	Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store	Yes
2015	Cronies			Yes (Executive producer)
	The Girl Is in Trouble			Yes (Executive producer)
	Chi-Raq	Yes	Yes	Yes
2016	Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall	Yes		Yes

Appearances in documentaries

Spike Lee has been interviewed or appeared as a guest in numerous documentaries.

Year	Film
1990	Mandela in America
1990	Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella
1993	Seven Songs for Malcolm X
1993	The Last Party
1994	Hoop Dreams
1995	The Cronkite Reports: The Faltering Dream
1995	First Works: A Revealing Look at Today's Greatest Directors, Vol. 1
1996	The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money
1996	When We Were Kings
1997	The Directors: Spike Lee
2005	How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)
2006	Edge of Outside
2007	Lights! Action! Music!
2008	40 x 15
2010	Spike and Jim
	Winning Time: Reggie Miller vs. The New York Knicks, an episode of 30 for 30
	The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players

Music videos

Year	Artist	Song	Album
1983	Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel	"White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)"
1987	Anita Baker	"No One in the World"	Rapture
1988	E.U.	"Da Butt"	School Daze OST
1989	Public Enemy	"Fight the Power"	Do the Right Thing OST and Fear of a Black Planet
1991	Fishbone	"Sunless Saturday"	The Reality of My Surroundings
1991	State of Art	"Understanding"	Community
1992	State of Art	"Laughing at the Years"	Community
	Prince and the New Power Generation	"Money Don't Matter 2 Night"	Diamonds and Pearls
	Arrested Development	"Revolution"^[5]	Malcolm X OST
1993	Naughty by Nature	"Hip Hop Hooray"	19 Naughty III
	Eros Ramazzotti	"Cose della vita"	Tutte storie
	Bruce Hornsby	"Talk Of The Town"	Harbor Lights
1994	Buckshot LeFonque	"Breakfast at Denny's"	Buckshot LeFonque
1996	Michael Jackson	"They Don't Care About Us" (Prison Version)	HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
1996	Michael Jackson	"They Don't Care About Us" (Brazil/Olodum Version)	HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
2000	Mau Maus	"Blak Iz Blak"	Bamboozled
2009	Michael Jackson	"This Is It"	This Is It
2014	Eminem	"Headlights"	The Marshall Mathers LP 2

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.
↑ "Revolution – Arrested Development - Music Video". MTV. Retrieved 2008-02-05.

External links

Spike Lee at the Internet Movie Database

Spike Lee

Filmography Awards and nominations

Feature films directed	She's Gotta Have It (1986) School Daze (1988) Do the Right Thing (1989) Mo' Better Blues (1990) Jungle Fever (1991) Malcolm X (1992) Crooklyn (1994) Clockers (1995) Girl 6 (1996) Get on the Bus (1996) He Got Game (1998) Summer of Sam (1999) Bamboozled (2000) 25th Hour (2002) She Hate Me (2004) Inside Man (2006) Miracle at St. Anna (2008) Red Hook Summer (2012) Oldboy (2013) Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014) Chi-Raq (2015)

Documentaries directed	4 Little Girls (1997) Freak (1998) The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) A Huey P. Newton Story (2001) The Concert for New York City (2001, "Come Rain or Come Shine") Jim Brown: All-American (2002) When the Levees Broke (2006) Kobe Doin' Work (2009) Passing Strange (2009) If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010) Bad 25 (2012) Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall (2016)

Other films directed	Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983) Lumière and Company (1995) Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002, segment "We Wuz Robbed") All the Invisible Children (2005, segment "Jesus Children of America")

Television film	Sucker Free City (2004)

Related articles	40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks Bill Lee Joie Lee David Lee Cinqué Lee Malcolm D. Lee

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