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"Blackface and minstrelsy serve as the theme of Spike Lee's film Bamboozled (2000). It tells of a disgruntled black television executive who reintroduces the old blackface style in a series concept in an attempt to get himself fired, and is instead horrified by its success."--Sholem Stein

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Shelton Jackson Lee (born March 20, 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia), better known as Spike Lee, is an American filmmaker noted for his films dealing with controversial social and political issues.

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Filmography

Year	Film	Credited as
Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Actor	Role
1983	Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
1986	She's Gotta Have It	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Mars Blackmon
1988	School Daze	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Half-Pint
1989	Do the Right Thing	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Mookie
1990	Mo' Better Blues	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Giant
1991	Jungle Fever	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Cyrus
1991	Lonely in America				Template:Yes	Himself
1992	Malcolm X	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Shorty
1994	Crooklyn	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Snuffy
1994	D.R.O.P. Squad			Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Himself
	Ghostwriter: Into the Comics				Template:Yes	Himself
1995	Clockers	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Chucky
	Lumière and Company	Template:Yes			Template:Yes	Himself
	New Jersey Drive			Template:Yes (Executive producer)
	Tales from the Hood			Template:Yes
1996	Get on the Bus	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
1996	Girl 6	Template:Yes		Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Jimmy
1997	4 Little Girls	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
1998	He Got Game	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Freak	Template:Yes
	Pavarotti and Friends for the Children of Liberia	Template:Yes
1999	Summer of Sam	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	John Jeffries
	Pavarotti and Friends for the Guatemala and Kosovo	Template:Yes
	The Best Man			Template:Yes
2000	The Original Kings of Comedy	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
	Bamboozled	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
	Afrocentricity			Template:Yes (Executive producer)
	Lisa Picard is Famous				Template:Yes	Himself
	Love & Basketball			Template:Yes
2001	A Huey P. Newton Story	Template:Yes
	The Concert for New York City	Template:Yes
	3 A.M.			Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Filmmaker
2002	25th Hour	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
	Jim Brown: All-American	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
	Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet segment: "We Wuz Robbed"	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
2003	Good Fences			Template:Yes (Executive producer)
2004	She Hate Me	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes
2004	Sucker Free City	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
2005	Dream Street			Template:Yes
	Miracle's Boys episodes: "New Charlie" and "Bond of Brothers"	Template:Yes
	All the Invisible Children segment: "Jesus Children of America"	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
2006	Inside Man	Template:Yes
	When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
	Shark (pilot)	Template:Yes
2008	Miracle at St. Anna	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
2008	Passing Strange	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
2009	Kobe Doin' Work	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
2010	If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
2011	You're Nobody Till Somebody Kills You			Template:Yes
2011	Pariah			Template:Yes (Executive producer)
2012	Red Hook Summer	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Mookie
2012	Bad 25	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
2013	Oldboy	Template:Yes		Template:Yes

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Appearances in documentaries

