In May of 2007, Spike Lee was honored with the San Francisco Film Society's Directing Award. Lee's films are typically referred to as "Spike Lee Joints." The closing credits always end with the phrases "By Any Means Necessary," "Ya Dig," and "Sho Nuff." Lee's production company 40 Acres & A Mule has produced over 35 films since 1983. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary. In 1997, he released the documentary "4 Little Girls," which was about the girls killed in the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing in Birmingham, Alabama in 1963.
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Characters in the movie were referred to as Shylocks, a reference to the Venetian Jewish character in William Shakespeare's play "The Merchant of Venice." Lee denied the charges and explained that he was trying to illustrate how black artists struggled against exploitation. His next film, "Mo' Better Blues," was released in 1990 amid controversy over its antisemitic undertones. His 1989 film, "Do the Right Thing," garnered him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. When the movie was released in 1986, it grossed more than $7 million at the U.S. He had a budget of $175,000 and shot the entire film in just two weeks. Spike Lee began to work on his first feature film, She's Gotta Have It, in 1985. Lee's independent film, "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads," was the first student film to be showcased in Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films Festival. He got his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree in film and television from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1978. He enrolled at the historically black college Morehouse College in Atlanta, where he made his first student film, "Last Hustle in Brooklyn." He graduated with a B.A. He attended Brooklyn's John Dewey High School. His family moved from Atlanta to Brooklyn when he was a child. His mother gave him the nickname Spike when he was a young boy. He has three younger siblings, Joie, David, and Cinque. His dad, William, was a jazz musician and composer. His mom, Jacqueline, taught arts and black literature. Spike Lee was born Shelton Jackson Lee in Atlanta, Georgia on March 20, 1957. 💰 Compare Spike Lee's Net Worth Early Life
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