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href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B3%D8%A8%D8%A7%D9%8A%D9%83_%D9%84%D9%8A" title="سبايك لي – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="سبايك لي" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spayk_Li" title="Spayk Li – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="Spayk Li" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-azb mw-list-item"><a href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%84%DB%8C" title="اسپایک لی – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="اسپایک لی" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%B8%E0%A7%8D%E0%A6%AA%E0%A6%BE%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%95_%E0%A6%B2%E0%A6%BF" title="স্পাইক লি – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="স্পাইক লি" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA_%D0%9B%D1%96" title="Спайк Лі – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Спайк Лі" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA_%D0%9B%D0%B8%D0%B9" title="Спайк Лий – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Спайк Лий" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%A3%CF%80%CE%AC%CE%B9%CE%BA_%CE%9B%CE%B9" title="Σπάικ Λι – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Σπάικ Λι" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%BE%D8%A7%DB%8C%DA%A9_%D9%84%DB%8C" title="اسپایک لی – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="اسپایک لی" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%8A%A4%ED%8C%8C%EC%9D%B4%ED%81%AC_%EB%A6%AC" title="스파이크 리 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="스파이크 리" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%87%D5%A5%D5%AC%D5%BF%D5%B8%D5%B6_%D5%8B%D5%A5%D6%84%D5%BD%D5%B8%D5%B6_%C2%AB%D5%8D%D6%83%D5%A1%D5%B5%D6%84%C2%BB_%D4%BC%D5%AB" title="Շելտոն Ջեքսոն «Սփայք» Լի – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Շելտոն Ջեքսոն «Սփայք» Լի" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ido</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A1%D7%A4%D7%99%D7%99%D7%A7_%D7%9C%D7%99" title="ספייק לי – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ספייק לי" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%9E%E1%83%90%E1%83%98%E1%83%99_%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="სპაიკ ლი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="სპაიკ ლი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BA_%D0%9B%D0%B8" title="Спайк Ли – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="Спайк Ли" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Қазақша</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ht mw-list-item"><a href="https://ht.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Haitian Creole" lang="ht" hreflang="ht" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Kreyòl ayisyen" data-language-local-name="Haitian Creole" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kreyòl ayisyen</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaiks_L%C4%AB" title="Spaiks Lī – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Spaiks Lī" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lb mw-list-item"><a href="https://lb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Luxembourgish" lang="lb" hreflang="lb" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Lëtzebuergesch" data-language-local-name="Luxembourgish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lëtzebuergesch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spike_Lee" title="Spike Lee – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Spike Lee" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%BF%D0%B0%D1%98%D0%BA_%D0%9B%D0%B8" title="Спајк Ли – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Спајк Ли" 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.infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">Spike Lee</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Spike_Lee_Headshot.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Spike_Lee_Headshot.jpg/220px-Spike_Lee_Headshot.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Spike_Lee_Headshot.jpg/330px-Spike_Lee_Headshot.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Spike_Lee_Headshot.jpg/440px-Spike_Lee_Headshot.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1731" data-file-height="2164" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Lee in June 2024</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">Shelton Jackson Lee</div><br /><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1957-03-20</span>) </span>March 20, 1957<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age 67)</span><br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Atlanta" title="Atlanta">Atlanta</a>, <a href="/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>, U.S.</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Education</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Morehouse_College" title="Morehouse College">Morehouse College</a> (<a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Arts" title="Bachelor of Arts">BA</a>)<br /><a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a> (<a href="/wiki/Master_of_Fine_Arts" title="Master of Fine Arts">MFA</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist 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ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Director</li><li>producer</li><li>writer</li><li>actor</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Years active</th><td class="infobox-data">1977–present</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Works</th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Spike_Lee_filmography" class="mw-redirect" title="Spike Lee filmography">Filmography</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Spike_Lee%27s_unrealized_projects" title="Spike Lee's unrealized projects">unrealized</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Board member of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/40_Acres_and_a_Mule_Filmworks" title="40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks">40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151524712">.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin2px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-2px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-line-margin3px{line-height:0;margin-bottom:-3px}.mw-parser-output .marriage-display-ws{display:inline;white-space:nowrap}</style> <div class="marriage-display-ws"><div style="display:inline-block;line-height:normal;"><a href="/wiki/Tonya_Lewis_Lee" title="Tonya Lewis Lee">Tonya Lewis</a></div> <div style="display:inline-block;"></div>(<abbr title="married">m.</abbr> 1993)<wbr /></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Children</th><td class="infobox-data">2</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parent</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Lee_(musician)" title="Bill Lee (musician)">Bill Lee</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Relatives</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Joie_Lee" title="Joie Lee">Joie Lee</a> (sister)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Cinqu%C3%A9_Lee" title="Cinqué Lee">Cinqué Lee</a> (brother)</li><li><a href="/wiki/David_Lee_(still_photographer)" title="David Lee (still photographer)">David Lee</a> (brother)</li><li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_D._Lee" title="Malcolm D. Lee">Malcolm D. Lee</a> (cousin)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Awards</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Spike_Lee" title="List of awards and nominations received by Spike Lee">Full list</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Shelton Jackson</b> "<b>Spike</b>" <b>Lee</b> (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author. His work has continually explored <a href="/wiki/Race_relations" title="Race relations">race relations</a>, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues. Lee has won numerous <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Spike_Lee" title="List of awards and nominations received by Spike Lee">accolades</a> for his work, including an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a>, two <a href="/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Awards" title="Primetime Emmy Awards">Primetime Emmy Awards</a>, a <a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="BAFTA Award">BAFTA Award</a>, and two <a href="/wiki/Peabody_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Peabody Award">Peabody Awards</a>. He has also been honored with an <a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="BAFTA Award">Honorary BAFTA Award</a> in 2002, an <a href="/wiki/Honorary_C%C3%A9sar" title="Honorary César">Honorary César</a> in 2003, and the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Honorary_Award" title="Academy Honorary Award">Academy Honorary Award</a> in 2015. </p><p>His production company, <a href="/wiki/40_Acres_and_a_Mule_Filmworks" title="40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks">40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks</a>, has produced more than 35 films since 1983. He made his <a href="/wiki/Directorial_debut" class="mw-redirect" title="Directorial debut">directorial debut</a> with <i><a href="/wiki/She%27s_Gotta_Have_It" title="She's Gotta Have It">She's Gotta Have It</a></i> (1986). He has since written and directed such films as <i><a href="/wiki/School_Daze" title="School Daze">School Daze</a></i> (1988), <i><a href="/wiki/Do_the_Right_Thing" title="Do the Right Thing">Do the Right Thing</a></i> (1989), <i><a href="/wiki/Mo%27_Better_Blues" title="Mo' Better Blues">Mo' Better Blues</a></i> (1990), <i><a href="/wiki/Jungle_Fever" title="Jungle Fever">Jungle Fever</a></i> (1991), <i><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_X_(1992_film)" title="Malcolm X (1992 film)">Malcolm X</a></i> (1992), <i><a href="/wiki/Crooklyn" title="Crooklyn">Crooklyn</a></i> (1994), <i><a href="/wiki/Clockers_(film)" title="Clockers (film)">Clockers</a></i> (1995), <i><a href="/wiki/25th_Hour" title="25th Hour">25th Hour</a></i> (2002), <i><a href="/wiki/Inside_Man" title="Inside Man">Inside Man</a></i> (2006), <i><a href="/wiki/Chi-Raq" title="Chi-Raq">Chi-Raq</a></i> (2015), <i><a href="/wiki/BlacKkKlansman" title="BlacKkKlansman">BlacKkKlansman</a></i> (2018), and <i><a href="/wiki/Da_5_Bloods" title="Da 5 Bloods">Da 5 Bloods</a></i> (2020). Lee also acted in eleven of his feature films. He is also known for directing numerous documentary projects including <i><a href="/wiki/4_Little_Girls" title="4 Little Girls">4 Little Girls</a></i> (1997), the <a href="/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a> series <i><a href="/wiki/When_the_Levees_Broke" title="When the Levees Broke">When the Levees Broke</a></i> (2006), the concert film <i><a href="/wiki/American_Utopia_(film)" title="American Utopia (film)">American Utopia</a></i> (2020), and <i><a href="/wiki/NYC_Epicenters_9/11%E2%86%922021%C2%BD" title="NYC Epicenters 9/11→2021½">NYC Epicenters 9/11→2021½</a></i> (2021). </p><p>His films have featured breakthrough performances from actors such as <a href="/wiki/Denzel_Washington" title="Denzel Washington">Denzel Washington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Fishburne" title="Laurence Fishburne">Laurence Fishburne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson" title="Samuel L. Jackson">Samuel L. Jackson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Giancarlo_Esposito" title="Giancarlo Esposito">Giancarlo Esposito</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rosie_Perez" title="Rosie Perez">Rosie Perez</a>, <a href="/wiki/Delroy_Lindo" title="Delroy Lindo">Delroy Lindo</a>, and <a href="/wiki/John_David_Washington" title="John David Washington">John David Washington</a>. Lee's films <i><a href="/wiki/Do_the_Right_Thing" title="Do the Right Thing">Do the Right Thing</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Bamboozled" title="Bamboozled">Bamboozled</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_X_(1992_film)" title="Malcolm X (1992 film)">Malcolm X</a></i>, <i><a href="/wiki/4_Little_Girls" title="4 Little Girls">4 Little Girls</a></i>, and <i><a href="/wiki/She%27s_Gotta_Have_It" title="She's Gotta Have It">She's Gotta Have It</a></i> were each selected by the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> for preservation in the <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Registry" title="National Film Registry">National Film Registry</a> for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<sup id="cite_ref-cnn.com_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cnn.com-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-philasun.com_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-philasun.com-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Chow_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Chow-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He has received a Gala Tribute from the <a href="/wiki/Film_Society_of_Lincoln_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="Film Society of Lincoln Center">Film Society of Lincoln Center</a> as well as the <a href="/wiki/The_Dorothy_and_Lillian_Gish_Prize" title="The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize">Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life_and_education">Early life and education</h2></div> <p>Shelton Jackson Lee was born in <a href="/wiki/Atlanta,_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlanta, Georgia">Atlanta, Georgia</a>, the son of Jacqueline Carroll (<span title="Name at birth"><a href="/wiki/Birth_name#Maiden_and_married_names" title="Birth name">née</a></span> Shelton), a teacher of arts and black literature, and <a href="/wiki/Bill_Lee_(musician)" title="Bill Lee (musician)">William James Edward Lee III</a>, a jazz musician and <a href="/wiki/Composer" title="Composer">composer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-filmrefbio_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-filmrefbio-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-refwho_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-refwho-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee has five younger siblings, three of whom (<a href="/wiki/Joie_Lee" title="Joie Lee">Joie</a>, <a href="/wiki/David_Lee_(still_photographer)" title="David Lee (still photographer)">David</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Cinqu%C3%A9_Lee" title="Cinqué Lee">Cinqué</a>) have worked in many different positions in Lee's films; a fourth, Christopher, died in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His youngest sibling is half-brother Arnold. Director <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_D._Lee" title="Malcolm D. Lee">Malcolm D. Lee</a> is his cousin. When he was a child, the family moved from Atlanta to <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, New York. His mother nicknamed him "Spike" during his childhood. He attended <a href="/wiki/John_Dewey_High_School" title="John Dewey High School">John Dewey High School</a> in Brooklyn's <a href="/wiki/Gravesend,_Brooklyn" title="Gravesend, Brooklyn">Gravesend neighborhood</a>. </p><p>Lee enrolled in <a href="/wiki/Morehouse_College" title="Morehouse College">Morehouse College</a>, a historically <a href="/wiki/Historically_black_colleges_and_universities" title="Historically black colleges and universities">black college</a> in Atlanta, where he made his first student film, <i>Last Hustle in Brooklyn</i>. He took film courses at <a href="/wiki/Clark_Atlanta_University" title="Clark Atlanta University">Clark Atlanta University</a> and graduated with a B.A. in <a href="/wiki/Mass_communication" title="Mass communication">mass communication</a> from Morehouse. He did graduate work at <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Tisch_School_of_the_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Tisch School of the Arts">Tisch School of the Arts</a>, where he earned a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_Fine_Arts" title="Master of Fine Arts">Master of Fine Arts</a> in film and television.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1980s">1980s</h3></div> <p>In 1983, Lee premiered his first independent short film titled, <i><a href="/wiki/Joe%27s_Bed-Stuy_Barbershop:_We_Cut_Heads" title="Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads">Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads</a></i>. Lee submitted the film as his <a href="/wiki/Master%27s_degree" title="Master's degree">master's degree</a> <a href="/wiki/Thesis" title="Thesis">thesis</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Tisch_School_of_the_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Tisch School of the Arts">Tisch School of the Arts</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee's classmates <a href="/wiki/Ang_Lee" title="Ang Lee">Ang Lee</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Dickerson" title="Ernest Dickerson">Ernest R. Dickerson</a> worked on the film as <a href="/wiki/Assistant_director" title="Assistant director">assistant director</a> and <a href="/wiki/Cinematographer" title="Cinematographer">cinematographer</a>, respectively. The film was the first student film to be showcased in <a href="/wiki/Lincoln_Center" title="Lincoln Center">Lincoln Center</a>'s New Directors New Films Festival. Lee's father, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Lee_(musician)" title="Bill Lee (musician)">Bill Lee</a>, composed the score. The film won a <a href="/wiki/Student_Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Student Academy Award">Student Academy Award</a>. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spike_Lee.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Spike_Lee.jpg/220px-Spike_Lee.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Spike_Lee.jpg/330px-Spike_Lee.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Spike_Lee.jpg/440px-Spike_Lee.jpg 2x" data-file-width="496" data-file-height="329" /></a><figcaption>Lee circa 1990s</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1985, Lee began work on his first feature film, <i><a href="/wiki/She%27s_Gotta_Have_It" title="She's Gotta Have It">She's Gotta Have It</a></i>. The <a href="/wiki/Black-and-white" title="Black-and-white">black-and-white</a> film concerns a young woman (played by <a href="/wiki/Tracy_Camilla_Johns" title="Tracy Camilla Johns">Tracy Camilla Johns</a>) who is seeing three men, and the feelings this arrangement provokes. The film was Lee's first feature-length film, and launched Lee's career. Lee wrote, directed, produced, starred and edited the film with a budget of $175,000, he shot the film in two weeks. When the film was released in 1986, it grossed over $7 million at the U.S. box office.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i> film critic <a href="/wiki/A.O._Scott" class="mw-redirect" title="A.O. Scott">A.O. Scott</a> wrote that the film "ushered in (along with <a href="/wiki/Jim_Jarmusch" title="Jim Jarmusch">Jim Jarmusch</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Stranger_Than_Paradise" title="Stranger Than Paradise">Stranger Than Paradise</a></i>) the American independent film movement of the 1980s. It was also a groundbreaking film for African-American filmmakers and a welcome change in the representation of blacks in American cinema, depicting men and women of color not as pimps and whores, but as intelligent, upscale urbanites."<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He followed this with the musical drama <i><a href="/wiki/School_Daze" title="School Daze">School Daze</a></i> (1988).