Today marks the 57th birthday of American film director, Spike Lee.
Né Shelton Jackson Lee, the iconic producer was born in Atlanta, Georgia and began making amateur films at the tender age of 20, having garnered a Student Academy Award for his graduate thesis project.
Later, Spike sparked attention with his first feature, She’s Gotta Have It (1986), an avant-garde (and extremely profitable) movie for its time, considering it was about a woman and her three lovers.
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