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.
“Use your insight to portray the issues that are currently boiling underneath the surface of society that can explode later on,” Bong tells his fellow directors.
Pollock stood by such controversial releases as Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” and Martin Scorsese’s “The Last Temptation of Christ.”
“How can people not understand why people are acting the way they are?” Lee asked while debuting his new short film.
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Twenty-eight years after being overlooked for Best Director and Best Picture, Spike Lee has finally landed major nominations from the Academy.
From “She’s Gotta Have It” to “BlacKkKlansman,” Spike Lee has been making timely and politically-charged films for over 30 years.
The Academy honored Lee with an Honorary Oscar in 2015, but the filmmaker has never earned a competitive trophy in his more than three decades making movies.