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1989, Lee made perhaps his most seminal film, <i><a href="/wiki/Do_the_Right_Thing" title="Do the Right Thing">Do the Right Thing</a>,</i> which focused on a Brooklyn neighborhood's simmering racial tension on a hot summer day. The film's cast included Lee, <a href="/wiki/Danny_Aiello" title="Danny Aiello">Danny Aiello</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Nunn" title="Bill Nunn">Bill Nunn</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ossie_Davis" title="Ossie Davis">Ossie Davis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ruby_Dee" title="Ruby Dee">Ruby Dee</a>, <a href="/wiki/Giancarlo_Esposito" title="Giancarlo Esposito">Giancarlo Esposito</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rosie_Perez" title="Rosie Perez">Rosie Perez</a>, <a href="/wiki/John_Turturro" title="John Turturro">John Turturro</a>, <a href="/wiki/Martin_Lawrence" title="Martin Lawrence">Martin Lawrence</a> and <a href="/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson" title="Samuel L. Jackson">Samuel L. Jackson</a>. The film gained critical acclaim as one of the best films of the year from film critics including both <a href="/wiki/Gene_Siskel" title="Gene Siskel">Gene Siskel</a> and <a href="/wiki/Roger_Ebert" title="Roger Ebert">Roger Ebert</a> who ranked the film as the best of 1989, and later in their top 10 films of the decade (No. 6 for Siskel and No. 4 for Ebert).<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ebert later added the film to his list of <i><a href="/wiki/The_Great_Movies" title="The Great Movies">The Great Movies</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>To many people's surprise, the film was not nominated for <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture" title="Academy Award for Best Picture">Best Picture</a> or <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Director" title="Academy Award for Best Director">Best Director</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Awards</a>. The film only earned two Academy Award nominations for <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Original_Screenplay" title="Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay">Best Original Screenplay</a>, Spike Lee's first Oscar nomination, and for <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Supporting_Actor" title="Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor">Best Supporting Actor</a> for Danny Aiello. At the Academy ceremony <a href="/wiki/Kim_Basinger" title="Kim Basinger">Kim Basinger</a>, who was a presenter that evening, stated that <i>Do the Right Thing</i> also deserved a Best Picture nomination stating, "We've got five great films here, and they are great for one reason, because they tell the truth, but there is one film missing from this list because ironically it might tell the biggest truth of all and that's <i>Do the Right Thing</i>".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film that did win Best Picture was <i><a href="/wiki/Driving_Miss_Daisy" title="Driving Miss Daisy">Driving Miss Daisy</a></i>, a film that focused on race relations between an elderly Jewish woman (<a href="/wiki/Jessica_Tandy" title="Jessica Tandy">Jessica Tandy</a>) and her driver (<a href="/wiki/Morgan_Freeman" title="Morgan Freeman">Morgan Freeman</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee said in an April 7, 2006, interview with <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_(magazine)" title="New York (magazine)">New York</a></i> magazine that the other film's success, which he thought was based on safe stereotypes, hurt him more than if his film had not been nominated for an award.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1990s">1990s</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spike_Lee_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Spike_Lee_1.jpg/170px-Spike_Lee_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="252" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Spike_Lee_1.jpg/255px-Spike_Lee_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Spike_Lee_1.jpg/340px-Spike_Lee_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="865" data-file-height="1280" /></a><figcaption>Lee at the 1999 <a href="/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival" title="Cannes Film Festival">Cannes Film Festival</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 1990, Lee had his first collaboration with <a href="/wiki/Denzel_Washington" title="Denzel Washington">Denzel Washington</a> in <i><a href="/wiki/Mo%27_Better_Blues" title="Mo' Better Blues">Mo' Better Blues</a></i>. After the release of <i>Mo' Better Blues</i>, Lee was accused of <a href="/wiki/Antisemitism" title="Antisemitism">antisemitism</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League" title="Anti-Defamation League">Anti-Defamation League</a> and several film critics. They criticized the characters of the club owners Josh and Moe Flatbush, described as "<a href="/wiki/Shylock" title="Shylock">Shylocks</a>". Lee denied the charge, explaining that he wrote those characters in order to depict how black artists struggled against exploitation. Lee said that <a href="/wiki/Lew_Wasserman" title="Lew Wasserman">Lew Wasserman</a>, <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Sheinberg" title="Sidney Sheinberg">Sidney Sheinberg</a>, or Tom Pollock, the Jewish heads of MCA and <a href="/wiki/Universal_Studios,_Inc." title="Universal Studios, Inc.">Universal Studios</a>, were unlikely to allow antisemitic content in a film they produced. He said he could not make an antisemitic film because Jews run Hollywood, and "that's a fact".<sup id="cite_ref-Times900816_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times900816-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His next film was <i><a href="/wiki/Jungle_Fever" title="Jungle Fever">Jungle Fever</a></i> (1991), for which Samuel L. Jackson won acclaim for his performance as a <a href="/wiki/Crack_cocaine" title="Crack cocaine">crack</a> addict.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1992, Spike released his biographical epic film <i><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_X_(1992_film)" title="Malcolm X (1992 film)">Malcolm X</a></i> based on the <i><a href="/wiki/Autobiography_of_Malcolm_X" class="mw-redirect" title="Autobiography of Malcolm X">Autobiography of Malcolm X</a></i>, starring Denzel Washington as the famed <a href="/wiki/Malcolm_X" title="Malcolm X">civil rights leader</a>. The film dramatizes key events in Malcolm X's life: his criminal career, his <a href="/wiki/Prison" title="Prison">incarceration</a>, his <a href="/wiki/Conversion_to_Islam" title="Conversion to Islam">conversion to Islam</a>, his ministry as a member of the <a href="/wiki/Nation_of_Islam" title="Nation of Islam">Nation of Islam</a> and his later falling out with the organization, his marriage to <a href="/wiki/Betty_Shabazz" title="Betty Shabazz">Betty X</a>, his <a href="/wiki/Hajj" title="Hajj">pilgrimage</a> to <a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a> and reevaluation of his views concerning <a href="/wiki/White_people" title="White people">whites</a>, and his <a href="/wiki/Assassination" title="Assassination">assassination</a> on February 21, 1965. Defining childhood incidents, including his father's death, his mother's <a href="/wiki/Mental_disorder" title="Mental disorder">mental illness</a>, and his experiences with racism are dramatized in <a href="/wiki/Flashback_(narrative)" title="Flashback (narrative)">flashbacks</a>. The film received widespread critical acclaim including from critic <a href="/wiki/Roger_Ebert" title="Roger Ebert">Roger Ebert</a> ranked the film No. 1 on his Top 10 list for 1992 and described the film as "one of the great screen biographies, celebrating the sweep of an American life that bottomed out in prison before its hero reinvented himself."<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ebert and <a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a>, who was sitting in for late <i>At the Movies</i> co-host <a href="/wiki/Gene_Siskel" title="Gene Siskel">Gene Siskel</a>, both ranked <i>Malcolm X</i> among the ten best films of the 1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Denzel Washington's portrayal of Malcolm X in particular was widely praised and he was nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Actor" title="Academy Award for Best Actor">Academy Award for Best Actor</a>. Washington lost to <a href="/wiki/Al_Pacino" title="Al Pacino">Al Pacino</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Scent_of_a_Woman_(1992_film)" title="Scent of a Woman (1992 film)">Scent of a Woman</a></i>), a decision which Lee criticized, saying "I'm not the only one who thinks Denzel was robbed on that one."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox" style="clear: right; float:right;margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:115%">External videos</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="video icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/16px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/24px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/1b/Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg/32px-Nuvola_apps_kaboodle.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="128" data-file-height="128" /></span></span> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.c-span.org/video/?76013-1/black-genius">Presentation by Lee at the New York University's <i>Black Genius</i> series, October 18, 1996</a>, <a href="/wiki/C-SPAN" title="C-SPAN">C-SPAN</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>He followed <i>Malcolm X</i> with <i><a href="/wiki/Crooklyn" title="Crooklyn">Crooklyn</a></i> (1994),<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Clockers_(film)" title="Clockers (film)">Clockers</a></i> (1995),<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <i><a href="/wiki/Girl_6" title="Girl 6">Girl 6</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Get_on_the_Bus" title="Get on the Bus">Get on the Bus</a></i> (both 1996).<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His 1997 documentary <i><a href="/wiki/4_Little_Girls" title="4 Little Girls">4 Little Girls</a></i>, about the girls killed in the <a href="/wiki/16th_Street_Baptist_Church_bombing" title="16th Street Baptist Church bombing">16th Street Baptist Church bombing</a> in <a href="/wiki/Birmingham,_Alabama" title="Birmingham, Alabama">Birmingham, Alabama</a>, in 1963, was nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Documentary_Feature" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature">Academy Award for Best Feature Documentary</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Registry" title="National Film Registry">National Film Registry</a> by the <a href="/wiki/Library_of_Congress" title="Library of Congress">Library of Congress</a> as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He had his third collaboration with Denzel Washington on the sports drama <i><a href="/wiki/He_Got_Game" title="He Got Game">He Got Game</a></i> (1998).<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He followed this with <i><a href="/wiki/Summer_of_Sam" title="Summer of Sam">Summer of Sam</a></i> (1999),<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> based on the <a href="/wiki/Son_of_Sam" class="mw-redirect" title="Son of Sam">Son of Sam</a> murders. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2000s">2000s</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spike_Lee_at_the_2009_Tribeca_Film_Festival.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Spike_Lee_at_the_2009_Tribeca_Film_Festival.jpg/170px-Spike_Lee_at_the_2009_Tribeca_Film_Festival.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="205" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Spike_Lee_at_the_2009_Tribeca_Film_Festival.jpg/255px-Spike_Lee_at_the_2009_Tribeca_Film_Festival.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Spike_Lee_at_the_2009_Tribeca_Film_Festival.jpg/340px-Spike_Lee_at_the_2009_Tribeca_Film_Festival.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2072" data-file-height="2493" /></a><figcaption>Lee at the 2009 <a href="/wiki/Tribeca_Film_Festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Tribeca Film Festival">Tribeca Film Festival</a></figcaption></figure> <p>In 2000, Lee directed <i><a href="/wiki/Bamboozled" title="Bamboozled">Bamboozled</a></i> (2000),<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a satire about a modern televised <a href="/wiki/Minstrel_show" title="Minstrel show">minstrel show</a>. He followed this with <i><a href="/wiki/25th_Hour" title="25th Hour">25th Hour</a></i> (2002) starring <a href="/wiki/Edward_Norton" title="Edward Norton">Edward Norton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philip_Seymour_Hoffman" title="Philip Seymour Hoffman">Philip Seymour Hoffman</a> which opened to positive reviews, with several critics since having named it one of the best films of its decade. Film critic <a href="/wiki/Roger_Ebert" title="Roger Ebert">Roger Ebert</a> added the film to his "Great Movies" list on December 16, 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/A._O._Scott" title="A. O. Scott">A. O. Scott</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Richard_Roeper" title="Richard Roeper">Richard Roeper</a><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Roger Ebert all put it on their "best films of the decade" lists.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was later named the 26th greatest film since 2000 in a <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> poll of 177 critics.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film was also a financial success earning almost $24 million against a $5 million budget.<sup id="cite_ref-BOM_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BOM-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He followed <i>25th Hour</i> with <i><a href="/wiki/She_Hate_Me" title="She Hate Me">She Hate Me</a></i> (2004), which received negative reviews.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2006, Lee directed <i><a href="/wiki/Inside_Man" title="Inside Man">Inside Man</a></i> starring Denzel Washington, <a href="/wiki/Jodie_Foster" title="Jodie Foster">Jodie Foster</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clive_Owen" title="Clive Owen">Clive Owen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chiwetel_Ejiofor" title="Chiwetel Ejiofor">Chiwetel Ejiofor</a>, <a href="/wiki/Willem_Dafoe" title="Willem Dafoe">Willem Dafoe</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christopher_Plummer" title="Christopher Plummer">Christopher Plummer</a>. The film was an unusual film for Lee considering it was a studio heist thriller. The film was a critical and financial success earning $186 million off a $45 million budget. <i><a href="/wiki/Empire_(film_magazine)" class="mw-redirect" title="Empire (film magazine)">Empire</a></i> gave the film four stars out of five, concluding, "It's certainly a Spike Lee film, but no Spike Lee Joint. Still, he's delivered a pacy, vigorous and frequently masterful take on a well-worn genre. Thanks to some slick lens work and a cast on cracking form, Lee proves (perhaps above all to himself?) that playing it straight is not always a bad thing."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On May 2, 2007, the 50th <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_International_Film_Festival" title="San Francisco International Film Festival">San Francisco International Film Festival</a> honored Spike Lee with the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Film_Society" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco Film Society">San Francisco Film Society</a>'s Directing Award. In 2008, he received the Wexner Prize.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same year, Lee directed the <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a> drama <i><a href="/wiki/Miracle_at_St._Anna" title="Miracle at St. Anna">Miracle at St. Anna</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2010s">2010s</h3></div> <p>In 2012, Lee directed <i><a href="/wiki/Red_Hook_Summer" title="Red Hook Summer">Red Hook Summer</a></i>, in which he reprised his role as Mookie from <i>Do the Right Thing.</i><sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2013, Lee won <a href="/wiki/The_Dorothy_and_Lillian_Gish_Prize" title="The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize">The Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize</a>, one of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_the_world%27s_richest_literary_prizes" class="mw-redirect" title="List of the world's richest literary prizes">richest prizes in the American arts</a> worth $300,000.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same year, he directed <i><a href="/wiki/Oldboy_(2013_film)" title="Oldboy (2013 film)">Oldboy</a></i>, a remake of the <a href="/wiki/Park_Chan-wook" title="Park Chan-wook">Park Chan-wook</a> <a href="/wiki/Oldboy_(2003_film)" title="Oldboy (2003 film)">2003 film</a>, which was reportedly taken away from Lee in the editing room, leading him to remove his trademark "A Spike Lee Joint" credit for a more impersonal "A Spike Lee Film".<sup id="cite_ref-variety1_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety1-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He followed this with <i><a href="/wiki/Da_Sweet_Blood_of_Jesus" title="Da Sweet Blood of Jesus">Da Sweet Blood of Jesus</a></i> (2014), which was primarily funded on <a href="/wiki/Kickstarter" title="Kickstarter">Kickstarter</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, Lee received an <a href="/wiki/Academy_Honorary_Award" title="Academy Honorary Award">Academy Honorary Award</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Motion_Picture_Arts_and_Sciences" title="Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences">Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences</a> for his contributions to film.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Friends and frequent collaborators <a href="/wiki/Wesley_Snipes" title="Wesley Snipes">Wesley Snipes</a>, Denzel Washington, and Samuel L. Jackson presented Lee with the award at the private <a href="/wiki/Governors_Awards" title="Governors Awards">Governors Awards</a> ceremony.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee directed, wrote, and produced the MyCareer story mode in the video game <i><a href="/wiki/NBA_2K16" title="NBA 2K16">NBA 2K16</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Later that same year, after a perceived long dip in quality, Lee rebounded with a musical drama film, <i><a href="/wiki/Chi-Raq" title="Chi-Raq">Chi-Raq</a></i>. The film is a modern-day adaptation of the ancient Greek play <i><a href="/wiki/Lysistrata" title="Lysistrata">Lysistrata</a></i> by <a href="/wiki/Aristophanes" title="Aristophanes">Aristophanes</a> set in modern-day <a href="/wiki/Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>'s Southside and explores the challenges of race, sex, and violence in America. <a href="/wiki/Teyonah_Parris" title="Teyonah Parris">Teyonah Parris</a>, <a href="/wiki/Angela_Bassett" title="Angela Bassett">Angela Bassett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jennifer_Hudson" title="Jennifer Hudson">Jennifer Hudson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nick_Cannon" title="Nick Cannon">Nick Cannon</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dave_Chappelle" title="Dave Chappelle">Dave Chappelle</a>, Wesley Snipes, <a href="/wiki/John_Cusack" title="John Cusack">John Cusack</a>, and Samuel L. Jackson starred in the film. The film was released by <a href="/wiki/Amazon_Studios" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazon Studios">Amazon Studios</a> in select cities in November. <i>Chi-Raq</i> received generally positive reviews from critics. On <a href="/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes" title="Rotten Tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes</a>, the film has rating of 82% with the site's critical consensus stating, "<i>Chi-Raq</i> is as urgently topical and satisfyingly ambitious as it is wildly uneven – and it contains some of Spike Lee's smartest, sharpest, and all-around entertaining late-period work."<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cannes_2018_14.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Cannes_2018_14.jpg/220px-Cannes_2018_14.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Cannes_2018_14.jpg/330px-Cannes_2018_14.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Cannes_2018_14.jpg/440px-Cannes_2018_14.