Spike Lee’s Long Journey to Becoming Cannes’ Unabashed and Adored Jury President
At the Cannes Film Festival’s opening press conference, the filmmaker and Croisette icon was both politic and unfiltered.
At the Cannes Film Festival’s opening press conference, the filmmaker and Croisette icon was both politic and unfiltered.
“I thought I was the one who would be the odd man out actually,” said Blanchard, who’s worked with Spike Lee for more than three decades.
Best Original Score is the only Oscar nomination for “Da 5 Bloods” at the 93rd Academy Awards.
“I made this film specifically for the Bloods — the Black soldiers who fought an immoral war,” Lee told The New York Times.
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While Lee says there are “a lot of loopholes” in the new rules, he does believe the Academy’s heart is in the right place.
“Before Ma Rainey,” take a look back at his best roles, from “Black Panther” to “Get on Up” and this year’s “Da 5 Bloods.”
Shooting on 16mm is part of the reason Newton Thomas Sigel is an Oscar contender for his work on “Da 5 Bloods.”
Only the Kevin James thriller is available in theaters; Spike Lee’s drama is a Netflix Original, and Judd Apatow’s comedy is strictly PVOD.
The ambitious film, a breakthrough in the depiction of black Vietnam vets as its central characters, continues Lee’s urgent career-long message.
The jazz musician and composer has been a collaborator of Lee’s dating back to “Do the Right Thing.”