Happy Birthday, Spike Lee!

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It was on this day in 1957 that Spike Lee was born in Atlanta, Georgia. His films, among them She's Gotta Have It, Do the Right Thing and Jungle Fever, explore the social, political, and interpersonal reationships between African-Americans and whites not seen since the work of director Oscar Micheaux. His production company, 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks has produced over 35 films since 1983. Spike Lee's film Do the Right Thing was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1989. His documentary 4 Little Girls was nominated for the Best Feature Documentary Academy Award in 1997.

Last year, Spike Lee directed for HBO Films, When the Levees Broke, subtitled A Requiem in Four Acts, a documentary film about the devastation of New Orleans, Louisiana due to the failure of the levees and the government's slow response during Hurricane Katrina. The documentary was also screened at the 63rd Venice International Film Festival on August 31 and September 1, 2006. It won the Orizzonti Doc Prize and one of two FIPRESCI awards. In addition it was shown at the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival on September 15 and September 16, 2006.

Spike Lee has also directed many movies and stories for Television and Music Videos and has also done TV Commercials.

Spike Lee's Feature Films Include:
Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983) (thesis film at NYU's Tisch School)
She's Gotta Have It (1986) (also acted)
School Daze (1988) (also acted)
Do the Right Thing (1989) (also acted)
Mo' Better Blues (1990) (also acted)
Jungle Fever (1991) (also acted)
Malcolm X (1992) (also acted)
Crooklyn (1994) (also acted)
Clockers (1995) (also acted)
Girl 6 (1996) (also acted)
Get on the Bus (1996)
4 Little Girls (1997)
He Got Game (1998)
Summer of Sam (1999) (also acted)
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000)
Bamboozled (2000)
25th Hour (2002)
Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002) (segment "We Wuz Robbed")
She Hate Me (2004)
All the Invisible Children (2006) (segment ("Jesus Children of America")
Inside Man (2006)
L.A. Riots (2007)
Inside Man 2 (2008)
Untitled James Brown Biopic (2008)