Spike Lee3

Filmmaker, writer, producer and actor Spike Lee was born in Atlanta and raised in Brooklyn. He founded 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks and made his feature debut with She’s Gotta Have It (1986), followed by Do the Right Thing (1989), Malcolm X (1992), 4 Little Girls (1997), Inside Man (2006), BlacKkKlansman (2018) and Da 5 Bloods (2020). BlacKkKlansman earned him the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, while he received an Honorary Oscar in 2015 and the National Medal of Arts in 2023.