There was no direct mention of Trump at the Oscars, except for Spike Lee’s hint at choosing “love versus hate” at the 2020 presidential elections.
That still prompted a response from the president, and subsequently from Seth Meyers during L…
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Big winners at the 2019 Oscars
A lot of fan favorites took home awards on Sunday’s show. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Spike Lee, Rami Malek, Mahershala Ali, and Oscar Winners
View More Big winners at the 2019 OscarsSpike Lee was not cool with ‘Green Book’ winning Best Picture at the Oscars
Spike Lee is also angry about Green Book winning Best Picture.
The BlacKkKlansman director was reported to have stood up and waved his hands in disgust during Sunday’s Oscars ceremony, when Julia Roberts announced Green Book as the winner of the night’s top prize.
As per the Associated Press:
Lee reportedly tried to leave, but was stopped, and eventually returned to his seat.
Spike Lee was visibly angry when “Green Book” was announced as the winner of best picture at the Oscars, waving his arms in disgust and appearing to try to storm out of the Dolby Theatre before he was stopped at the doors. He returned to his seat when the speeches were over.
— Andrew Dalton (@andyjamesdalton) February 25, 2019 Read more…
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View More Spike Lee was not cool with ‘Green Book’ winning Best Picture at the Oscars‘BlacKkKlansman’ earns Spike Lee first Oscar nomination for Best Director
Lee has previously been nominated twice at the Oscars for best screenplay and best documentary. Read more…More about Mashable Video, Spike Lee, Best Director, Oscar Nominations, and Blackkklansman
View More ‘BlacKkKlansman’ earns Spike Lee first Oscar nomination for Best DirectorUh oh: Newspaper cover confuses Spike Lee for Stan Lee
We’ve all made a typo in our time.
So has New Zealand’s Gisborne Herald, who made an almighty error on the front page of its Tuesday newspaper when it commemorated the late comic book legend Stan Lee.
While the Herald had published a photo of the Marvel great, who died at 95, the caption pointed to director Spike Lee, who is very much alive.
RIP … *checks notes*
SPIKE LEE.@gisbornenews pic.twitter.com/8uJ0FSfTLW
— Kenny Williams (@Ohheykenny) November 13, 2018
The mistake is very real, as per the newspaper’s website, but it’s yet to speak up about the error. Read more…
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View More Uh oh: Newspaper cover confuses Spike Lee for Stan LeeWhy Spike Lee cast a Finnish actor as the most fanatical white supremacist in ‘BlacKkKlansman’
When Jasper Pääkkönen walked out of the audition room after reading for the main white supremacist role in BlacKkKlansman, Spike Lee was absolutely convinced the actor was born and bred in the States – which is fittingly symbolic for a film based entirely on false perceptions, impersonations, and doppelgängery of almost Shakespearean proportions.
“At some point Spike looked at my last name, which has a lot of umlauts, a lot of dots,” Pääkkönen told Mashable during an hour-long phone interview as he was driving through the Finnish countryside towards the capital.
“Spike stops me in the middle of the scene and goes, ‘Hold on, hold on, hold on! Where are you from?’ And I go, ‘um, Helsinki, Finland.’ Read more…
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View More Why Spike Lee cast a Finnish actor as the most fanatical white supremacist in ‘BlacKkKlansman’Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ gets a trailer following a massive Cannes premiere
The crowd stood up and roared with appreciation for six straight minutes as the credits rolled on Spike Lee’s BlacKkKlansman, which premiered at Cannes on Monday. Meanwhile, this trailer gives us all a first look at the prolific filmmaker’s lates…
View More Spike Lee’s ‘BlacKkKlansman’ gets a trailer following a massive Cannes premiere‘She’s Gotta Have It’ actress to co-star in ‘Captain Marvel’ alongside Brie Larson
It’s a good day to be the gorgeously talented breakout star of Spike Lee’s She’s Gotta Have It, DeWanda Wise. Aside from the news that the Netflix show is getting a second season, she’s also joining the star-studded cast of Captain Marvel in a role o…
View More ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ actress to co-star in ‘Captain Marvel’ alongside Brie LarsonHere’s how ‘Old Boy,’ a 2003 film, deviates from the original manga in just a few very meaningful ways
It made our list of favorite adaptations of all time, so here’s a deep dive into the bonkers story of a man locked away for years, and his struggle to get revenge. Park Chan-wook’s incredible 2003 film deviates from the original manga in just a few V…
View More Here’s how ‘Old Boy,’ a 2003 film, deviates from the original manga in just a few very meaningful ways‘She’s Gotta Have It’ is a fierce, unapologetic love letter to young people of color
In the current climate, for both media and politics, we’re oversaturated. We’re at peak TV, peak reboots, peak outrage, and peak fatigue towards having to stay active, alert, and woke.
Under the circumstances, it’s tough work for a television show to not feel like excess; why here, and why now? Spike Lee may not have planned for his updated She’s Gotta Have It – a black and white movie from the ’80s that’s now a vivacious and colorful Netflix show – to release into that landscape, but the series thrives on adversity. Born into a perfect storm of sociopolitical context, She’s Gotta Have It is more than its circumstances or the sum of its parts; it’s just good. Read more…
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View More ‘She’s Gotta Have It’ is a fierce, unapologetic love letter to young people of color