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1340" data-file-height="799" /></a><figcaption>Lee and his cast promoting <i><a href="/wiki/BlacKkKlansman" title="BlacKkKlansman">BlacKkKlansman</a></i> at the <a href="/wiki/2018_Cannes_Film_Festival" title="2018 Cannes Film Festival">2018 Cannes Film Festival</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Lee's 2018 film <i><a href="/wiki/BlacKkKlansman" title="BlacKkKlansman">BlacKkKlansman</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/True_crime" title="True crime">true crime</a> drama set in the 1970s centered around the true story of a black police officer, <a href="/wiki/Ron_Stallworth" title="Ron Stallworth">Ron Stallworth</a>, infiltrating the <a href="/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a>. The film premiered at the <a href="/wiki/2018_Cannes_Film_Festival" title="2018 Cannes Film Festival">2018 Cannes Film Festival</a>, where it won the <a href="/wiki/Grand_Prix_(Cannes_Film_Festival)" title="Grand Prix (Cannes Film Festival)">Grand Prix</a> and opened the following August.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film received near universal praise when it opened in <a href="/wiki/North_America" title="North America">North America</a> receiving a 96% on <a href="/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes" title="Rotten Tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes</a> with the critics consensus reading, "<i>BlacKkKlansman</i> uses history to offer bitingly trenchant commentary on current events – and brings out some of Spike Lee's hardest-hitting work in decades along the way."<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, during the awards season leading up to the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Awards</a>, Lee was invited to join a Directors Roundtable conversation run by <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hollywood_Reporter" title="The Hollywood Reporter">The Hollywood Reporter</a></i>. The roundtable included <a href="/wiki/Ryan_Coogler" title="Ryan Coogler">Ryan Coogler</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Black_Panther_(film)" title="Black Panther (film)">Black Panther</a></i>), <a href="/wiki/Yorgos_Lanthimos" title="Yorgos Lanthimos">Yorgos Lanthimos</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/The_Favourite" title="The Favourite">The Favourite</a></i>), <a href="/wiki/Alfonso_Cuar%C3%B3n" title="Alfonso Cuarón">Alfonso Cuarón</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Roma_(2018_film)" title="Roma (2018 film)">Roma</a></i>), <a href="/wiki/Marielle_Heller" title="Marielle Heller">Marielle Heller</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/Can_You_Ever_Forgive_Me%3F" title="Can You Ever Forgive Me?">Can You Ever Forgive Me?</a></i>), and <a href="/wiki/Bradley_Cooper" title="Bradley Cooper">Bradley Cooper</a> (<i><a href="/wiki/A_Star_Is_Born_(2018_film)" title="A Star Is Born (2018 film)">A Star is Born</a></i>).<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was nominated for the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture" title="Academy Award for Best Picture">Academy Award for Best Picture</a> and <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Director" title="Academy Award for Best Director">Best Director</a> (Lee's first ever nomination in this category). Lee won his first competitive Academy Award in the category <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay" title="Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay">Best Adapted Screenplay</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> When asked by journalists from the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> if the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award_for_Best_Picture" title="Academy Award for Best Picture">Best Picture</a> winner <i><a href="/wiki/Green_Book_(film)" title="Green Book (film)">Green Book</a></i> offended him, Lee replied, "Let me give you a British answer, it's not my cup of tea".<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many journalists in the industry noted how the <a href="/wiki/91st_Academy_Awards" title="91st Academy Awards">2019 Oscars</a> with <i>BlacKkKlansman</i> competing against eventual winner <i>Green Book</i> mirrored the <a href="/wiki/62nd_Academy_Awards" title="62nd Academy Awards">1989 Oscars</a> with Lee's film <i><a href="/wiki/Do_the_Right_Thing" title="Do the Right Thing">Do the Right Thing</a></i> missing out on a Best Picture nomination over the eventual winner <i><a href="/wiki/Driving_Miss_Daisy" title="Driving Miss Daisy">Driving Miss Daisy</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="2020s">2020s</h3></div> <p>Lee's Vietnam war film <i><a href="/wiki/Da_5_Bloods" title="Da 5 Bloods">Da 5 Bloods</a></i> was released on <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a>. The film starred <a href="/wiki/Delroy_Lindo" title="Delroy Lindo">Delroy Lindo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Majors" title="Jonathan Majors">Jonathan Majors</a>, <a href="/wiki/Clarke_Peters" title="Clarke Peters">Clarke Peters</a>, <a href="/wiki/Isiah_Whitlock_Jr." title="Isiah Whitlock Jr.">Isiah Whitlock Jr.</a>, <a href="/wiki/M%C3%A9lanie_Thierry" title="Mélanie Thierry">Mélanie Thierry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Paul_Walter_Hauser" title="Paul Walter Hauser">Paul Walter Hauser</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chadwick_Boseman" title="Chadwick Boseman">Chadwick Boseman</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film was released worldwide on June 12, 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film's plot follows a group of aging <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a> veterans who return to the country in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader, as well as the treasure they buried while serving there. Before the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, the film was scheduled to premiere out-of-competition at the <a href="/wiki/2020_Cannes_Film_Festival" title="2020 Cannes Film Festival">2020 Cannes Film Festival</a>, then play in theaters in May or June before streaming on Netflix.<sup id="cite_ref-Vulture_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vulture-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The film received widespread critical acclaim; the website <a href="/wiki/Rotten_Tomatoes" title="Rotten Tomatoes">Rotten Tomatoes</a> gave it an approval rating of 92% based on 252 reviews, with the critical consensus reading: "Fierce energy and ambition course through <i>Da 5 Bloods</i>, coming together to fuel one of Spike Lee's most urgent and impactful films."<sup id="cite_ref-rt_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rt-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On <a href="/wiki/Metacritic" title="Metacritic">Metacritic</a>, the film has a weighted average score of 82 out of 100, based on 49 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lee has been linked to a movie musical about the origin story of <a href="/wiki/Viagra" class="mw-redirect" title="Viagra">Viagra</a>, Pfizer's erectile dysfunction drug.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He signed a deal with <a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> to direct and produce more movies.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In February 2024, it was announced that Spike Lee was confirmed as the director of <i><a href="/wiki/Highest_2_Lowest" title="Highest 2 Lowest">Highest 2 Lowest</a></i>, a remake of <a href="/wiki/High_and_Low_(1963_film)" title="High and Low (1963 film)"><i>High and Low</i></a> (1963) originally directed by <a href="/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa" title="Akira Kurosawa">Akira Kurosawa</a>, with Denzel Washington to star.<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Academic_career_and_teaching">Academic career and teaching</h2></div> <p>In 1991, Lee taught a course at Harvard about filmmaking. In 1993, he began to teach at New York University's <a href="/wiki/Tisch_School_of_the_Arts" class="mw-redirect" title="Tisch School of the Arts">Tisch School of the Arts</a> in the Graduate Film Program. It was there that he received his master of fine arts. In 2002, he was appointed as artistic director of the school.<sup id="cite_ref-NYU_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYU-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He is now a tenured professor at NYU.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Commercials">Commercials</h2></div> <p>In mid-1990, <a href="/wiki/Levi_Strauss_%26_Co." title="Levi Strauss & Co.">Levi's</a> hired Lee to direct a series of TV commercials for their 501 button-fly jeans.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Marketing executives from <a href="/wiki/Nike,_Inc." title="Nike, Inc.">Nike</a><sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> offered Lee a job directing commercials for the company. They wanted to pair Lee's character, <a href="/wiki/Mars_Blackmon" title="Mars Blackmon">Mars Blackmon</a>, who greatly admired athlete <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Michael Jordan</a>, and Jordan in a marketing campaign for the <a href="/wiki/Air_Jordan" title="Air Jordan">Air Jordan</a> line. Later, Lee was asked to comment on the phenomenon of violence related to inner-city youths trying to steal Air Jordans from other kids.<sup id="cite_ref-chuck_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chuck-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He said that, rather than blaming manufacturers of apparel that gained popularity, "deal with the conditions that make a kid put so much importance on a pair of sneakers, a jacket and gold".<sup id="cite_ref-chuck_74-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-chuck-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Through the marketing wing of 40 Acres and a Mule, Lee has directed commercials for <a href="/wiki/Converse_(shoe_company)" class="mw-redirect" title="Converse (shoe company)">Converse</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jaguar_(car)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaguar (car)">Jaguar</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Taco_Bell" title="Taco Bell">Taco Bell</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/Ben_%26_Jerry%27s" title="Ben & Jerry's">Ben & Jerry's</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Artistic_style_and_themes">Artistic style and themes</h2></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SpikeLeeSept2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/SpikeLeeSept2011.jpg/197px-SpikeLeeSept2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="197" height="189" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/SpikeLeeSept2011.jpg/296px-SpikeLeeSept2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/SpikeLeeSept2011.jpg/394px-SpikeLeeSept2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="878" data-file-height="841" /></a><figcaption>Lee in September 2011</figcaption></figure> <p>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".<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His 2013 film, <i><a href="/wiki/Oldboy_(2013_film)" title="Oldboy (2013 film)">Oldboy</a></i>, used the traditional "A Spike Lee Film" credit after producers had it re-edited.<sup id="cite_ref-variety1_45-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-variety1-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Themes">Themes</h3></div> <p>Lee's films have examined <a href="/wiki/Race_relations" title="Race relations">race relations</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Colorism" class="mw-redirect" title="Colorism">colorism</a> in the black community, the role of media in contemporary life,<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> urban crime and poverty, and other political issues. His films are also noted for their unique stylistic elements, including the use of dolly shots to portray the characters "floating" through their surroundings, which he has had his cinematographers repeatedly use in his work.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Influences">Influences</h3></div> <p>In 2018, during an interview with <i><a href="/wiki/GQ" title="GQ">GQ</a></i>, Lee cited some of his favorite films as <a href="/wiki/Elia_Kazan" title="Elia Kazan">Elia Kazan</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/On_the_Waterfront" title="On the Waterfront">On the Waterfront</a></i> (1954) and <i><a href="/wiki/A_Face_in_the_Crowd_(film)" title="A Face in the Crowd (film)">A Face in the Crowd</a></i> (1957), as well as <a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Mean_Streets" title="Mean Streets">Mean Streets</a></i> (1973). Lee says that he befriended Scorsese after attending a screening of <i><a href="/wiki/After_Hours_(film)" title="After Hours (film)">After Hours</a></i> at NYU.<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriage">Marriage</h3></div> <p>Lee met his wife, <a href="/wiki/Attorney_at_law" title="Attorney at law">attorney</a> <a href="/wiki/Tonya_Lewis_Lee" title="Tonya Lewis Lee">Tonya Lewis Lee</a>, in 1992, and they were married a year later in New York.<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They have two children.<sup id="cite_ref-timesatchel_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesatchel-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Spike_Lee_does_the_T-shirt_Toss_at_The_Liberty_vs_Aces_WNBA_Semifinals,_September_29,_2024.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Filmmaker and Basketball Superfan Spike Lee on the basketball court during a break in the game play, helping throw T-shirts into the crowd at Barclays Center Arena in Brooklyn, NY" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Spike_Lee_does_the_T-shirt_Toss_at_The_Liberty_vs_Aces_WNBA_Semifinals%2C_September_29%2C_2024.jpg/220px-Spike_Lee_does_the_T-shirt_Toss_at_The_Liberty_vs_Aces_WNBA_Semifinals%2C_September_29%2C_2024.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="293" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Spike_Lee_does_the_T-shirt_Toss_at_The_Liberty_vs_Aces_WNBA_Semifinals%2C_September_29%2C_2024.jpg/330px-Spike_Lee_does_the_T-shirt_Toss_at_The_Liberty_vs_Aces_WNBA_Semifinals%2C_September_29%2C_2024.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9e/Spike_Lee_does_the_T-shirt_Toss_at_The_Liberty_vs_Aces_WNBA_Semifinals%2C_September_29%2C_2024.jpg/440px-Spike_Lee_does_the_T-shirt_Toss_at_The_Liberty_vs_Aces_WNBA_Semifinals%2C_September_29%2C_2024.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3024" data-file-height="4032" /></a><figcaption>Spike Lee takes part in the T-shirt toss at The <a href="/wiki/WNBA" class="mw-redirect" title="WNBA">WNBA</a> Semifinals, at the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">NY Liberty</a> vs <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas_Aces" title="Las Vegas Aces">LV Aces</a> game on September 29, 2024</figcaption></figure> <p>When asked by the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a> whether he believed in God, Lee said: "Yes. I have faith that there is a higher being. All this cannot be an accident."<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee continues to maintain an office in <a href="/wiki/Fort_Greene" class="mw-redirect" title="Fort Greene">Fort Greene</a>, <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>, but he and his wife live on the <a href="/wiki/Upper_East_Side" title="Upper East Side">Upper East Side</a> of <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sports">Sports</h3></div> <p>Spike Lee is a fan of the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Knicks" title="New York Knicks">New York Knicks</a> basketball team, the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Yankees" title="New York Yankees">New York Yankees</a> baseball team (although he grew up a <a href="/wiki/New_York_Mets" title="New York Mets">New York Mets</a> fan<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>), the <a href="/wiki/New_York_Rangers" title="New York Rangers">New York Rangers</a> ice hockey team, and the English football club <a href="/wiki/Arsenal_F.C." title="Arsenal F.C.">Arsenal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-arse_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-arse-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the documentaries in <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/30_for_30" title="30 for 30">30 for 30</a></i> series, <i>Winning Time: <a href="/wiki/Reggie_Miller" title="Reggie Miller">Reggie Miller</a> vs. The New York Knicks</i>, focuses partly on Lee's interaction with Miller at Knicks games in <a href="/wiki/Madison_Square_Garden" title="Madison Square Garden">Madison Square Garden</a>. In June 2003, Lee sought an injunction against <a href="/wiki/Spike_TV" class="mw-redirect" title="Spike TV">Spike TV</a> to prevent them from using his nickname; he claimed that because of his fame, viewers would think he was associated with the channel.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In March 2020, Lee and the security team at Madison Square Garden had a disagreement over which entrance to use to see the New York Knicks; Lee stated he would not attend the rest of the games for the season.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Spike Lee has also frequented <a href="/wiki/New_York_Liberty" title="New York Liberty">New York Liberty</a> games at <a href="/wiki/Barclays_Center" title="Barclays Center">Barclays Center</a>, sitting courtside during the <a href="/wiki/2024_WNBA_playoffs" title="2024 WNBA playoffs">2024 WNBA playoffs</a> in a <a href="/wiki/Sabrina_Ionescu" title="Sabrina Ionescu">Sabrina Ionescu</a> Jersey<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Politics">Politics</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lozupone-sanders-wsqp-rally4.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Lozupone-sanders-wsqp-rally4.png/220px-Lozupone-sanders-wsqp-rally4.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="182" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Lozupone-sanders-wsqp-rally4.png/330px-Lozupone-sanders-wsqp-rally4.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Lozupone-sanders-wsqp-rally4.png/440px-Lozupone-sanders-wsqp-rally4.png 2x" data-file-width="1212" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>Lee speaking at a rally in support of the <a href="/wiki/Bernie_Sanders_presidential_campaign,_2016" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, 2016">presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders</a> in <a href="/wiki/Washington_Square_Park" title="Washington Square Park">Washington Square Park</a>, April 2016</figcaption></figure> <p>In May 1999, the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Post" title="New York Post">New York Post</a></i> reported that Lee made an inflammatory comment about <a href="/wiki/Charlton_Heston" title="Charlton Heston">Charlton Heston</a>, president of the <a href="/wiki/National_Rifle_Association_of_America" class="mw-redirect" title="National Rifle Association of America">National Rifle Association of America</a> (NRA), while speaking to reporters at the <a href="/wiki/Cannes_Film_Festival" title="Cannes Film Festival">Cannes Film Festival</a>. Lee was quoted as saying the National Rifle Association should be disbanded and, of Heston, someone should "Shoot him with a <a href="/wiki/Charter_Arms_Bulldog" title="Charter Arms Bulldog">.44 Bull Dog</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee said he intended it as a joke. He was responding to coverage about whether Hollywood was responsible for school shootings. "The problem is guns", he said.<sup id="cite_ref-Salon_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Salon-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">House</a> <a href="/wiki/Majority_Leader" class="mw-redirect" title="Majority Leader">Majority Leader</a> <a href="/wiki/Dick_Armey" title="Dick Armey">Dick Armey</a> condemned Lee as having "nothing to offer the debate on school violence except more violence and more hate".<sup id="cite_ref-Salon_100-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Salon-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2005, Lee responded to a <a href="/wiki/CNN" title="CNN">CNN</a> anchor's question as to whether the government intentionally ignored the plight of black Americans during the <a href="/wiki/Hurricane_Katrina#Federal_government" title="Hurricane Katrina">2005 Hurricane Katrina catastrophe</a> by saying, "It's not too far-fetched. I don't put anything past the United States government. I don't find it too far-fetched that they tried to displace all the black people out of <a href="/wiki/New_Orleans" title="New Orleans">New Orleans</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In later comments, Lee cited the government's past including the <a href="/wiki/Tuskegee_Syphilis_Study" title="Tuskegee Syphilis Study">Tuskegee Syphilis Study</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2020, Lee published a three-minute short film, <i>NEW YORK NEW YORK</i>, on <a href="/wiki/Instagram" title="Instagram">Instagram</a><sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> that was later featured on the city's official website.