Spike Lee - Famous Film Producer

Spike Lee Net Worth

$60,000,000

Spike Lee, a famous American movie director, writer, producer, actor, and college professor, has a net worth of $60 million. He has achieved great success in his career, producing over 35 films through his production company, 40 Acres and a Mule, and receiving critical acclaim for his work.

Key facts:

  • Spike Lee is an American movie director, writer, producer, actor, and college professor.
  • He has produced more than 35 films since 1983 through his production company, 40 Acres and a Mule.
  • He made his directorial debut with 'She's Gotta Have It' in 1986.
  • He has been nominated for two Academy Awards - Best Original Screenplay for 'Do the Right Thing' and Best Documentary (Feature) for '4 Little Girls'.
  • His films often examine race relations, colorism in the black community, the role of media, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues.

Basic Information About Spike Lee

CategoryCelebrities β€Ί Directors
ProfessionsScreenwriter, Actor, Film director, Film Producer, Television Director, Television producer, Film Editor, Teacher
Net worth$60,000,000
Date of birth1957-03-20 (67 years old)
Place of birthAtlanta
NationalityUnited States of America
Curiosities and TrademarksFrequently casts himself
Frequently casts John Turturro, Samuel L. Jackson, Delroy Lindo, Kim Director and Roger Guenveur Smith
His films frequently involve African Americans and African-American themes
Films called "A Spike Lee Joint"
Frequently has characters directly address the camera. Frequently places actors on dollies to achieve a gliding or rotating effect against the background of the shot.
His films often have the phrase "Wake Up!" as in an urging to the awakening of maturity and social conscience.
Baseball: Every one of his narrative feature films makes reference to baseball teams and players.
Often casts Denzel Washington and Michael Imperioli.
Frequently uses a technique he calls the "double dolly." This is where the camera and the subject are placed on a dolly and pushed through the scene. This makes the subject look like they are floating or gliding.
Often wears New York Knicks apparel head to toe, including while directing
SpouseTonya Lewis Lee - (2 OctoberΒ 1993 - present)Β (2 children)
GenderMale
Height5 ft 6 in (1.68 m)
Social Mediaβ†—οΈŽ Wikipedia β†—οΈŽ IMDb

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What Movie Awards did Spike Lee win?


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Spike Lee awards

Award Name State Movie / Series Name Year
Black Reel - Outstanding Motion PictureNomineeDa 5 Bloods2021
Jury Award - Best DirectorNomineeDa 5 Bloods2021
HFCS Award - Best DirectorWinnerDa 5 Bloods2021
INOCA - Best DirectorNomineeDa 5 Bloods2021
MCFCA Award - Best DirectorNomineeDa 5 Bloods2021
Black Movie Award - Best DirectorWinnerInside Man2006
Black Reel - Best DirectorWinnerInside Man2007
Image Award - Outstanding Directing in a Feature Film/Television Movie - Comedy or DramaWinnerInside Man2007
IOMA - Best Director (Miglior regia)NomineeInside Man2007
Oscar - Best Adapted ScreenplayWinnerBlacKkKlansman2019
BAFTA Film Award - Best Screenplay (Adapted)WinnerBlacKkKlansman2019
Movies for Grownups Award - Best DirectorWinnerBlacKkKlansman2019
AAFCA Award - Best ScreenplayWinnerBlacKkKlansman2018
Silver Condor - Best Foreign Film, Not in the Spanish Language (Mejor PelΓ­cula Extranjera)NomineeBlacKkKlansman2019
AFCA Award - Best Adapted ScreenplayNomineeBlacKkKlansman2019
ACCA - Best DirectorNomineeBlacKkKlansman2019
Grand Prize of the Jury - Grand Prize of the JuryWinnerBlacKkKlansman2018
Capri Adapted Screenplay Award - WinnerBlacKkKlansman2018
CFCA Award - Best Adapted ScreenplayNomineeBlacKkKlansman2018
CIFCC Award - Best DirectorWinnerBlacKkKlansman2019
Cinema Brazil Grand Prize - Best Foreign-Language Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro)WinnerBlacKkKlansman2019
CinEuphoria - Top Ten of the Year - International CompetitionWinnerBlacKkKlansman2019
COFCA Award - Best Adapted ScreenplayWinnerBlacKkKlansman2019
DFCS Award - Best Adapted ScreenplayWinnerBlacKkKlansman2019
DGA Award - Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature FilmNomineeBlacKkKlansman2019
Dorian Award - Director of the YearNomineeBlacKkKlansman2019
GAFCA Award - Best Adapted ScreenplayWinnerBlacKkKlansman2019
Gold Derby Award - Adapted Screenplay of the DecadeNomineeBlacKkKlansman2020
Gold Derby Award - Adapted ScreenplayWinnerBlacKkKlansman2019
Guldbagge - Best Foreign Film (BΓ€sta utlΓ€ndska film)NomineeBlacKkKlansman2019
HFCS Award - Best DirectorNomineeBlacKkKlansman2019
INOCA - Best Adapted ScreenplayNomineeBlacKkKlansman2019
The Lia Van Leer Award - NomineeBlacKkKlansman2018
KCFCC Award - Best Adapted ScreenplayWinnerBlacKkKlansman2018
LEJA Award - Best PictureNomineeBlacKkKlansman2019
Audience Award - WinnerBlacKkKlansman2018
LAOFCS Award - Best Male DirectorWinnerBlacKkKlansman2018
NFCS Award - Best DirectorWinnerBlacKkKlansman2018
OFCC Award - Best Adapted ScreenplayWinnerBlacKkKlansman2018
OAFFC Award - Best DirectorNomineeBlacKkKlansman2018
Career Achievement Award - WinnerBlacKkKlansman2019
PGA Award - Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion PicturesNomineeBlacKkKlansman2019
Premio Guarani - Best Foreign FilmNomineeBlacKkKlansman2019
SFFCC Award - Best DirectorWinnerBlacKkKlansman2018
Audience Award - City of Donostia Audience AwardNomineeBlacKkKlansman2018
SEFCA Award - Best Adapted ScreenplayWinnerBlacKkKlansman2018
SLFCA Award - Best DirectorWinnerBlacKkKlansman2018
Sydney Film Prize - Best FilmNomineeBlacKkKlansman2018
WAFCA Award - Best Adapted ScreenplayNomineeBlacKkKlansman2018
WGA Award (Screen) - Adapted ScreenplayNomineeBlacKkKlansman2019

