Spike Lee will be awarded the Directors Guild Lifetime Achievement Award

Spike Lee will receive the Directors Guild of America’s highest honor, theLifetime Achievement Award
The guild announced Wednesday the award for Distinguished Achievements in Motion Picture Direction. The Award will be presented during the 74th Annual DGA Awards, Saturday, March 12, 2022.

Lee, 64, is the director for more than 30 TV and film projects. His films include “The Greatest Showman,” a 1989 movie about the life of a man who challenges conventional notions of race, gender, war, masculinity and culture. His best known titles include 1989’s “Do the Right Thing,” 1992’s “Malcolm X,” 1996’s documentary “Four Little Girls,” 2002’s “25th Hour,” 2006’s “Inside Man,” and 2018’s “BlacKkKlansman,”For which he was awarded the screenplay Oscar. His directorial debut was in 1986 with the comedy “She’s Gotta Have It,”His most recent film. “Da 5 Bloods,”In 2020, it was published.

“Icon. Trailblazer. Visionary. Spike Lee has changed the face of cinema, and there is no single word that encapsulates his significance to the craft of directing,”Lesli Linka Glatter was president of DGA.

Spike Lee DGA Awards

“From his groundbreaking ‘Do the Right Thing,’ ‘BlacKkKlansman,’ and everything in-between – to his signature ‘double dolly’ shot, Spike is an innovator on so many levels. His bold and passionate storytelling over the past three decades has masterfully entertained, as it held a stark mirror to our society and culture. And while he is no stranger to huge commercial success, he is also the beating heart of independent film. Even as countless filmmakers call Spike their mentor and inspiration, he continues to devote his time to teaching future generations how to make their mark. We are thrilled to present Spike with the DGA’s highest honor,” Glatter’s statement concluded.

Lee’s honor is prestigious and historic. The honor is not given annually and in the guild’s 86-year history only 35 directors have ever received the honor. This award was previously known as the Black Director Award, but it has never been awarded to Black directors. “the D.W. Griffith Award.” (Silent film director Griffith’s racist views, often noted by Lee, spurred the name change, which was approved unanimously in 1999 by the guild’s national board.)

Lee will join the ranks of filmmakers like Frank Capra (1959), Alfred Hitchcock (1968), Orson Welles (1984), Billy Wilder (1985), Steven Spielberg (2000), Martin Scorsese (2003), Clint Eastwood (2005) and Miloš Forman (2013), to receive the DGA’s award for lifetime achievement. Ridley Scott was the most recent recipient in 2017.

Spike Lee DGA Awards

He also won an Oscar for his work. “BlacKkKlansman,”Lee, who is based in New York, was given an Honorary Oscar for 2015, and was last year honored at the 46th Chaplin Award Gala. He also has two nominations for the DGA in his career. “BlacKkKlansman”and for his direction of the TV-version of “David Byrne’s American Utopia.”

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