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee celebrated <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a>'s victory over <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_Presidential_election" class="mw-redirect" title="2020 United States Presidential election">2020 presidential election</a> with champagne amid a crowd on the streets of <a href="/wiki/Brooklyn" title="Brooklyn">Brooklyn</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee endorsed <a href="/wiki/Kamala_Harris" title="Kamala Harris">Kamala Harris</a> in the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_States_presidential_election" title="2024 United States presidential election">2024 United States presidential election</a> and spoke at one of her campaign rallies on October 24, 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Legal_issues">Legal issues</h3></div> <p>In March 2012, after the <a href="/wiki/Killing_of_Trayvon_Martin" title="Killing of Trayvon Martin">killing of Trayvon Martin</a>, Spike Lee was one of many people who used Twitter to circulate a message that claimed to give the home address of the shooter <a href="/wiki/George_Zimmerman" title="George Zimmerman">George Zimmerman</a>. The address turned out to be incorrect, causing the real occupants, Elaine and David McClain, to leave home and stay at a hotel due to numerous death threats.<sup id="cite_ref-tsgtwit_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tsgtwit-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee issued an apology and reached an agreement with the McClains, which reportedly included "compensation", with their attorney stating "The McClains' claim is fully resolved".<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, in November 2013, the McClains filed a negligence lawsuit which accused Lee of "encouraging a dangerous mob mentality among his Twitter followers, as well as the public-at-large".<sup id="cite_ref-tsgtwit_109-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tsgtwit-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The lawsuit, which a court filing reportedly valued at $1.2 million, alleged that the couple suffered "injuries and damages" that continued after the initial settlement up through <a href="/wiki/State_of_Florida_v._George_Zimmerman" class="mw-redirect" title="State of Florida v. George Zimmerman">Zimmerman's trial</a> in 2013.<sup id="cite_ref-tsgtwit_109-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-tsgtwit-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A Seminole County judge dismissed the McClains' suit, agreeing with Lee that the issue had already been settled previously.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Controversies">Controversies</h2></div> <p>At the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Lee, who was then making <i><a href="/wiki/Miracle_at_St._Anna" title="Miracle at St. Anna">Miracle at St. Anna</a>,</i> about an all-black U.S. division fighting in Italy during <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, criticized director <a href="/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" title="Clint Eastwood">Clint Eastwood</a> for not depicting black Marines in his own World War II film, <i><a href="/wiki/Flags_of_Our_Fathers_(film)" title="Flags of Our Fathers (film)">Flags of Our Fathers</a></i>. Citing historical accuracy, Eastwood responded that his film was specifically about the Marines who raised the flag on <a href="/wiki/Mount_Suribachi" title="Mount Suribachi">Mount Suribachi</a> at <a href="/wiki/Iwo_Jima" title="Iwo Jima">Iwo Jima</a>, pointing out that while black Marines did fight at Iwo Jima, the U.S. military was <a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation" title="Racial segregation">racially segregated</a> during World War II, and none of the men who raised the flag were black. He angrily said that Lee should "shut his face". Lee responded that Eastwood was acting like an "angry old man", and argued that despite making two Iwo Jima films back to back, <i><a href="/wiki/Letters_from_Iwo_Jima" title="Letters from Iwo Jima">Letters from Iwo Jima</a></i> and <i>Flags of Our Fathers</i>, "there was not one black soldier in both of those films".<sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-thr_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thr-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He added that he and Eastwood were "not on a plantation".<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee later claimed that the event was exaggerated by the media and that he and Eastwood had reconciled through mutual friend <a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a>, culminating in his sending Eastwood a print of <i>Miracle at St. Anna</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lee has been criticized for his representation of women. For example, <a href="/wiki/Bell_hooks" title="Bell hooks">bell hooks</a> said that he wrote black women in the same objectifying way that white male filmmakers write the characters of white women.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Rosie_Perez" title="Rosie Perez">Rosie Perez</a>, who was in an acting role for the first time as Tina in <i>Do the Right Thing</i>, said later that she was very uncomfortable with doing the nude scene in the film, saying, "I had a big problem with it, mainly because I was afraid of what my family would think...It wasn't really about taking off my clothes. But I also didn't feel good about it because the atmosphere wasn't correct."<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Subsequently, Perez stated that Lee had offered an apology, and the two maintained their friendship.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Over the course of his career Spike Lee has defended <a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson" title="Michael Jackson">Michael Jackson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nate_Parker" title="Nate Parker">Nate Parker</a>, all of whom have been accused of <a href="/wiki/Sexual_misconduct" title="Sexual misconduct">sexual misconduct</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Filmography">Filmography</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Spike_Lee_filmography" class="mw-redirect" title="Spike Lee filmography">Spike Lee filmography</a></div> <table class="wikitable"> <caption>Directed features </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Title </th> <th>Distributor </th></tr> <tr> <td>1986 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/She%27s_Gotta_Have_It" title="She's Gotta Have It">She's Gotta Have It</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Island_Pictures" class="mw-redirect" title="Island Pictures">Island Pictures</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1988 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/School_Daze" title="School Daze">School Daze</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Columbia_Pictures" title="Columbia Pictures">Columbia Pictures</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1989 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Do_the_Right_Thing" title="Do the Right Thing">Do the Right Thing</a></i> </td> <td rowspan="3"><a href="/wiki/Universal_Pictures" title="Universal Pictures">Universal Pictures</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1990 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Mo%27_Better_Blues" title="Mo' Better Blues">Mo' Better Blues</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1991 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Jungle_Fever" title="Jungle Fever">Jungle Fever</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1992 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_X_(1992_film)" title="Malcolm X (1992 film)">Malcolm X</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1994 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Crooklyn" title="Crooklyn">Crooklyn</a></i> </td> <td rowspan="2">Universal Pictures </td></tr> <tr> <td>1995 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Clockers_(film)" title="Clockers (film)">Clockers</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1996 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Girl_6" title="Girl 6">Girl 6</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/20th_Century_Fox" class="mw-redirect" title="20th Century Fox">20th Century Fox</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Get_on_the_Bus" title="Get on the Bus">Get on the Bus</a></i> </td> <td>Columbia Pictures </td></tr> <tr> <td>1998 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/He_Got_Game" title="He Got Game">He Got Game</a></i> </td> <td rowspan="2"><a href="/wiki/Touchstone_Pictures" title="Touchstone Pictures">Touchstone Pictures</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>1999 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Summer_of_Sam" title="Summer of Sam">Summer of Sam</a></i> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2000 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Bamboozled" title="Bamboozled">Bamboozled</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/New_Line_Cinema" title="New Line Cinema">New Line Cinema</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2002 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/25th_Hour" title="25th Hour">25th Hour</a></i> </td> <td>Touchstone Pictures </td></tr> <tr> <td>2004 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/She_Hate_Me" title="She Hate Me">She Hate Me</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sony_Pictures_Classics" title="Sony Pictures Classics">Sony Pictures Classics</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2006 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Inside_Man" title="Inside Man">Inside Man</a></i> </td> <td>Universal Pictures </td></tr> <tr> <td>2008 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Miracle_at_St._Anna" title="Miracle at St. Anna">Miracle at St. Anna</a></i> </td> <td>Touchstone Pictures </td></tr> <tr> <td>2012 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Red_Hook_Summer" title="Red Hook Summer">Red Hook Summer</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Variance_Films" title="Variance Films">Variance Films</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2013 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Oldboy_(2013_film)" title="Oldboy (2013 film)">Oldboy</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/FilmDistrict" title="FilmDistrict">FilmDistrict</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2014 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Da_Sweet_Blood_of_Jesus" title="Da Sweet Blood of Jesus">Da Sweet Blood of Jesus</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Gravitas_Ventures" title="Gravitas Ventures">Gravitas Ventures</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2015 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Chi-Raq" title="Chi-Raq">Chi-Raq</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Roadside_Attractions" title="Roadside Attractions">Roadside Attractions</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2018 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/BlacKkKlansman" title="BlacKkKlansman">BlacKkKlansman</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Focus_Features" title="Focus Features">Focus Features</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2020 </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Da_5_Bloods" title="Da 5 Bloods">Da 5 Bloods</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Netflix" title="Netflix">Netflix</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>TBA </td> <td><i><a href="/wiki/Highest_2_Lowest" title="Highest 2 Lowest">Highest 2 Lowest</a></i> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/A24" title="A24">A24</a><br /><a href="/wiki/Apple_TV" title="Apple TV">Apple TV</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_honors">Awards and honors</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/List_of_awards_and_nominations_received_by_Spike_Lee" title="List of awards and nominations received by Spike Lee">List of awards and nominations received by Spike Lee</a></div> <p>In 1983, Lee won the <a href="/wiki/Student_Academy_Awards" title="Student Academy Awards">Student Academy Award</a> for his film <i>Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He won awards at the <a href="/wiki/Black_Reel_Awards" title="Black Reel Awards">Black Reel Awards</a> for <i>Love and Basketball</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the <a href="/wiki/Black_Movie_Awards" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Movie Awards">Black Movie Awards</a> for <i>Inside Man</i>, and the <a href="/wiki/Berlin_International_Film_Festival" title="Berlin International Film Festival">Berlin International Film Festival</a> for <i>Get on the Bus</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He won <a href="/wiki/BAFTA_Award_for_Best_Adapted_Screenplay" title="BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay">BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay</a> for <i><a href="/wiki/BlacKkKlansman" title="BlacKkKlansman">BlacKkKlansman</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Lee was nominated for <a href="/wiki/Academy_Awards" title="Academy Awards">Academy Awards</a> for Best Original Screenplay for <i>Do the Right Thing</i><sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Best Documentary for <i>4 Little Girls</i>, but did not win either award. In November 2015, he was given the <a href="/wiki/Academy_Honorary_Award" title="Academy Honorary Award">Academy Honorary Award</a> for his contributions to filmmaking.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2019, he received his first Best Picture and Best Director nominations.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2015, at the age of 58, Lee became the youngest person ever to receive an <a href="/wiki/Honorary_Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Honorary Academy Award">Honorary Academy Award</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Lee received the award as "a champion of independent film and an inspiration to young filmmakers". Frequent collaborators <a href="/wiki/Denzel_Washington" title="Denzel Washington">Denzel Washington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Samuel_L._Jackson" title="Samuel L. Jackson">Samuel L. Jackson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Wesley_Snipes" title="Wesley Snipes">Wesley Snipes</a> presented Lee with the award at a private ceremony at the <a href="/wiki/Governors_Awards" title="Governors Awards">Governors Awards</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2019, Lee's film <i><a href="/wiki/BlacKkKlansman" title="BlacKkKlansman">BlacKkKlansman</a></i> went on to receive 6 <a href="/wiki/Academy_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Academy Award">Academy Award</a> nominations. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7j0SqSn14A">the original</a> on October 28, 2021<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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November 7, 2020. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201108011229/https://popculture.com/trending/news/watch-spike-lee-pops-bottle-champagne-brooklyn-donald-trump-loss-joe-biden">Archived</a> from the original on November 8, 2020<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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It</a></i> (1986)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/School_Daze" title="School Daze">School Daze</a></i> (1988)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Do_the_Right_Thing" title="Do the Right Thing">Do the Right Thing</a></i> (1989)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Mo%27_Better_Blues" title="Mo' Better Blues">Mo' Better Blues</a></i> (1990)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jungle_Fever" title="Jungle Fever">Jungle Fever</a></i> (1991)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_X_(1992_film)" title="Malcolm X (1992 film)">Malcolm X</a></i> (1992)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Crooklyn" title="Crooklyn">Crooklyn</a></i> (1994)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Clockers_(film)" title="Clockers (film)">Clockers</a></i> (1995)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Girl_6" title="Girl 6">Girl 6</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Get_on_the_Bus" title="Get on the Bus">Get on the Bus</a></i> (1996)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/He_Got_Game" title="He Got Game">He Got Game</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Summer_of_Sam" title="Summer of Sam">Summer of Sam</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bamboozled" title="Bamboozled">Bamboozled</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/25th_Hour" title="25th Hour">25th Hour</a></i> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/She_Hate_Me" title="She Hate Me">She Hate Me</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Inside_Man" title="Inside Man">Inside Man</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Miracle_at_St._Anna" title="Miracle at St. Anna">Miracle at St. Anna</a></i> (2008)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Red_Hook_Summer" title="Red Hook Summer">Red Hook Summer</a></i> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Oldboy_(2013_film)" title="Oldboy (2013 film)">Oldboy</a></i> (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Da_Sweet_Blood_of_Jesus" title="Da Sweet Blood of Jesus">Da Sweet Blood of Jesus</a></i> (2014)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Chi-Raq" title="Chi-Raq">Chi-Raq</a></i> (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/BlacKkKlansman" title="BlacKkKlansman">BlacKkKlansman</a></i> (2018)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Da_5_Bloods" title="Da 5 Bloods">Da 5 Bloods</a></i> (2020)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Highest_2_Lowest" title="Highest 2 Lowest">Highest 2 Lowest</a></i> (2025)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Documentaries and<br />filmed staged productions</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/4_Little_Girls" title="4 Little Girls">4 Little Girls</a></i> (1997)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Freak_(film)" class="mw-redirect" title="Freak (film)">Freak</a></i> (1998)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Original_Kings_of_Comedy" title="The Original Kings of Comedy">The Original Kings of Comedy</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Huey_P._Newton_Story" title="A Huey P. Newton Story">A Huey P. Newton Story</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Jim_Brown:_All-American" title="Jim Brown: All-American">Jim Brown: All-American</a></i> (2002)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/When_the_Levees_Broke" title="When the Levees Broke">When the Levees Broke</a></i> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Kobe_Doin%27_Work" title="Kobe Doin' Work">Kobe Doin' Work</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Passing_Strange" title="Passing Strange">Passing Strange</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/If_God_Is_Willing_and_da_Creek_Don%27t_Rise" title="If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise">If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise</a></i> (2010)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Bad_25_(film)" title="Bad 25 (film)">Bad 25</a></i> (2012)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jackson%27s_Journey_from_Motown_to_Off_the_Wall" title="Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall">Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall</a></i> (2016)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Rodney_King_(film)" title="Rodney King (film)">Rodney King</a></i> (2017)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Pass_Over" title="Pass Over">Pass Over</a></i> (2018)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/American_Utopia_(film)" title="American Utopia (film)">American Utopia</a></i> (2020)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Other films</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Joe%27s_Bed-Stuy_Barbershop:_We_Cut_Heads" title="Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads">Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads</a></i> (1983)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Lumi%C3%A8re_and_Company" title="Lumière and Company">Lumière and Company</a></i> (1995, segment)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Concert_for_New_York_City" title="The Concert for New York City">The Concert for New York City</a></i> (2001, segment "Come Rain or Come Shine")</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ten_Minutes_Older" title="Ten Minutes Older">Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet</a></i> (2002, segment "We Wuz Robbed")</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/All_the_Invisible_Children" title="All the Invisible Children">All the Invisible Children</a></i> (2005, segment "Jesus Children of America")</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Films<br />produced</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Best_Man_(1999_film)" title="The Best Man (1999 film)">The Best Man</a></i> (1999)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Love_%26_Basketball" title="Love & Basketball">Love & Basketball</a></i> (2000)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/3_A.M._(2001_film)" title="3 A.M. (2001 film)">3 A.M.