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Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American filmmaker and actor. His work has continually explored race relations, issues within the black community, the role of media in contemporary life, urban crime and poverty, and other political issues. Lee received numerous accolades for his work, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and two Peabody Awards as well as nominations for three Golden Globe Awards and a Grammy Award. Lee studied filmmaking at both Morehouse College and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts, where he directed his student film Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), which won a Student Academy Award. He later founded the production company 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, where he has produced more than 35 films. He made his directorial debut with the comedy She's Gotta Have It (1986). He received widespread critical acclaim for the drama Do the Right Thing (1989), for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He directed the historical epic Malcolm X (1992), earning the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. With the biographical crime dramedy BlacKkKlansman (2018), he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix Award. He has also written and directed films such as School Daze (1988), Mo' Better Blues (1990), Jungle Fever (1991), Crooklyn (1994), Clockers (1995), Bamboozled (2000), 25th Hour (2002), Inside Man (2006), Chi-Raq (2015), Da 5 Bloods (2020), and Highest 2 Lowest (2025). Lee has also acted in eleven of his feature films. He is also known for directing numerous documentary projects, including 4 Little Girls (1997), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film. He directed the HBO series When the Levees Broke (2006), which won two Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program and Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. He also directed the HBO documentary If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010) and the David Byrne concert film American Utopia (2020). Lee has received several honours, including the Honorary BAFTA Award in 2002, an Honorary César in 2003, the Academy Honorary Award in 2015, and the National Medal of Arts in 2023. Five of his films have been selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". He has received a Gala Tribute from the Film Society of Lincoln Center as well as the Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize. His films have featured breakthrough performances from actors such as Denzel Washington, Laurence Fishburne, Samuel L. Jackson, Giancarlo Esposito, Rosie Perez, Delroy Lindo, John Turturro, and John David Washington. Description above from the Wikipedia article Spike Lee, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Spike Lee
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As New York struggles to recover from the profound devastation and trauma left by recent multiversal wars, its underworld is dragged into calculated chaos through the secret manipulations of Wilson Fisk, who has retreated to a tropical island. Exploiting a security breach funded by Fisk, Cletus Kasady escapes from Ravencroft Asylum, bonding with the Carnage symbiote to turn the city into his own bloody room of pleasure. Alongside Frances Barrison (Shriek), whom he met in captivity, Cletus embarks on a relentless killing spree where violence transforms into a sick, twisted romance. Crushing the reign of ruthless street boss Lee Price, this savage spectacle is, in reality, a grotesque feast offered to Rio Vidal (Lady Death) and Agatha Agnes, who watch the unfolding carnage from the shadows like a theatrical performance. The burden of ending this unstoppable brutality falls upon the exhausted Detective Patrick Mulligan, a man on the brink of moral collapse whose body and mind have been forcibly overtaken by the Toxin symbiote. Peter Parker and Eddie Brock—now darkened, intolerant figures crushed under the heavy weight of their pasts—guide Mulligan in this desperate war while fiercely trying to keep Eddie's son, Dylan, safe. During the ultimate, bloody showdown engulfing Times Square, Frank Castle (The Punisher) intervenes in the chaos. He cold-bloodedly executes Frances with a single bullet, instantly triggering Cletus's psychological collapse. When the Carnage rampage finally ends, what remains is a shattered, leaderless, and weary New York; a perfectly cleansed kingdom for the Kingpin, who is now ready to reclaim his throne.
