Spike Lee filmography
[Image:Spike Lee.jpg|thumb|250px|Spike Lee in 2007]
Spike Lee is an American filmmaker and actor, known for films that deal with controversial social and political issues. Each of Lee's films typically refers to itself as "A Spike Lee Joint" and the closing credits always end with the phrases "By Any Means Necessary," "Ya Dig," and "Sho Nuff."
Lee received a Master of Fine Arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, which culminated in his thesis film Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, the first student film to be shown in Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films Festival. Lee's first feature film, She's [Gotta Have It], was released three years later in 1986. Lee directed, produced, wrote, and acted in his first three feature films: She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, and Do [the Right Thing], and has since starred or acted in others. He reprised the role of Mars Blackmon from She's Gotta Have It for a series of Nike commercials that also starred Michael Jordan.
Lee has directed music videos by artists such as Prince, Michael Jackson, Anita Baker and Eminem, and for songs featured in films he has directed, including "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy, which was featured heavily in the 1989 film Do the Right Thing.
Filmography
Feature films
Executive producerDrop Squad New Jersey Drive Tales from the Hood Afrocentricity Good Fences Pariah Evolution of a Criminal Manos sucias Cronies The Girl Is in Trouble Tales from the Hood 2 Son of the South Tales from the Hood 3 You Resemble Me The Voice of Hind RajabProducerThe Best Man Love & Basketball 3 A.M. Dream Street Saint John of Las Vegas You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You See You Yesterday
- ''Amazing Grace''