</a></i> (2001)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Saint_John_of_Las_Vegas" title="Saint John of Las Vegas">Saint John of Las Vegas</a></i> (2009)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/You%27re_Nobody_%27til_Somebody_Kills_You" title="You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You">You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You</a></i> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Amazing_Grace_(2018_film)" title="Amazing Grace (2018 film)">Amazing Grace</a></i> (2018)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/See_You_Yesterday" title="See You Yesterday">See You Yesterday</a></i> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Television</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/Sucker_Free_City" title="Sucker Free City">Sucker Free City</a></i> (2004)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/She%27s_Gotta_Have_It_(TV_series)" title="She's Gotta Have It (TV series)">She's Gotta Have It</a></i> (2017–19)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/NYC_Epicenters_9/11%E2%86%922021%C2%BD" title="NYC Epicenters 9/11→2021½">NYC Epicenters 9/11→2021½</a></i> (2021)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/40_Acres_and_a_Mule_Filmworks" title="40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks">40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Lee_(musician)" title="Bill Lee (musician)">Bill Lee (father)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tonya_Lewis_Lee" title="Tonya Lewis Lee">Tonya Lewis Lee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Lee_(still_photographer)" title="David Lee (still photographer)">David Lee (brother)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joie_Lee" title="Joie Lee">Joie Lee (sister)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cinqu%C3%A9_Lee" title="Cinqué Lee">Cinqué Lee (brother)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malcolm_D._Lee" title="Malcolm D. Lee">Malcolm D. 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Burke">Edwin J. Burke</a> (1932)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Victor_Heerman" title="Victor Heerman">Victor Heerman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sarah_Y._Mason" title="Sarah Y. Mason">Sarah Y. Mason</a> (1933)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Riskin" title="Robert Riskin">Robert Riskin</a> (1934)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dudley_Nichols" title="Dudley Nichols">Dudley Nichols</a> (1935)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Collings" title="Pierre Collings">Pierre Collings</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sheridan_Gibney" title="Sheridan Gibney">Sheridan Gibney</a> (1936)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap">Heinz Herald, Geza Herczeg, and <a href="/wiki/Norman_Reilly_Raine" title="Norman Reilly Raine">Norman Reilly Raine</a> (1937)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ian_Dalrymple" title="Ian Dalrymple">Ian Dalrymple</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cecil_Arthur_Lewis" title="Cecil Arthur Lewis">Cecil Arthur Lewis</a>, <a href="/wiki/W._P._Lipscomb" title="W. P. Lipscomb">W. P. Lipscomb</a>, and <a href="/wiki/George_Bernard_Shaw" title="George Bernard Shaw">George Bernard Shaw</a> (1938)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Howard" title="Sidney Howard">Sidney Howard</a> (1939)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Donald_Ogden_Stewart" title="Donald Ogden Stewart">Donald Ogden Stewart</a> (1940)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Buchman" title="Sidney Buchman">Sidney Buchman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Seton_I._Miller" title="Seton I. Miller">Seton I. Miller</a> (1941)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Froeschel" title="George Froeschel">George Froeschel</a>, <a href="/wiki/James_Hilton_(novelist)" title="James Hilton (novelist)">James Hilton</a>, <a href="/wiki/Claudine_West" title="Claudine West">Claudine West</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Wimperis" title="Arthur Wimperis">Arthur Wimperis</a> (1942)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Philip_G._Epstein" title="Philip G. Epstein">Philip G. Epstein</a>, <a href="/wiki/Julius_J._Epstein" title="Julius J. Epstein">Julius J. Epstein</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Howard_Koch_(screenwriter)" title="Howard Koch (screenwriter)">Howard Koch</a> (1943)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Frank_Butler_(writer)" title="Frank Butler (writer)">Frank Butler</a> and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Cavett" title="Frank Cavett">Frank Cavett</a> (1944)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Brackett" title="Charles Brackett">Charles Brackett</a> and <a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a> (1945)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_E._Sherwood" title="Robert E. Sherwood">Robert Sherwood</a> (1946)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Seaton" title="George Seaton">George Seaton</a> (1947)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Huston" title="John Huston">John Huston</a> (1948)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Mankiewicz" title="Joseph L. Mankiewicz">Joseph L. Mankiewicz</a> (1949)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Mankiewicz" title="Joseph L. Mankiewicz">Joseph L. Mankiewicz</a> (1950)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1951–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Harry_Brown_(writer)" title="Harry Brown (writer)">Harry Brown</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Wilson_(writer)" title="Michael Wilson (writer)">Michael Wilson</a> (1951)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charles_Schnee" title="Charles Schnee">Charles Schnee</a> (1952)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Taradash" title="Daniel Taradash">Daniel Taradash</a> (1953)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Seaton" title="George Seaton">George Seaton</a> (1954)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paddy_Chayefsky" title="Paddy Chayefsky">Paddy Chayefsky</a> (1955)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Farrow" title="John Farrow">John Farrow</a>, <a href="/wiki/S._J._Perelman" title="S. J. Perelman">S. J. Perelman</a>, and <a href="/wiki/James_Poe" title="James Poe">James Poe</a> (1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Boulle" title="Pierre Boulle">Pierre Boulle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Carl_Foreman" title="Carl Foreman">Carl Foreman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Michael_Wilson_(writer)" title="Michael Wilson (writer)">Michael Wilson</a> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Jay_Lerner" title="Alan Jay Lerner">Alan Jay Lerner</a> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Neil_Paterson_(writer)" title="Neil Paterson (writer)">Neil Paterson</a> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Brooks" title="Richard Brooks">Richard Brooks</a> (1960)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Abby_Mann" title="Abby Mann">Abby Mann</a> (1961)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Horton_Foote" title="Horton Foote">Horton Foote</a> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Osborne" title="John Osborne">John Osborne</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Anhalt" title="Edward Anhalt">Edward Anhalt</a> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bolt" title="Robert Bolt">Robert Bolt</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Bolt" title="Robert Bolt">Robert Bolt</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Stirling_Silliphant" title="Stirling Silliphant">Stirling Silliphant</a> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Goldman" title="James Goldman">James Goldman</a> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Waldo_Salt" title="Waldo Salt">Waldo Salt</a> (1969)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ring_Lardner_Jr." title="Ring Lardner Jr.">Ring Lardner Jr.</a> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Tidyman" title="Ernest Tidyman">Ernest Tidyman</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola" title="Francis Ford Coppola">Francis Ford Coppola</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mario_Puzo" title="Mario Puzo">Mario Puzo</a> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Peter_Blatty" title="William Peter Blatty">William Peter Blatty</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola" title="Francis Ford Coppola">Francis Ford Coppola</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mario_Puzo" title="Mario Puzo">Mario Puzo</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bo_Goldman" title="Bo Goldman">Bo Goldman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lawrence_Hauben" title="Lawrence Hauben">Lawrence Hauben</a> (1975)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Goldman" title="William Goldman">William Goldman</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Sargent" title="Alvin Sargent">Alvin Sargent</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Oliver_Stone" title="Oliver Stone">Oliver Stone</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Benton" title="Robert Benton">Robert Benton</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alvin_Sargent" title="Alvin Sargent">Alvin Sargent</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Thompson" title="Ernest Thompson">Ernest Thompson</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Costa-Gavras" title="Costa-Gavras">Costa-Gavras</a> and <a href="/wiki/Donald_E._Stewart" title="Donald E. Stewart">Donald E. Stewart</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_L._Brooks" title="James L. Brooks">James L. Brooks</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Shaffer" title="Peter Shaffer">Peter Shaffer</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Luedtke" title="Kurt Luedtke">Kurt Luedtke</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala" title="Ruth Prawer Jhabvala">Ruth Prawer Jhabvala</a> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bernardo_Bertolucci" title="Bernardo Bertolucci">Bernardo Bertolucci</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mark_Peploe" title="Mark Peploe">Mark Peploe</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hampton" title="Christopher Hampton">Christopher Hampton</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Uhry" title="Alfred Uhry">Alfred Uhry</a> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Blake_(author)" title="Michael Blake (author)">Michael Blake</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ted_Tally" title="Ted Tally">Ted Tally</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Prawer_Jhabvala" title="Ruth Prawer Jhabvala">Ruth Prawer Jhabvala</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Steven_Zaillian" title="Steven Zaillian">Steven Zaillian</a> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Eric_Roth" title="Eric Roth">Eric Roth</a> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Emma_Thompson" title="Emma Thompson">Emma Thompson</a> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Billy_Bob_Thornton" title="Billy Bob Thornton">Billy Bob Thornton</a> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Curtis_Hanson" title="Curtis Hanson">Curtis Hanson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Brian_Helgeland" title="Brian Helgeland">Brian Helgeland</a> (1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bill_Condon" title="Bill Condon">Bill Condon</a> (1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Irving" title="John Irving">John Irving</a> (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Stephen_Gaghan" title="Stephen Gaghan">Stephen Gaghan</a> (2000)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Akiva_Goldsman" title="Akiva Goldsman">Akiva Goldsman</a> (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ronald_Harwood" title="Ronald Harwood">Ronald Harwood</a> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Philippa_Boyens" title="Philippa Boyens">Philippa Boyens</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Jackson" title="Peter Jackson">Peter Jackson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Fran_Walsh" title="Fran Walsh">Fran Walsh</a> (2003)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Payne" title="Alexander Payne">Alexander Payne</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jim_Taylor_(writer)" title="Jim Taylor (writer)">Jim Taylor</a> (2004)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Larry_McMurtry" title="Larry McMurtry">Larry McMurtry</a> and <a href="/wiki/Diana_Ossana" title="Diana Ossana">Diana Ossana</a> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Monahan" title="William Monahan">William Monahan</a> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Coen_brothers" title="Coen brothers">Joel Coen and Ethan Coen</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Simon_Beaufoy" title="Simon Beaufoy">Simon Beaufoy</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_S._Fletcher" title="Geoffrey S. Fletcher">Geoffrey S. Fletcher</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Sorkin" title="Aaron Sorkin">Aaron Sorkin</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Payne" title="Alexander Payne">Alexander Payne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jim_Rash" title="Jim Rash">Jim Rash</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nat_Faxon" title="Nat Faxon">Nat Faxon</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chris_Terrio" title="Chris Terrio">Chris Terrio</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Ridley" title="John Ridley">John Ridley</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Graham_Moore_(writer)" title="Graham Moore (writer)">Graham Moore</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Adam_McKay" title="Adam McKay">Adam McKay</a> and <a href="/wiki/Charles_Randolph" title="Charles Randolph">Charles Randolph</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Barry_Jenkins" title="Barry Jenkins">Barry Jenkins</a> and <a href="/wiki/Tarell_Alvin_McCraney" title="Tarell Alvin McCraney">Tarell Alvin McCraney</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Ivory" title="James Ivory">James Ivory</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Wachtel" title="Charlie Wachtel">Charlie Wachtel</a>, David Rabinowitz, <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Willmott" title="Kevin Willmott">Kevin Willmott</a> and <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Spike Lee</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Taika_Waititi" title="Taika Waititi">Taika Waititi</a> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hampton" title="Christopher Hampton">Christopher Hampton</a> and <a href="/wiki/Florian_Zeller" title="Florian Zeller">Florian Zeller</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sian_Heder" title="Sian Heder">Sian Heder</a> (2021)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sarah_Polley" title="Sarah Polley">Sarah Polley</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cord_Jefferson" title="Cord Jefferson">Cord Jefferson</a> (2023)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Academy_Honorary_Award73" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background: #EEDD82"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Academy_Honorary_Award" title="Template:Academy Honorary Award"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Academy_Honorary_Award" title="Template talk:Academy Honorary Award"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Academy_Honorary_Award" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Academy Honorary Award"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Academy_Honorary_Award73" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Academy_Honorary_Award" title="Academy Honorary Award">Academy Honorary Award</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1928–1950</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Warner_Bros." title="Warner Bros.">Warner Bros.