Spike Lee will head up this year's competition jury for the Cannes International Film Festival, organizers announced on Tuesday. He had been tapped to head up the jury for the 2020 festival, which ended up getting canceled due to the pandemic.
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After nearly 30 years collaborating with Spike Lee to compose the music on his films, Terence Blanchard’s soaring compositions are finally getting noticed. He got his first Oscar nomination for BlacKkKlansman, a Best Picture nominee which brought Lee his first Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
Spike Lee will head up this year's competition jury for the Cannes International Film Festival, organizers announced on Tuesday. He had been tapped to head up the jury for the 2020 festival, which ended up getting canceled due to the pandemic.
The Cannes Film Festival said Tuesday that Spike Lee will be its jury president in 2021, one year after he was due to preside over the festival but couldn’t due to its cancellation.
It is truly beginning to feel like we’re in a time loop. It was only a year ago when the Cannes Film Festival announced that Spike Lee would be the Jury President for the film festival.
Spike Lee has been named jury president for this year’s Cannes Film Festival, returning to the fest after previously being named jury president for last year’s canceled edition due to the coronavirus.This year’s festival will take place later than usual but is scheduled for July 6-17.“Throughout the months of uncertainty we’ve just been through, Spike Lee has never stopped encouraging us.
By Lisa RichwineLOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Directors Spike Lee and Regina King were left off the list of this year's Academy Awards contenders, though voters made history by nominating two women in the directing category for the first time. Lee's Vietnam War film "Da 5 Bloods," which is vying for the top movie honor at the upcoming Screen Actors Guild awards, was nearly absent from this year's Oscar nominees.
Film director and New York Knicks superfan Spike Lee has blasted Madison Square Garden security for hassling Patrick Ewing, the Georgetown basketball coach who was involved in an incident earlier this week.
When the American Film Institute released their AFI Top 10 Films of the Year list last month, five of the top 10 were movies with Black themes and almost exclusively Black casts, a breakthrough for diversity in the Black filmmaking community on a par with nothing else I can remember when it comes to year-end awards recognition. Those films were Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, George C.
Soul, Eurovision Song Contest and The Queen's Gambit were among the high-profile winners at the 2021 Society of Composers and Lyricists Awards on Tuesday night.
describing the multi-part documentary as “an epic chronicle of life, loss and survival in the city of New York over the twenty years since the September 11th attacks.”In interviews with some 200 New Yorkers and firsthand 9/11 accounts, Lee reveals the resilience of the city in the two decades since the deadliest terror attack on American soil — and now through the painful prism of the pandemic. “As a New Yawker who bleeds orange and blue (the colors of New York City), I’m proud to have a ‘Spike
Mónica Marie Zorrilla HBO Documentary Films and Academy Award and Emmy-winning director and screenwriter Spike Lee are currently in production on “NYC Epicenters 9/11→ 2021½,” a film that will chronicle the life, loss and survival of New York City residents over the twenty years since the terrorist attacks on the original World Trade Center complex.“As a New Yawker who bleeds orange and blue (the colors of New York City), I’m proud to have a ‘Spike Lee Joint’ about how our/my city dealt with
Director Spike Lee and HBO Documentary Films are in production on NYC Epicenters 9/11-2021½, a multi-part documentary described by the network as “an epic chronicle of life, loss and survival in the city of New York over the twenty years since the September 11th attacks.” The epicenters of the title refer to both 9/11 and Covid-19.
Fresh off the successful debut of his recent concert film, “David Byrne’s American Utopia,” it appears Spike Lee is ready to keep his relationship with HBO going strong with another project, a new docuseries focused on New York City and the events of the past 20 years, “NYC Epicenters 9/11→2021½.” READ MORE: Delroy Lindo Revisits ‘Da 5 Bloods’ & Chadwick Boseman’s First Day On Set [Interview] According to HBO, production has already begun on Spike Lee’s next documentary project, “NYC Epicenters
Also Read: 'TheWrap-Up' Podcast: Spike Lee and Delroy Lindo From 'Da 5 Bloods'“As a New Yawker who bleeds orange and blue (the colors of New York City), I’m proud to have a ‘Spike Lee Joint’ about how our/my city dealt with being the epicenters of 9/11 and COVID-19,” Lee said in a statement. “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.
Spike Lee’s children Satchel and Jackson may have made history as Golden Globe Ambassadors this year, but many are wondering why the Globes snubbed Spike and his film “Da 5 Bloods”.
Jackson and Satchel Lee strike a pose together on the red carpet as they arrive for the 2021 Golden Globes held at The Beverly Hilton on Sunday (February 28) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
History will be made at this year’s Golden Globes. For the first time in the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s history, two siblings of color – Jackson Lee, 23, and Satchel Lee, 26 — will serve as ambassadors during the awards show ceremony.
The 2021 Golden Globes is featuring siblings as the 78th annual ceremony’s ambassadors, as director Spike Lee‘s son Jackson and daughter Satchel will getting to shine on the telecast. It won’t be the usual handing awards to the winners and showing them the direction to exit offstage, due to the COVID-19 pandemic causing a smaller ceremony with many of the nominees appearing remotely.
Angelique Jackson Nearly nine months after premiering on Netflix, Spike Lee’s “Da 5 Bloods” will finally debut on the big screen in Los Angeles.The Vietnam War drama will be presented in a special screening event at the Hollywood Legion Theater drive-in on March 5 and 6, the first time the film will be presented theatrically in L.A.In addition to the two-night run, another free screening is planned for Hollywood Post 43 military veterans in celebration of National Vietnam War Veterans Day
Angelique Jackson Jonathan Majors is in talks to star in Spike Lee and Stefon Bristol’s “Gordon Hemingway & The Realm of Cthulhu” at Netflix.Majors is in negotiations to play Gordon Hemingway, teaming up with Lee for a second outing, after starring in the filmmaker’s Netflix hit “Da 5 Bloods,” which debuted to critical acclaim last June.
Brent Lang Executive Editor of Film and MediaThe British playwright, director and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah has signed with CAA and Redefine Entertainment.He currently serves as the artistic director for the Young Vic in London and was previously artistic director of Baltimore Center Stage.