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Excitement as Cannes Film Festival reopens after pandemic hiatus
Last year's edition was cancelled over the health crisis, and although stars will be allowed to go maskless on the red carpet this year, a health pass is...
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Spike Lee: Channelling America's black rage
Born Shelton Jackson Lee in Georgia on March 20, 1957, 'Spike' was the son of a jazz musician father and an English teacher mom.
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Spike Lee to head Cannes Film Festival jury
This will make the American director the first black person to take on the role.
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Spike Lee makes HBO documentary on New York for 9/11 anniversary
"With over 200 interviews, we dig deep into what makes NYC the greatest city on this God's earth and also the diverse citizens who make it so," said acclaimed film director Spike Lee, who is producing and directing the project.
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Spike Lee vows to 'delay Father Time' as Hollywood bestows honour
The prolific 63-year-old director, who has entertained and provoked audiences with frank depictions of black America for decades, promised he has "got some more joints to make", referring to his films.
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Spike Lee launches pandemic-hit Toronto festival with online premiere
With a pandemic and a closed Canadian border forcing Hollywood stars and media to remain home, North America's biggest film festival has scrambled to find socially-distanced ways to present this year's line-up.
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Spike Lee blasts Trump's handling of COVID-19 pandemic
Film director Spike Lee is horrified by the high death rate in America due to the global health crisis and he believes US President Donald Trump's suggestions such as using bleach, UV light and anti-malarial drugs to treat the virus, will lead to even more deaths.
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Spike Lee 'shocked, proud' to be first black head of Cannes film festival jury
The maker of 'Malcolm X' and 'Do the Right Thing' is the first person of black African descent to preside at the world's biggest film festival.
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Spike Lee to be first black head of Cannes jury - organisers
The maker of Malcolm X and Do the Right Thing is the first person of black African descent to ever preside at the world's biggest film festival, which is held in May on the French Riviera.
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Spike Lee leads tributes to filmmaker John Singleton
The 51-year-old filmmaker had his life support turned off on 29 April following a ‘major stroke’.
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Donald Trump thinks Spike Lee's Oscars speech was racist
Donald Trump's one and only tweet on the glamorous event was to take a swipe at director Spike Lee.
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Spike Lee slams Green Book Oscar win
Spike Lee was seen trying to storm out of Los Angeles' Dolby Theatre when it was revealed the musical comedy-drama had taken the evening's most coveted award.
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Oscars: 'Green Book' wins best picture, Alfonso Cuaron named best director
Alfonso Cuaron on Sunday won the best director Oscar for his deeply personal 'Roma'
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Spike Lee joins The Killers for protest video over Trump's planned wall
Lee filmed the video at the end of 2018 around the border, capturing scenes of migrant families as they headed towards ‘the land of the free’, the Las Vegas band said.
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Spike Lee hopes Trump watches film 'BlacKkKlansman'
'BlacKkKlansman,' based on the true story of an African-American police detective in the 1970s who infiltrated the Ku Klux Klan, arrives in movie theatres on Friday.
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[WATCH] Spike Lee repeatedly calls Donald Trump a 'motherf****r'
Director Spike Lee called out US President Donald Trump after he premiered his film 'BlacKkKlansman' at the Cannes Film Festival. CNN reports.
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Spike Lee slams the Academy Awards
Spike Lee has hit out at the Academy Awards, saying that the increased recognition for black actors at this year's bash doesn't resolve the broader issues.
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Spike Lee says ruckus over diversity changed Oscars
He was speaking at the Berlin International Film Festival where his film is being shown out of competition.
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Will Smith to boycott Oscars in diversity protest
The star will not attend the ceremony in protest over the absence of nominated actors of colour.