</a> / <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a> (1928)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> (1932)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shirley_Temple" title="Shirley Temple">Shirley Temple</a> (1934)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/D._W._Griffith" title="D. W. Griffith">D. W. Griffith</a> (1935)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_March_of_Time" title="The March of Time">The March of Time</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/W._Howard_Greene" title="W. Howard Greene">W. Howard Greene</a> and <a href="/wiki/Harold_Rosson" title="Harold Rosson">Harold Rosson</a> (1936)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Bergen" title="Edgar Bergen">Edgar Bergen</a> / <a href="/wiki/W._Howard_Greene" title="W. Howard Greene">W. Howard Greene</a> / <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art_Department_of_Film" title="Museum of Modern Art Department of Film">Museum of Modern Art Film Library</a> / <a href="/wiki/Mack_Sennett" title="Mack Sennett">Mack Sennett</a> (1937)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_A._Ball_(inventor)" title="Joseph A. Ball (inventor)">J. Arthur Ball</a> / <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> / <a href="/wiki/Deanna_Durbin" title="Deanna Durbin">Deanna Durbin</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mickey_Rooney" title="Mickey Rooney">Mickey Rooney</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gordon_Jennings" title="Gordon Jennings">Gordon Jennings</a>, <a href="/wiki/Jan_Domela" title="Jan Domela">Jan Domela</a>, Devereaux Jennings, Irmin Roberts, Art Smith, <a href="/wiki/Farciot_Edouart" title="Farciot Edouart">Farciot Edouart</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loyal_Griggs" title="Loyal Griggs">Loyal Griggs</a>, <a href="/wiki/Loren_L._Ryder" title="Loren L. Ryder">Loren L. Ryder</a>, Harry D. Mills, <a href="/wiki/Louis_Mesenkop" title="Louis Mesenkop">Louis Mesenkop</a>, Walter Oberst / <a href="/wiki/Oliver_T._Marsh" title="Oliver T. Marsh">Oliver T. Marsh</a> and Allen Davey / <a href="/wiki/Harry_Warner" title="Harry Warner">Harry Warner</a> (1938)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_Fairbanks" title="Douglas Fairbanks">Douglas Fairbanks</a> / <a href="/wiki/Judy_Garland" title="Judy Garland">Judy Garland</a> / <a href="/wiki/William_Cameron_Menzies" title="William Cameron Menzies">William Cameron Menzies</a> / <a href="/wiki/Motion_Picture_%26_Television_Fund" title="Motion Picture & Television Fund">Motion Picture Relief Fund</a> (<a href="/wiki/Jean_Hersholt" title="Jean Hersholt">Jean Hersholt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Morgan" title="Ralph Morgan">Ralph Morgan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ralph_Block" title="Ralph Block">Ralph Block</a>, <a href="/wiki/Conrad_Nagel" title="Conrad Nagel">Conrad Nagel</a>) / <a href="/wiki/Vantiva" title="Vantiva">Technicolor SA</a> (1939)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> / <a href="/wiki/Nathan_Levinson" title="Nathan Levinson">Nathan Levinson</a> (1940)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Garity" title="William Garity">William Garity</a>, John N. A. Hawkins, and the <a href="/wiki/RCA" title="RCA">RCA Manufacturing Company</a> / <a href="/wiki/Leopold_Stokowski" title="Leopold Stokowski">Leopold Stokowski</a> and his associates / Rey Scott / <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Information_(United_Kingdom)" title="Ministry of Information (United Kingdom)">British Ministry of Information</a> (1941)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Boyer" title="Charles Boyer">Charles Boyer</a> / <a href="/wiki/No%C3%ABl_Coward" title="Noël Coward">Noël Coward</a> / <a href="/wiki/Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer" title="Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer">Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer</a> (1942)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Pal" title="George Pal">George Pal</a> (1943)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> / <a href="/wiki/Margaret_O%27Brien" title="Margaret O'Brien">Margaret O'Brien</a> (1944)</li> <li>Republic Studio, <a href="/wiki/Daniel_J._Bloomberg" title="Daniel J. Bloomberg">Daniel J. Bloomberg</a>, and the Republic Studio Sound Department / <a href="/wiki/Walter_Wanger" title="Walter Wanger">Walter Wanger</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/The_House_I_Live_In_(1945_film)" title="The House I Live In (1945 film)">The House I Live In</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/Peggy_Ann_Garner" title="Peggy Ann Garner">Peggy Ann Garner</a> (1945)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Russell" title="Harold Russell">Harold Russell</a> / <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ernst_Lubitsch" title="Ernst Lubitsch">Ernst Lubitsch</a> / <a href="/wiki/Claude_Jarman_Jr." title="Claude Jarman Jr.">Claude Jarman Jr.</a> (1946)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Baskett" title="James Baskett">James Baskett</a> / <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Armat" title="Thomas Armat">Thomas Armat</a>, <a href="/wiki/William_Selig" title="William Selig">William Nicholas Selig</a>, <a href="/wiki/Albert_E._Smith_(producer)" title="Albert E. Smith (producer)">Albert E. Smith</a>, and <a href="/wiki/George_Kirke_Spoor" title="George Kirke Spoor">George Kirke Spoor</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Bill_and_Coo" title="Bill and Coo">Bill and Coo</a></i> / <i><a href="/wiki/Shoeshine_(film)" title="Shoeshine (film)">Shoeshine</a></i> (1947)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Wanger" title="Walter Wanger">Walter Wanger</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Monsieur_Vincent" title="Monsieur Vincent">Monsieur Vincent</a></i> / <a href="/wiki/Sid_Grauman" title="Sid Grauman">Sid Grauman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Adolph_Zukor" title="Adolph Zukor">Adolph Zukor</a> (1948)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Hersholt" title="Jean Hersholt">Jean Hersholt</a> / <a href="/wiki/Fred_Astaire" title="Fred Astaire">Fred Astaire</a> / <a href="/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille" title="Cecil B. DeMille">Cecil B. DeMille</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Bicycle_Thieves" title="Bicycle Thieves">The Bicycle Thief</a></i> (1949)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_B._Mayer" title="Louis B. Mayer">Louis B. Mayer</a> / <a href="/wiki/George_Murphy" title="George Murphy">George Murphy</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/The_Walls_of_Malapaga" title="The Walls of Malapaga">The Walls of Malapaga</a></i> (1950)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1951–1975</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Kelly" title="Gene Kelly">Gene Kelly</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Rashomon" title="Rashomon">Rashomon</a></i> (1951)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merian_C._Cooper" title="Merian C. Cooper">Merian C. Cooper</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> / <a href="/wiki/Harold_Lloyd" title="Harold Lloyd">Harold Lloyd</a> / George Mitchell / <a href="/wiki/Joseph_M._Schenck" title="Joseph M. Schenck">Joseph M. Schenck</a> / <i><a href="/wiki/Forbidden_Games" title="Forbidden Games">Forbidden Games</a></i> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/20th_Century_Studios" title="20th Century Studios">20th Century-Fox Film Corporation</a> / <a href="/wiki/Bell_%26_Howell" title="Bell & Howell">Bell & Howell Company</a> / <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Breen" title="Joseph Breen">Joseph Breen</a> / <a href="/wiki/Pete_Smith_(film_producer)" title="Pete Smith (film producer)">Pete Smith</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bausch_%26_Lomb" title="Bausch & Lomb">Bausch & Lomb Optical Company</a> / <a href="/wiki/Danny_Kaye" title="Danny Kaye">Danny Kaye</a> / Kemp Niver / <a href="/wiki/Greta_Garbo" title="Greta Garbo">Greta Garbo</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jon_Whiteley" title="Jon Whiteley">Jon Whiteley</a> / <a href="/wiki/Vincent_Winter" title="Vincent Winter">Vincent Winter</a> / <a href="/wiki/Gate_of_Hell_(film)" title="Gate of Hell (film)"><i>Gate of Hell</i></a> (1954)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Samurai_I:_Musashi_Miyamoto" title="Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto">Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto</a></i> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Cantor" title="Eddie Cantor">Eddie Cantor</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Society_of_Motion_Picture_and_Television_Engineers" title="Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers">Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers</a> / <a href="/wiki/Broncho_Billy_Anderson" title="Broncho Billy Anderson">Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson</a> / <a href="/wiki/Charles_Brackett" title="Charles Brackett">Charles Brackett</a> / <a href="/wiki/B._B._Kahane" title="B. B. Kahane">B. B. Kahane</a> (1957)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Chevalier" title="Maurice Chevalier">Maurice Chevalier</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buster_Keaton" title="Buster Keaton">Buster Keaton</a> / <a href="/wiki/Lee_de_Forest" title="Lee de Forest">Lee de Forest</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Cooper" title="Gary Cooper">Gary Cooper</a> / <a href="/wiki/Stan_Laurel" title="Stan Laurel">Stan Laurel</a> / <a href="/wiki/Hayley_Mills" title="Hayley Mills">Hayley Mills</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_L._Hendricks" title="William L. Hendricks">William L. Hendricks</a> / Fred L. Metzler / <a href="/wiki/Jerome_Robbins" title="Jerome Robbins">Jerome Robbins</a> (1961)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_J._Tuttle" title="William J. Tuttle">William J. Tuttle</a> (1964)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yakima_Canutt" title="Yakima Canutt">Yakima Canutt</a> / <a href="/wiki/Y._Frank_Freeman" title="Y. Frank Freeman">Y. Frank Freeman</a> (1966)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Freed" title="Arthur Freed">Arthur Freed</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Chambers_(make-up_artist)" title="John Chambers (make-up artist)">John Chambers</a> / <a href="/wiki/Onna_White" title="Onna White">Onna White</a> (1968)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cary_Grant" title="Cary Grant">Cary Grant</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lillian_Gish" title="Lillian Gish">Lillian Gish</a> / <a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a> (1970)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a> (1971)</li> <li>Charles S. Boren / <a href="/wiki/Edward_G._Robinson" title="Edward G. Robinson">Edward G. Robinson</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Langlois" title="Henri Langlois">Henri Langlois</a> / <a href="/wiki/Groucho_Marx" title="Groucho Marx">Groucho Marx</a> (1973)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Hawks" title="Howard Hawks">Howard Hawks</a> / <a href="/wiki/Jean_Renoir" title="Jean Renoir">Jean Renoir</a> (1974)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mary_Pickford" title="Mary Pickford">Mary Pickford</a> (1975)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Booth" title="Margaret Booth">Margaret Booth</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Lantz" title="Walter Lantz">Walter Lantz</a> / <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> / <a href="/wiki/King_Vidor" title="King Vidor">King Vidor</a> / <a href="/wiki/Museum_of_Modern_Art" title="Museum of Modern Art">Museum of Modern Art Department of Film</a> (1978)</li> <li>Hal Elias / <a href="/wiki/Alec_Guinness" title="Alec Guinness">Alec Guinness</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Fonda" title="Henry Fonda">Henry Fonda</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Stanwyck" title="Barbara Stanwyck">Barbara Stanwyck</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mickey_Rooney" title="Mickey Rooney">Mickey Rooney</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hal_Roach" title="Hal Roach">Hal Roach</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Stewart" title="James Stewart">James Stewart</a> / <a href="/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts" title="National Endowment for the Arts">National Endowment for the Arts</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Newman" title="Paul Newman">Paul Newman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Alex_North" title="Alex North">Alex North</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Bellamy" title="Ralph Bellamy">Ralph Bellamy</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kodak" title="Kodak">Eastman Kodak Company</a> / <a href="/wiki/National_Film_Board_of_Canada" title="National Film Board of Canada">National Film Board of Canada</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa" title="Akira Kurosawa">Akira Kurosawa</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophia_Loren" title="Sophia Loren">Sophia Loren</a> / <a href="/wiki/Myrna_Loy" title="Myrna Loy">Myrna Loy</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satyajit_Ray" title="Satyajit Ray">Satyajit Ray</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Federico_Fellini" title="Federico Fellini">Federico Fellini</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deborah_Kerr" title="Deborah Kerr">Deborah Kerr</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelangelo_Antonioni" title="Michelangelo Antonioni">Michelangelo Antonioni</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirk_Douglas" title="Kirk Douglas">Kirk Douglas</a> / <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Jones" title="Chuck Jones">Chuck Jones</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Kidd" title="Michael Kidd">Michael Kidd</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Donen" title="Stanley Donen">Stanley Donen</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elia_Kazan" title="Elia Kazan">Elia Kazan</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Wajda" title="Andrzej Wajda">Andrzej Wajda</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Cardiff" title="Jack Cardiff">Jack Cardiff</a> / <a href="/wiki/Ernest_Lehman" title="Ernest Lehman">Ernest Lehman</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #EEDD82;width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Poitier" title="Sidney Poitier">Sidney Poitier</a> / <a href="/wiki/Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford">Robert Redford</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_O%27Toole" title="Peter O'Toole">Peter O'Toole</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Blake_Edwards" title="Blake Edwards">Blake Edwards</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lumet" title="Sidney Lumet">Sidney Lumet</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Altman" title="Robert Altman">Robert Altman</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ennio_Morricone" title="Ennio Morricone">Ennio Morricone</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_F._Boyle" title="Robert F. 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Robinson</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Condon" title="Richard Condon">Richard Condon</a> and Janet Roach (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kurt_Luedtke" title="Kurt Luedtke">Kurt Luedtke</a> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Claude_Berri" title="Claude Berri">Claude Berri</a> and <a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Brach" title="Gérard Brach">Gérard Brach</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jean-Claude_Carri%C3%A8re" title="Jean-Claude Carrière">Jean-Claude Carrière</a> and <a href="/wiki/Philip_Kaufman" title="Philip Kaufman">Philip Kaufman</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Hampton" title="Christopher Hampton">Christopher Hampton</a> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Pileggi" title="Nicholas Pileggi">Nicholas Pileggi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dick_Clement" title="Dick Clement">Dick Clement</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roddy_Doyle" title="Roddy Doyle">Roddy Doyle</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Ian_La_Frenais" title="Ian La Frenais">Ian La Frenais</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Tolkin" title="Michael Tolkin">Michael Tolkin</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Steven_Zaillian" title="Steven Zaillian">Steven Zaillian</a> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Attanasio" title="Paul Attanasio">Paul Attanasio</a> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Hodge_(screenwriter)" title="John Hodge (screenwriter)">John Hodge</a> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Minghella" title="Anthony Minghella">Anthony Minghella</a> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Baz_Luhrmann" title="Baz Luhrmann">Baz Luhrmann</a> and <a 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DeMille">Cecil B. DeMille</a> (1952)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Ford" title="John Ford">John Ford</a> (1953)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_King_(director)" title="Henry King (director)">Henry King</a> (1955)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/King_Vidor" title="King Vidor">King Vidor</a> (1956)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Capra" title="Frank Capra">Frank Capra</a> (1958)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Stevens" title="George Stevens">George Stevens</a> (1959)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Borzage" title="Frank Borzage">Frank Borzage</a> (1960)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wyler" title="William Wyler">William Wyler</a> (1965)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock" title="Alfred Hitchcock">Alfred Hitchcock</a> (1967)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Zinnemann" title="Fred Zinnemann">Fred Zinnemann</a> (1969)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Lean" title="David Lean">David Lean</a> and <a href="/wiki/William_A._Wellman" title="William A. Wellman">William A. Wellman</a> (1972)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Cukor" title="George Cukor">George Cukor</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rouben_Mamoulian" title="Rouben Mamoulian">Rouben Mamoulian</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Huston" title="John Huston">John Huston</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Orson_Welles" title="Orson Welles">Orson Welles</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Mankiewicz" title="Joseph L. Mankiewicz">Joseph L. Mankiewicz</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elia_Kazan" title="Elia Kazan">Elia Kazan</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Wise" title="Robert Wise">Robert Wise</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman" title="Ingmar Bergman">Ingmar Bergman</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa" title="Akira Kurosawa">Akira Kurosawa</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lumet" title="Sidney Lumet">Sidney Lumet</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Altman" title="Robert Altman">Robert Altman</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Ivory" title="James Ivory">James Ivory</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick" title="Stanley Kubrick">Stanley Kubrick</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola" title="Francis Ford Coppola">Francis Ford Coppola</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols" title="Mike Nichols">Mike Nichols</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" title="Clint Eastwood">Clint Eastwood</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Norman_Jewison" title="Norman Jewison">Norman Jewison</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milo%C5%A1_Forman" title="Miloš Forman">Miloš Forman</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ridley_Scott" title="Ridley Scott">Ridley Scott</a> (2016)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Spike Lee</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ang_Lee" title="Ang Lee">Ang Lee</a> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Directing_for_a_Documentary/Nonfiction_Program165" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background: #F9EFAA;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:EmmyAward_NonfictionDirecting" title="Template:EmmyAward NonfictionDirecting"><abbr title="View this template">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:EmmyAward_NonfictionDirecting" title="Template talk:EmmyAward NonfictionDirecting"><abbr title="Discuss this template">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:EmmyAward_NonfictionDirecting" title="Special:EditPage/Template:EmmyAward NonfictionDirecting"><abbr title="Edit this template">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Directing_for_a_Documentary/Nonfiction_Program165" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Primetime_Emmy_Award_for_Outstanding_Directing_for_a_Documentary/Nonfiction_Program" title="Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program">Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program</a></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #F9EFAA;;width:1%">1979–1994</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Korty" title="John Korty">John Korty</a> (1979)</li> <li>Charles A. Bangert and <a href="/wiki/Alfred_R._Kelman" title="Alfred R. Kelman">Alfred R. Kelman</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emile_Ardolino" title="Emile Ardolino">Emile Ardolino</a> (1984)</li> <li>David Heeley (1986)</li> <li>Gene Lasko (1990)</li> <li>Bob Eisenhardt, <a href="/wiki/Susan_Froemke" title="Susan Froemke">Susan Froemke</a>, <a href="/wiki/Peter_Gelb" title="Peter Gelb">Peter Gelb</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Albert_and_David_Maysles" title="Albert and David Maysles">Albert Maysles</a> (1991)</li> <li>Fax Bahr, <a href="/wiki/George_Hickenlooper" title="George Hickenlooper">George Hickenlooper</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Eleanor_Coppola" title="Eleanor Coppola">Eleanor Coppola</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Couturi%C3%A9" title="Bill Couturié">Bill Couturié</a> / Lee Stanley (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robin_Lehman" title="Robin Lehman">Robin Lehman</a> (1994)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background: #F9EFAA;;width:1%">2003–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Nelson_Jr." title="Stanley Nelson Jr.">Stanley Nelson Jr.