Spike Lee roles

Movie / Series Role
OldboyDirector
Da 5 BloodsDirector
Da 5 BloodsWriter
BlacKkKlansmanDirector
BlacKkKlansmanWriter
Inside ManDirector
Do the Right ThingDirector
Do the Right ThingWriter
Do the Right ThingMookie
Malcolm XDirector
Malcolm XWriter
Malcolm XShorty
Summer of SamDirector
Summer of SamWriter
Summer of SamWriter
Summer of SamJohn Jeffries
25th HourDirector
He Got GameDirector
He Got GameWriter
School DazeDirector
School DazeWriter
School DazeGammite Half-Pint
BamboozledDirector
BamboozledWriter
Chi-RaqDirector
Chi-RaqWriter
American UtopiaDirector
She Hate MeDirector
She Hate MeWriter
Mo' Better BluesDirector
Mo' Better BluesWriter
Mo' Better BluesGiant
Jungle FeverDirector
Jungle FeverWriter
Jungle FeverCyrus
CrooklynDirector
CrooklynWriter
CrooklynSnuffy
She's Gotta Have ItDirector
She's Gotta Have ItWriter
She's Gotta Have ItMars Blackmon
ClockersDirector
ClockersWriter
ClockersChucky
GhostwriterSpecial Agent Pete 2 episodes, 1992-1993
She's Gotta Have ItDirector
She's Gotta Have ItWriter
She's Gotta Have ItWriter
She's Gotta Have ItWriter
She's Gotta Have ItDrum Major / ... 2 episodes, 2017-2019

Spike Lee's Movie/Shows Salary

Movie / Series Salary
Malcolm XΒ (1992)$3,000,000

Spike Lee's Quotes

  • I've been blessed with the opportunity to express the views of black people who otherwise don't have access to power and the media. I have to take advantage of that while I'm still bankable.
  • What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.
  • Making films has got to be one of the hardest endeavors known to humankind. Straight up and down, film work is hard shit.
  • [after Do the Right Thing (1989) lost out on the Palme d'Or to Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival] Wim Wenders had better watch out 'cause I'm waiting for his ass. Somewhere deep in my closet I have a Louisville Slugger bat with Wenders' name on it.
  • "I respect the audience's intelligence a lot, and that's why I don't try to go for the lowest common denominator." -- at the New York premiere of his media satire "Bamboozled".

Spike Lee's photos

Interesting Facts about Spike Lee

  1. Cousin of Malcolm D. Lee.
  2. Big New York Knicks fan: Has courtside seats for all games. Partially responsible for the "off colored" baseball caps, as he started wearing a red Yankees cap during the 1996 World Series.
  3. His production company is 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks.
  4. Son of Bill Lee.
  5. Brother of Joie Lee, CinquΓ© Lee and David Lee.
  6. After the Columbine high school shootings Spike said that National Rifle Association president Charlton Heston should be shot. Heston replied that if Spike wanted to take a shot at him he should go ahead and try it. Lee later apologized for the comments.
  7. Serves as a master teacher of film at the Tisch School of the Arts and Harvard University.
  8. Graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in 1982.
  9. Graduated from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1979.
  10. He has two children with his wife, Tonya: daughter, Satchel Lee (born in December 1994); and son, Jackson Lee (born in 1997).
  11. His grandmother, Zimmie Shelton, an alumna of Spelman College (class of 1929), sent him to Morehouse College, the historically black all-male institution affiliated with the all-female Spelman College.
  12. His grandmother, Zimmie Shelton, helped fund his first full-length feature film, She's Gotta Have It (1986).
  13. He and producer/director Monty Ross are frequent collaborators and were classmates and graduates of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
  14. Between the making of his award-winning student short, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), and his debut feature, She's Gotta Have It (1986), Lee attempted to make a featured called "Messenger". Over $100,000 was raised, but the film never materialized.
  15. The name of his production company, "40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks", came from an unfulfilled promise that many politicians made to freed slaves after the Civil War.
  16. Was a Visiting Lecturer in Afro-American Studies and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University in the early 1990s.
  17. Is now (2002) the Artistic Director of the graduate division of the Kanbar Institute of Film and Television at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. The position gives Lee an advisory position, allowing him to teach and advise third year students, as well as aid with industry networking.
  18. Vied for the director's seat on Ali (2001). Says that he knew he wouldn't get the job after speaking to the movie's star, Will Smith (one of the many financiers on Lee's Get on the Bus (1996)), who wanted Lee to make a film with "a broader appeal".
  19. Has been trying for more than ten years to direct his dream project: a film about the life and times of Jackie Robinson. Says that he personally promised to Robinson's widow, Rachel Isum, to make the film. Another as-of-yet (2003) project he has often spoke of but has yet to do is a film on the boxing match between Joe Louis and Max Schmeling.
  20. Was voted the 48th Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

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