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

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

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+"[[Blackface]] and [[minstrelsy]] serve as the theme of [[Spike Lee]]'s film ''[[Bamboozled]]'' (2000). It tells of a disgruntled black television executive who reintroduces the old blackface style in a [[series concept]] in an attempt to get himself fired, and is instead horrified by its success."--Sholem Stein
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-'''  Shelton Jackson Lee''' (born [[March 20]], [[1957]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]]), better known as '''Spike Lee''', is an [[United States|American]] [[film director]], [[Film producer|producer]], [[screenwriter|writer]], and [[actor]] noted for his films dealing with controversial [[Society|social]] and [[Politics|political]] issues.{{GFDL}}
+'''  Shelton Jackson Lee''' (born [[March 20]], [[1957]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]]), better known as '''Spike Lee''', is an [[Cinema of the United States|American filmmaker]] noted for his films dealing with controversial [[Political cinema|social and political]] issues.
+==Filmography==
+{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap"
+! rowspan="2" width="33"|Year
+! rowspan="2" width="200"|Film
+! colspan="5"|Credited as
+|-
+! width=5 | [[Film director|Director]]
+! width=5 |[[Screenwriter|Writer]]
+! width=5 |[[Film producer|Producer]]
+! width=5 |[[Actor]]
+! Role
+|-align="center"
+| 1983
+| align="left"| ''[[Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| 1986
+| align="left"| ''[[She's Gotta Have It]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| [[Mars Blackmon]]
+|-align="center"
+| 1988
+| align="left"| ''[[School Daze]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Half-Pint
+|-align="center"
+| 1989
+| align="left"| ''[[Do the Right Thing]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align=left| Mookie
+|-align="center"
+| 1990
+| align="left"| ''[[Mo' Better Blues]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Giant
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="2"| 1991
+| align="left"| ''[[Jungle Fever]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Cyrus
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''Lonely in America''
+|
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Himself
+|-align="center"
+| 1992
+| align="left"|''[[Malcolm X (film)|Malcolm X]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Shorty
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="2"| 1994
+| align="left"| ''[[Crooklyn]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Snuffy
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''D.R.O.P. Squad''
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Himself
+|-align="center"
+|
+| align="left"| ''[[Ghostwriter (TV series)#Video releases|Ghostwriter: Into the Comics]]''
+|
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Himself
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="4"| 1995
+| align="left"| ''[[Clockers (film)|Clockers]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Chucky
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Lumière and Company]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Himself
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[New Jersey Drive]]''
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}<br /><small>(Executive<br />producer)</small>
+|
+| align="left"|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Tales from the Hood]]''
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| align="left"|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="2"|1996
+| align="left"| ''[[Get on the Bus]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Girl 6 (film)|Girl 6]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Jimmy
+|-align="center"
+| 1997
+| align="left"| ''[[4 Little Girls]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="3"|1998
+| align="left"| ''[[He Got Game]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Freak (film)|Freak]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''Pavarotti and Friends for the Children of Liberia''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="3"|1999
+| align="left"| ''[[Summer of Sam]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| John Jeffries
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''Pavarotti and Friends for the Guatemala and Kosovo''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[The Best Man (1999 film)|The Best Man]]''
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="5"|2000
+| align="left"| ''[[The Original Kings of Comedy]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Bamboozled]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''Afrocentricity''
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}<br /><small>(Executive<br />producer)</small>
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Lisa Picard is Famous]]''
+|
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Himself
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Love & Basketball]]''
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="3"| 2001
+| align="left"| ''[[A Huey P. Newton Story]]''
+|{{yes}}
+|
+|
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[The Concert for New York City]]''
+|{{yes}}
+|
+|
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[3 A.M. (film)|3 A.M.]]''
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Filmmaker
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="3"|2002
+| align="left"| ''[[25th Hour]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Jim Brown: All-American]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Ten Minutes Older|Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet]]''<br />segment: "We Wuz Robbed"
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| 2003
+| align="left"| ''[[Good Fences]]''
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}<br /><small>(Executive<br />producer)</small>
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="2"|2004
+| align="left"| ''[[She Hate Me]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Sucker Free City]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="3"| 2005
+| align="left"| ''Dream Street''
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Miracle's Boys]]''<br />episodes: "New Charlie" and "Bond of Brothers"
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[All the Invisible Children]]''<br />segment: "Jesus Children of America"
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="3"|2006
+| align="left"| ''[[Inside Man]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[When the Levees Broke|When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Shark (TV series)|Shark]]'' ([[television pilot|pilot]])
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="2"| 2008
+| align="left"| ''[[Miracle at St. Anna]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| align="left"| ''[[Passing Strange]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="1"| 2009
+|align="left"| ''[[Kobe Doin' Work]]''
+|{{yes}}
+|
+|{{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="1"| 2010
+|align="left"| ''[[If God Is Willing and Da Creek Don't Rise]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="1"| 2011
+|align="left"| ''[[You're Nobody Till Somebody Kills You]]''
+|
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="1"| 2011
+|align="left"| ''[[Pariah (2011 film)|Pariah]]''
+|
+|
+| {{yes}} <br /><small>(Executive<br />producer)</small>
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="1"| 2012
+|align="left"| ''[[Red Hook Summer]]''
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| {{yes}}
+| align="left"| Mookie
+|-align="center"
+| rowspan="1"| 2012
+|align="left"| ''[[Bad 25 (film)|Bad 25]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|-align="center"
+|rowspan="1"| 2013
+|align="left"| ''[[Oldboy (2013 film)|Oldboy]]''
+| {{yes}}
+|
+| {{yes}}
+|
+|
+|}
+===Appearances in documentaries===
+Spike Lee has been interviewed or appeared as a guest in numerous documentaries.
+{| class="wikitable" style="white-space:nowrap"
+! width="33"|Year
+! width="270"|Film
+|-
+| align="center" rowspan="2"| 1990
+| ''Mandela in America''
+|-
+| ''Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella''
+|-
+| rowspan="2" align="center"| 1993
+| ''Seven Songs for Malcolm X''
+|-
+| ''The Last Party''
+|-
+| align="center"| 1994
+| ''[[Hoop Dreams]]''
+|-
+| align="center" rowspan="2"| 1995
+| ''The Cronkite Reports: The Faltering Dream''
+|-
+| ''First Works: A Revealing Look at Today's Greatest Directors, Vol. 1''
+|-
+| align="center" rowspan="2"| 1996
+| ''The Fine Art of Separating People from Their Money''
+|-
+| ''[[When We Were Kings]]''
+|-
+| align="center"| 1997
+| ''The Directors: Spike Lee''
+|-
+| align="center"| 2005
+| ''How to Eat Your Watermelon in White Company (and Enjoy It)''
+|-
+| align="center"| 2006
+| ''Edge of Outside''
+|-
+| align="center"| 2007
+| ''Lights! Action! Music!''
+|-
+| align="center"| 2008
+| ''40 x 15''
+|-
+|align="center"| 2010
+| ''Spike and Jim''
+|-
+|align="center"| 2010
+| ''Winning Time: [[Reggie Miller]] vs. The [[New York Knicks]]'', an episode of ''[[30 for 30]]''
+|-
+|align="center"| 2010
+| ''The Top 100: NFL's Greatest Players''
+|}
+[[Category:Canon]]
+{{GFDL}}