Movie:chi Raq
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Director's Reel: Spike Lee on the Prescience of 'Do the Right Thing,' the 'Mockery' of Denzel's 'Malcolm X' Oscar Loss, and More
Spike Lee’s public persona — as an activist, as a provocateur, as a mouthpiece against injustice, and as New York’s No. 1 Knicks fan — sometimes threatens to overshadow his tremendous accomplishments as a filmmaker. Remarkably, Lee — who was awarded an honorary Oscar in November for his considerable career achievements — has never been nominated for a Best Director Academy Award, nor has ever had a Best Picture contender (he was nominated for Best Screenplay for Do the Right Thing, and for Best
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Spike Lee Is Boycotting the Oscars Over Extreme Lack of Diversity
Spike Lee is refusing to attend this year’s Oscars due to the fact that for the second year in a row, all of the acting nominees are white. The filmmaker, who was awarded an honorary Oscar at the Governors Awards in November, said that while he appreciated that recognition, he and his wife “cannot support” this year’s Academy Awards. “Mean No Disrespect To My Friends, Host Chris Rock and Producer Reggie Hudlin, President Isaacs And The Academy,” Lee wrote in an Instagram post on Monday morning
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Box Office: 'Krampus' Beats 'Good Dinosaur' With $16M; 'Hunger Games' Stays No. 1
‘Krampus’ (Universal Pictures/Legendary Pictures)
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'Chi-Raq' Director Spike Lee Takes on Chicago's Plague of Violence and the Laquan McDonald 'Snuff Film'
Spike Lee (Associated Press)
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Review: Spike Lee's 'Chi-Raq' Is Patchy but Provocative
Provocatively using Aristophanes’ ever-timely 2,426-year-old play Lysistrata as a way to address the ongoing plague of shootings on the South Side of Chicago, Spike Lee serves up an odd and teeming gumbo of political activism, broad melodrama, verse dialogue, rap music, history lessons, comedic caricature, moral guidance and steamy sex (later withheld) in Chi-Raq. This is the first feature film out of the gate for the nascent Amazon Studios, which seems at least initially dedicated to working w
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Stars at the Governors Awards List Feel-Good Films in Wake of Paris Attacks
Actors at the Governors Awards share their favorite feel-good films with Yahoo Movies as a respite after the Paris attacks.