</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Davis_(director)" title="Kate Davis (director)">Kate Davis</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Miller_(filmmaker)" title="James Miller (filmmaker)">James Miller</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Alpert" title="Jon Alpert">Jon Alpert</a> and <a href="/wiki/Matthew_O%27Neill_(filmmaker)" title="Matthew O'Neill (filmmaker)">Matthew O'Neill</a> (2006)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Spike Lee</a> (2007)</li> <li>Adam Beckman and Christopher Wilcha (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marina_Zenovich" title="Marina Zenovich">Marina Zenovich</a> (2009)</li> <li>Barak Goodman (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josh_Fox" title="Josh Fox">Josh Fox</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> (2012)</li> <li>Robert Trachtenberg (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jehane_Noujaim" title="Jehane Noujaim">Jehane Noujaim</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Gibney" title="Alex Gibney">Alex Gibney</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moira_Demos" title="Moira Demos">Moira Demos</a> and <a href="/wiki/Laura_Ricciardi" title="Laura Ricciardi">Laura Ricciardi</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ezra_Edelman" title="Ezra Edelman">Ezra Edelman</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brett_Morgen" title="Brett Morgen">Brett Morgen</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Chai_Vasarhelyi" title="Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi">Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Chin" title="Jimmy Chin">Jimmy Chin</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Bognar" title="Steven Bognar">Steven Bognar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Julia_Reichert" title="Julia Reichert">Julia Reichert</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirsten_Johnson" title="Kirsten Johnson">Kirsten Johnson</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Jackson" title="Peter Jackson">Peter Jackson</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Davis_Guggenheim" title="Davis Guggenheim">Davis Guggenheim</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amanda_McBaine" title="Amanda McBaine">Amanda McBaine</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jesse_Moss_(filmmaker)" title="Jesse Moss (filmmaker)">Jesse Moss</a> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2" style="background: #F9EFAA;"><div>Between 1979–1994, the category was a juried award.</div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Film_Society_of_Lincoln_Center_Gala_Tribute_Honorees88" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" 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Society of Lincoln Center"> Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute Honorees</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Chaplin" title="Charlie Chaplin">Charlie Chaplin</a> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fred_Astaire" title="Fred Astaire">Fred Astaire</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock" title="Alfred Hitchcock">Alfred Hitchcock</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Joanne_Woodward" title="Joanne Woodward">Joanne Woodward</a> and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Newman" title="Paul Newman">Paul Newman</a> (1975)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Cukor" title="George Cukor">George Cukor</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hope" title="Bob Hope">Bob Hope</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Huston" title="John Huston">John Huston</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Stanwyck" title="Barbara Stanwyck">Barbara Stanwyck</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Billy_Wilder" title="Billy Wilder">Billy Wilder</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Laurence_Olivier" title="Laurence Olivier">Laurence Olivier</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Claudette_Colbert" title="Claudette Colbert">Claudette Colbert</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Federico_Fellini" title="Federico Fellini">Federico Fellini</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Elizabeth_Taylor" title="Elizabeth Taylor">Elizabeth Taylor</a> (1986) </span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alec_Guinness" title="Alec Guinness">Alec Guinness</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Yves_Montand" title="Yves Montand">Yves Montand</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bette_Davis" title="Bette Davis">Bette Davis</a> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Stewart" title="James Stewart">James Stewart</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Audrey_Hepburn" title="Audrey Hepburn">Audrey Hepburn</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Peck" title="Gregory Peck">Gregory Peck</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Lemmon" title="Jack Lemmon">Jack Lemmon</a> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Altman" title="Robert Altman">Robert Altman</a> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Shirley_MacLaine" title="Shirley MacLaine">Shirley MacLaine</a> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" title="Clint Eastwood">Clint Eastwood</a> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sean_Connery" title="Sean Connery">Sean Connery</a> (1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> (1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Nichols" title="Mike Nichols">Mike Nichols</a> (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Al_Pacino" title="Al Pacino">Al Pacino</a> (2000)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jane_Fonda" title="Jane Fonda">Jane Fonda</a> (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola" title="Francis Ford Coppola">Francis Ford Coppola</a> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Susan_Sarandon" title="Susan Sarandon">Susan Sarandon</a> (2003)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Caine" title="Michael Caine">Michael Caine</a> (2004)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Dustin_Hoffman" title="Dustin Hoffman">Dustin Hoffman</a> (2005) 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title="Rob Reiner">Rob Reiner</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford">Robert Redford</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Morgan_Freeman" title="Morgan Freeman">Morgan Freeman</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_De_Niro" title="Robert De Niro">Robert De Niro</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Helen_Mirren" title="Helen Mirren">Helen Mirren</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Spike Lee</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Cate_Blanchett" title="Cate Blanchett">Cate Blanchett</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Viola_Davis" title="Viola Davis">Viola Davis</a> (2023)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Bridges" title="Jeff Bridges">Jeff Bridges</a> (2024)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a 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Tati">Jacques Tati</a> (1977)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Dorfmann" title="Robert Dorfmann">Robert Dorfmann</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Goscinny" title="René Goscinny">René Goscinny</a> (1978)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcel_Carn%C3%A9" title="Marcel Carné">Marcel Carné</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Vanel" title="Charles Vanel">Charles Vanel</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney" title="Walt Disney">Walt Disney</a> (1979)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Braunberger" title="Pierre Braunberger">Pierre Braunberger</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_de_Fun%C3%A8s" title="Louis de Funès">Louis de Funès</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kirk_Douglas" title="Kirk Douglas">Kirk Douglas</a> (1980)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcel_Pagnol" title="Marcel Pagnol">Marcel Pagnol</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alain_Resnais" title="Alain Resnais">Alain Resnais</a> (1981)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_Dancigers" title="Georges Dancigers">Georges Dancigers</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexandre_Mnouchkine" title="Alexandre Mnouchkine">Alexandre Mnouchkine</a> (1982)</li> <li>Jean Nény (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrzej_Wajda" title="Andrzej Wajda">Andrzej Wajda</a> (1982)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raimu" title="Raimu">Raimu</a> (1983)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Cl%C3%A9ment" title="René Clément">René Clément</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Georges_de_Beauregard" title="Georges de Beauregard">Georges de Beauregard</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwige_Feuill%C3%A8re" title="Edwige Feuillère">Edwige Feuillère</a> (1984)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian-Jaque" title="Christian-Jaque">Christian-Jaque</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danielle_Darrieux" title="Danielle Darrieux">Danielle Darrieux</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christine_Gouze-R%C3%A9nal" title="Christine Gouze-Rénal">Christine Gouze-Rénal</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alain_Poir%C3%A9" title="Alain Poiré">Alain Poiré</a> (1985)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Jarre" title="Maurice Jarre">Maurice Jarre</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bette_Davis" title="Bette Davis">Bette Davis</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Delannoy" title="Jean Delannoy">Jean Delannoy</a> (1986)</li> <li>René Ferracci (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Lanzmann" title="Claude Lanzmann">Claude Lanzmann</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Luc_Godard" title="Jean-Luc Godard">Jean-Luc Godard</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serge_Silberman" title="Serge Silberman">Serge Silberman</a> (1988)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_Blier" title="Bernard Blier">Bernard Blier</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Grimault" title="Paul Grimault">Paul Grimault</a> (1989)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Philipe" title="Gérard Philipe">Gérard Philipe</a> (1990)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Aumont" title="Jean-Pierre Aumont">Jean-Pierre Aumont</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sophia_Loren" title="Sophia Loren">Sophia Loren</a> (1991)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mich%C3%A8le_Morgan" title="Michèle Morgan">Michèle Morgan</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvester_Stallone" title="Sylvester Stallone">Sylvester Stallone</a> (1992)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Marais" title="Jean Marais">Jean Marais</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcello_Mastroianni" title="Marcello Mastroianni">Marcello Mastroianni</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/G%C3%A9rard_Oury" title="Gérard Oury">Gérard Oury</a> (1993)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean_Carmet" title="Jean Carmet">Jean Carmet</a> (1994)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Moreau" title="Jeanne Moreau">Jeanne Moreau</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Peck" title="Gregory Peck">Gregory Peck</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a> (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Bacall" title="Lauren Bacall">Lauren Bacall</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henri_Verneuil" title="Henri Verneuil">Henri Verneuil</a> (1996)</li> 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Léaud</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> (2000)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Darry_Cowl" title="Darry Cowl">Darry Cowl</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlotte_Rampling" title="Charlotte Rampling">Charlotte Rampling</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s_Varda" title="Agnès Varda">Agnès Varda</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anouk_Aim%C3%A9e" title="Anouk Aimée">Anouk Aimée</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Irons" title="Jeremy Irons">Jeremy Irons</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Claude_Rich" title="Claude Rich">Claude Rich</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernadette_Lafont" title="Bernadette Lafont">Bernadette Lafont</a> (2003)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Spike Lee</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meryl_Streep" title="Meryl Streep">Meryl Streep</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Micheline_Presle" title="Micheline Presle">Micheline Presle</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacques_Dutronc" title="Jacques Dutronc">Jacques Dutronc</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Will_Smith" title="Will Smith">Will Smith</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Grant" title="Hugh Grant">Hugh Grant</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierre_Richard" title="Pierre Richard">Pierre Richard</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marl%C3%A8ne_Jobert" title="Marlène Jobert">Marlène Jobert</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jude_Law" title="Jude Law">Jude Law</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeanne_Moreau" title="Jeanne Moreau">Jeanne Moreau</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roberto_Benigni" title="Roberto Benigni">Roberto Benigni</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romy_Schneider" title="Romy Schneider">Romy Schneider</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dustin_Hoffman" title="Dustin Hoffman">Dustin Hoffman</a> (2009)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harrison_Ford" title="Harrison Ford">Harrison Ford</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino" title="Quentin Tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kate_Winslet" title="Kate Winslet">Kate Winslet</a> (2012)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Costner" title="Kevin Costner">Kevin Costner</a> (2013)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scarlett_Johansson" title="Scarlett Johansson">Scarlett Johansson</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sean_Penn" title="Sean Penn">Sean Penn</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Douglas" title="Michael Douglas">Michael Douglas</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Clooney" title="George Clooney">George Clooney</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pen%C3%A9lope_Cruz" title="Penélope Cruz">Penélope Cruz</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford">Robert Redford</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cate_Blanchett" title="Cate Blanchett">Cate Blanchett</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Fincher" title="David Fincher">David Fincher</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Agn%C3%A8s_Jaoui" title="Agnès Jaoui">Agnès Jaoui</a> (2024)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher Nolan</a> (2024)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julia_Roberts" title="Julia Roberts">Julia Roberts</a> (2025)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Costa-Gavras" title="Costa-Gavras">Costa-Gavras</a> (2025)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Humanitarian_Satellite_Award32" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" 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<li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Benton" title="Robert Benton">Robert Benton</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Roman_Polanski" title="Roman Polanski">Roman Polanski</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Warren_Beatty" title="Warren Beatty">Warren Beatty</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_L._Brooks" title="James L. Brooks">James L. Brooks</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Milo%C5%A1_Forman" title="Miloš Forman">Miloš Forman</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Terry_Gilliam" title="Terry Gilliam">Terry Gilliam</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Lynch" title="David Lynch">David Lynch</a> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Boorman" title="John Boorman">John Boorman</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Cronenberg" title="David Cronenberg">David Cronenberg</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Spike Lee</a> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Barry_Levinson" title="Barry Levinson">Barry Levinson</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" title="Clint Eastwood">Clint Eastwood</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jane_Campion" title="Jane Campion">Jane Campion</a> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino" title="Quentin Tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Figgis" title="Mike Figgis">Mike Figgis</a> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Mike_Leigh" title="Mike Leigh">Mike Leigh</a> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Curtis_Hanson" title="Curtis Hanson">Curtis Hanson</a> (1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a> (1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sam_Mendes" title="Sam Mendes">Sam Mendes</a> (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Steven_Soderbergh" title="Steven Soderbergh">Steven Soderbergh</a> (2000)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:;width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Lynch" title="David Lynch">David Lynch</a> (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Pedro_Almod%C3%B3var" title="Pedro Almodóvar">Pedro Almodóvar</a> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Peter_Jackson" title="Peter Jackson">Peter Jackson</a> (2003)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Payne" title="Alexander Payne">Alexander Payne</a> (2004)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ang_Lee" title="Ang Lee">Ang Lee</a> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Greengrass" title="Paul Greengrass">Paul Greengrass</a> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Thomas_Anderson" title="Paul Thomas Anderson">Paul Thomas Anderson</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Danny_Boyle" title="Danny Boyle">Danny Boyle</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Bigelow" title="Kathryn Bigelow">Kathryn Bigelow</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Olivier_Assayas" title="Olivier Assayas">Olivier Assayas</a> / <a href="/wiki/David_Fincher" title="David Fincher">David Fincher</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Terrence_Malick" title="Terrence Malick">Terrence Malick</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Thomas_Anderson" title="Paul Thomas Anderson">Paul Thomas Anderson</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alfonso_Cuar%C3%B3n" title="Alfonso Cuarón">Alfonso Cuarón</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Linklater" title="Richard Linklater">Richard Linklater</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Miller_(filmmaker)" title="George Miller (filmmaker)">George Miller</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Barry_Jenkins" title="Barry Jenkins">Barry Jenkins</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Guillermo_del_Toro" title="Guillermo del Toro">Guillermo del Toro</a> / <a href="/wiki/Luca_Guadagnino" title="Luca Guadagnino">Luca Guadagnino</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Debra_Granik" title="Debra Granik">Debra Granik</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bong_Joon-ho" title="Bong Joon-ho">Bong Joon-ho</a> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Chlo%C3%A9_Zhao" title="Chloé Zhao">Chloé Zhao</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jane_Campion" title="Jane Campion">Jane Campion</a> (2021)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Todd_Field" title="Todd