Spike Lee speaks at CCSN

Friday, April 24, 1998 | 10:47 a.m.

Lee, the son of an accomplished jazz musician and a schoolteacher, was born in Atlanta but grew up in Brooklyn. He received his master's of fine arts in film production for New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. There, his student film "Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads" was showcased at Lincoln Center and won the Student Award for the Academy of Motion Pictures.

In 1989, Lee's "Do the Right Thing," which explored urban racial tensions, won him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay, the Best Director Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and a broad audience for his technically original, politically inspired and often controversial work. Most recently, he received an Academy Award nomination for the documentary "4 Little Girls," which is a nonfiction film about four black girls killed in the 1963 bombing of a church in Birmingham, Ala. He is currently working on "He Got Game" with Denzel Washington.

In addition to film, Lee has produced and directed music videos and is well known for his television commercials, which include his famous Nike Air Jordan ads.

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