Field">Todd Field</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span 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musician)">George Clinton</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Wilson_(jazz_singer)" title="Nancy Wilson (jazz singer)">Nancy Wilson</a> / <a href="/wiki/The_Isley_Brothers" title="The Isley Brothers">The Isley Brothers</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kathleen_Battle" title="Kathleen Battle">Kathleen Battle</a> (1999)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Poitier" title="Sidney Poitier">Sidney Poitier</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Little_Richard" title="Little Richard">Little Richard</a> (2002)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Spike Lee</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Charles" title="Ray Charles">Ray Charles</a> (2004)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oprah_Winfrey" title="Oprah Winfrey">Oprah Winfrey</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carlos_Santana" title="Carlos Santana">Carlos Santana</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Cosby" title="Bill Cosby">Bill Cosby</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stevie_Wonder" title="Stevie Wonder">Stevie Wonder</a> (2008)</li> <li><a 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navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ella_Fitzgerald" title="Ella Fitzgerald">Ella Fitzgerald</a> (1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jesse_Jackson" title="Jesse Jackson">Rev. Jesse Jackson</a> (1987)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jheryl_Busby" title="Jheryl Busby">Jheryl Busby</a> (1988)</li> <li>Antoinette Stroman & <a href="/wiki/Ryan_White" title="Ryan White">Ryan White</a> (1989)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">1990s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Kent Amos & Carmen Amos (1995)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bryant_Gumbel" title="Bryant Gumbel">Bryant Gumbel</a> (1996)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexis_Herman" title="Alexis Herman">Alexis Herman</a> (1997)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lauryn_Hill" title="Lauryn Hill">Lauryn Hill</a> (1998)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tavis_Smiley" title="Tavis Smiley">Tavis Smiley</a> & <a href="/wiki/Tom_Joyner" title="Tom Joyner">Tom Joyner</a> (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> (2000)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice" title="Condoleezza Rice">Condoleezza Rice</a> (2001)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Venus_Williams" title="Venus Williams">Venus</a> & <a href="/wiki/Serena_Williams" title="Serena Williams">Serena Williams</a> (2002)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/T._D._Jakes" title="T. D. Jakes">T. D. Jakes</a> (2003)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Susan_L._Taylor" title="Susan L. Taylor">Susan L. Taylor</a> (2005)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Soledad_O%27Brien" title="Soledad O'Brien">Soledad O'Brien</a> (2006)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruby_Dee" title="Ruby Dee">Ruby Dee</a> (2007)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali" title="Muhammad Ali">Muhammad Ali</a> (2008)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Van_Jones" title="Van Jones">Van Jones</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Colin_Powell" title="Colin Powell">Colin Powell</a> (2010)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Black_Stuntmen%27s_Association" title="Black Stuntmen's Association">Black Stuntmen's Association</a> (2011)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kerry_Washington" title="Kerry Washington">Kerry Washington</a> (2012)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Spike Lee</a> (2014)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Legend" title="John Legend">John Legend</a> (2015)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lonnie_Bunch" title="Lonnie Bunch">Lonnie Bunch</a> (2016)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danny_Glover" title="Danny Glover">Danny Glover</a> (2017)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jay-Z" title="Jay-Z">Jay-Z</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rihanna" title="Rihanna">Rihanna</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/LeBron_James" title="LeBron James">LeBron James</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prince_Harry,_Duke_of_Sussex" title="Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex">Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex</a> & <a href="/wiki/Meghan,_Duchess_of_Sussex" title="Meghan, Duchess of Sussex">Meghan, Duchess of Sussex</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gabrielle_Union" title="Gabrielle Union">Gabrielle Union</a> & <a href="/wiki/Dwyane_Wade" title="Dwyane Wade">Dwyane Wade</a> (2022)</li> 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Prince-Bythewood">Gina Prince-Bythewood</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaka_King" title="Shaka King">Shaka King</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gina_Prince-Bythewood" title="Gina Prince-Bythewood">Gina Prince-Bythewood</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ava_DuVernay" title="Ava DuVernay">Ava DuVernay</a> (2023)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="NAACP_Image_Award_for_Outstanding_Literary_Work_–_Nonfiction86" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks hlist mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link 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<a href="/wiki/Ruby_Dee" title="Ruby Dee">Ruby Dee</a> (1998)</li> <li>No Award (1999)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2000s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>No Award (2000)</li> <li><i>Sally Hemmings, An American Scandal</i> – <a href="/wiki/Tina_Andrews" title="Tina Andrews">Tina Andrews</a> (2001)</li> <li><i>Keeping the Faith: Stories of Love, Courage, Healing, and Hope from Black America</i> – <a href="/wiki/Tavis_Smiley" title="Tavis Smiley">Tavis Smiley</a> (2002)</li> <li><i>Why I Love Black Women</i> – <a href="/wiki/Michael_Eric_Dyson" title="Michael Eric Dyson">Michael Eric Dyson</a> (2003)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hallelujah!_The_Welcome_Table" title="Hallelujah! The Welcome Table">Hallelujah! The Welcome Table</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Maya_Angelou" title="Maya Angelou">Maya Angelou</a> (2004)</li> <li><i>Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?</i> – <a href="/wiki/Michael_Eric_Dyson" title="Michael Eric Dyson">Michael Eric Dyson</a> (2005)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Audacity_of_Hope" title="The Audacity of Hope">The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> (2006)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Not_on_Our_Watch" title="Not on Our Watch">Not on Our Watch</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Don_Cheadle" title="Don Cheadle">Don Cheadle</a> and <a href="/wiki/John_Prendergast_(activist)" title="John Prendergast (activist)">John Prendergast</a> (2007)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Letter_to_My_Daughter" title="Letter to My Daughter">Letter to My Daughter</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Maya_Angelou" title="Maya Angelou">Maya Angelou</a> (2008)</li> <li><i>In Search of Our Roots</i> – <a href="/wiki/Henry_Louis_Gates_Jr." title="Henry Louis Gates Jr.">Henry Louis Gates Jr.</a> (2009)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2010s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Jim_Crow" title="The New Jim Crow">The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Alexander" title="Michelle Alexander">Michelle Alexander</a> (2010)</li> <li><i>The Wealth Cure: Putting Money in Its Place</i> – <a href="/wiki/Hill_Harper" title="Hill Harper">Hill Harper</a> (2011)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Oath:_The_Obama_White_House_and_the_Supreme_Court" class="mw-redirect" title="The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court">The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Jeffrey_Toobin" title="Jeffrey Toobin">Jeffrey Toobin</a> (2012)</li> <li><i>Envisioning Emancipation: Black Americans and the End of Slavery</i> – <a href="/wiki/Deborah_Willis_(author)" title="Deborah Willis (author)">Deborah Willis</a> and Barbara Krauthamer (2013)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Just_Mercy_(book)" title="Just Mercy (book)">Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Bryan_Stevenson" title="Bryan Stevenson">Bryan Stevenson</a> (2014)</li> <li><i>Spectacle: The Astonishing Life of Ota Benga</i> – Pamela Newkirk (2015)</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Hidden_Figures_(book)" title="Hidden Figures (book)">Hidden Figures</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Margot_Lee_Shetterly" title="Margot Lee Shetterly">Margot Lee Shetterly</a> (2016)</li> <li><i>Defining Moments in Black History: Reading Between the Lies</i> – <a href="/wiki/Dick_Gregory" title="Dick Gregory">Dick Gregory</a> (2017)</li> <li><i>For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Politics</i> – <a href="/wiki/Donna_Brazile" title="Donna Brazile">Donna Brazile</a>, Yolanda Caraway, <a href="/wiki/Leah_D._Daughtry" title="Leah D. Daughtry">Leah D. Daughtry</a>, <a href="/wiki/Minyon_Moore" title="Minyon Moore">Minyon Moore</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Veronica_Chambers" title="Veronica Chambers">Veronica Chambers</a> (2018)</li> <li><i>The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations</i> – <a href="/wiki/Toni_Morrison" title="Toni Morrison">Toni Morrison</a> (2019)</li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">2020s</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i><a href="/wiki/A_Promised_Land" title="A Promised Land">A Promised Land</a></i> – <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> (2020)</li> <li><i>The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story</i> – <a href="/wiki/Nikole_Hannah-Jones" title="Nikole Hannah-Jones">Nikole Hannah-Jones</a> (2021)</li> <li><i>Finding Me</i> – <a href="/wiki/Viola_Davis" title="Viola Davis">Viola Davis</a> (2022)</li> <li><i>The New Brownies’ Book: A Love Letter to Black Families</i> – Karida L. 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jean_Renoir" title="Jean Renoir">Jean Renoir</a> (1945)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Wyler" title="William Wyler">William Wyler</a> (1946)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Elia_Kazan" title="Elia Kazan">Elia Kazan</a> (1947)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Roberto_Rossellini" title="Roberto Rossellini">Roberto Rossellini</a> (1948)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Vittorio_De_Sica" title="Vittorio De Sica">Vittorio De Sica</a> (1949)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Huston" title="John Huston">John Huston</a> (1950)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa" title="Akira Kurosawa">Akira Kurosawa</a> (1951)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Lean" title="David Lean">David Lean</a> (1952)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/George_Stevens" title="George Stevens">George Stevens</a> (1953)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Renato_Castellani" title="Renato Castellani">Renato Castellani</a> (1954)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/William_Wyler" title="William Wyler">William Wyler</a> (1955)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Huston" title="John Huston">John Huston</a> (1956)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Lean" title="David Lean">David Lean</a> (1957)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Ford" title="John Ford">John Ford</a> (1958)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fred_Zinnemann" title="Fred Zinnemann">Fred Zinnemann</a> (1959)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Cardiff" title="Jack Cardiff">Jack Cardiff</a> (1960)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jack_Clayton" title="Jack Clayton">Jack Clayton</a> (1961)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Lean" title="David Lean">David Lean</a> (1962)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Richardson" title="Tony Richardson">Tony Richardson</a> (1963)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Desmond_Davis" title="Desmond Davis">Desmond Davis</a> (1964)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Schlesinger" title="John Schlesinger">John Schlesinger</a> (1965)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fred_Zinnemann" title="Fred Zinnemann">Fred Zinnemann</a> (1966)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Brooks" title="Richard Brooks">Richard Brooks</a> (1967)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Franco_Zeffirelli" title="Franco Zeffirelli">Franco Zeffirelli</a> (1968)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alfred_Hitchcock" title="Alfred Hitchcock">Alfred Hitchcock</a> (1969)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Truffaut" title="François Truffaut">François Truffaut</a> (1970)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ken_Russell" title="Ken Russell">Ken Russell</a> (1971)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bob_Fosse" title="Bob Fosse">Bob Fosse</a> (1972)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman" title="Ingmar Bergman">Ingmar Bergman</a> (1973)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Francis_Ford_Coppola" title="Francis Ford Coppola">Francis Ford Coppola</a> (1974)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Altman" title="Robert Altman">Robert Altman</a> / <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick" title="Stanley Kubrick">Stanley Kubrick</a> (1975)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:;width:1%">1976–2000</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alan_J._Pakula" title="Alan J. Pakula">Alan J. Pakula</a> (1976)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Luis_Bu%C3%B1uel" title="Luis Buñuel">Luis Buñuel</a> (1977)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ingmar_Bergman" title="Ingmar Bergman">Ingmar Bergman</a> (1978)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/John_Schlesinger" title="John Schlesinger">John Schlesinger</a> (1979)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Robert_Redford" title="Robert Redford">Robert Redford</a> (1980)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Warren_Beatty" title="Warren Beatty">Warren Beatty</a> (1981)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lumet" title="Sidney Lumet">Sidney Lumet</a> (1982)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_L._Brooks" title="James L. Brooks">James L. Brooks</a> (1983)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Lean" title="David Lean">David Lean</a> (1984)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Akira_Kurosawa" title="Akira Kurosawa">Akira Kurosawa</a> (1985)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Woody_Allen" title="Woody Allen">Woody Allen</a> (1986)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a> (1987)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Alan_Parker" title="Alan Parker">Alan Parker</a> (1988)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Branagh" title="Kenneth Branagh">Kenneth Branagh</a> (1989)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Costner" title="Kevin Costner">Kevin Costner</a> (1990)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Demme" title="Jonathan Demme">Jonathan Demme</a> (1991)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/James_Ivory" title="James Ivory">James Ivory</a> (1992)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> (1993)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino" title="Quentin Tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a> (1994)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ang_Lee" title="Ang Lee">Ang Lee</a> (1995)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Coen_brothers" title="Coen brothers">Joel Coen</a> (1996)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Curtis_Hanson" title="Curtis Hanson">Curtis Hanson</a> (1997)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Shekhar_Kapur" title="Shekhar Kapur">Shekhar Kapur</a> (1998)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Anthony_Minghella" title="Anthony Minghella">Anthony Minghella</a> (1999)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Steven_Soderbergh" title="Steven Soderbergh">Steven Soderbergh</a> (2000)</span></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:;width:1%">2001–present</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Todd_Field" title="Todd Field">Todd Field</a> (2001)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Phillip_Noyce" title="Phillip Noyce">Phillip Noyce</a> (2002)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Edward_Zwick" title="Edward Zwick">Edward Zwick</a> (2003)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Michael_Mann" title="Michael Mann">Michael Mann</a> (2004)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ang_Lee" title="Ang Lee">Ang Lee</a> (2005)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> (2006)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Tim_Burton" title="Tim Burton">Tim Burton</a> (2007)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Fincher" title="David Fincher">David Fincher</a> (2008)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" title="Clint Eastwood">Clint Eastwood</a> (2009)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/David_Fincher" title="David Fincher">David Fincher</a> (2010)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> (2011)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Kathryn_Bigelow" title="Kathryn Bigelow">Kathryn Bigelow</a> (2012)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Spike_Jonze" title="Spike Jonze">Spike Jonze</a> (2013)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Clint_Eastwood" title="Clint Eastwood">Clint Eastwood</a> (2014)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Ridley_Scott" title="Ridley Scott">Ridley Scott</a> (2015)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Barry_Jenkins" title="Barry Jenkins">Barry Jenkins</a> (2016)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Greta_Gerwig" title="Greta Gerwig">Greta Gerwig</a> (2017)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Bradley_Cooper" title="Bradley Cooper">Bradley Cooper</a> (2018)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino" title="Quentin Tarantino">Quentin Tarantino</a> (2019)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Spike Lee</a> (2020)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Paul_Thomas_Anderson" title="Paul Thomas Anderson">Paul Thomas Anderson</a> (2021)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Steven_Spielberg" title="Steven Spielberg">Steven Spielberg</a> (2022)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese">Martin Scorsese</a> (2023)</span></li> <li><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Jon_M._Chu" title="Jon M. 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Weber</a> (2017)</li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Spike Lee</a>, David Rabinowitz, Charlie Wachtel and <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Willmott" title="Kevin Willmott">Kevin Willmott</a> (2018)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steven_Zaillian" title="Steven Zaillian">Steven Zaillian</a> (2019)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Kaufman" title="Charlie Kaufman">Charlie Kaufman</a> (2020)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Campion" title="Jane Campion">Jane Campion</a> (2021)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Lenkiewicz" title="Rebecca Lenkiewicz">Rebecca Lenkiewicz</a> (2022)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christopher_Nolan" title="Christopher Nolan">Christopher Nolan</a> (2023)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Straughan" title="Peter Straughan">Peter Straughan</a> (2024)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" 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