Spike Lee fears spat with Clint Eastwood will cost him an Oscar
American film director Spike Lee fears that the public argument he had with American actor Clint Eastwood may have botched any chances of him winning an Oscar. Lee had criticised Eastwood for the lack of African-Americans in his war epics ‘Flags of Our Fathers’ and ‘Letters From Iwo Jima’. The director now fears that the controversy, which has risen from his remarks, may have ruined his chances of getting an Academy Award for his new movie ‘Miracle at St. Anna’. “

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*Spike Lee tells King magazine that his chances of ever receiving an Oscar nomination may have been ruined by his public feud with Clint Eastwood earlier this year.       At the Cannes Film Festival in May, Lee called Eastwood on the carpet for the lack of African-American soldiers depicted in his World War II films "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima." In the war of words that ensued, Eastwood said Lee should "shut his face" – to which Lee responded "we're not on

Spike Lee fears Eastwood spat will cost him an oscar
Spike Lee fears his public spat with Clint Eastwood may have cost him an Oscar nod.The director criticised Eastwood for the lack of African-Americans in his war epics Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, and he thinks the controversy that followed his remarks may have ruined his Academy Award chances for new movie Miracle at St. Anna.Lee tells King magazine, "My wife Tonya told me I may have hurt my chances with the Clint Eastwood stuff... They (Oscar voters and Academy bosses) take everything in

Spike Lee fears Eastwood spat will cost him an oscar
Spike Lee fears his public spat with Clint Eastwood may have cost him an Oscar nod.The director criticised Eastwood for the lack of African-Americans in his war epics Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, and he thinks the controversy that followed his remarks may have ruined his Academy Award chances for new movie Miracle at St. Anna.Lee tells King magazine, "My wife Tonya told me I may have hurt my chances with the Clint Eastwood stuff... They (Oscar voters and Academy bosses) take everything in

Lee Fears Eastwood Spat Will Cost Him An Oscar
Spike Lee fears his public spat with Clint Eastwood may have cost him an Oscar nod. The director criticised Eastwood for the lack of African-Americans in his war epics Flags of Our Fathers and Letters From Iwo Jima, and he thinks the controversy that followed his remarks may have ruined his Academy Award chances for new movie Miracle at St. Anna. Lee tells King magazine, "My wife Tonya told me I may have hurt my chances with the Clint Eastwood stuff... They (Oscar voters and Academy bosses) take everythin

Spike Lee: "Nobody is watching motherf**king Driving Miss Daisy today
"My wife Tonya told me I may have hurt my chances with the Clint Eastwood stuff... They (Oscar voters, Academy bosses) take everything into account with me... There's definite bias, considering that my films are typically New York based." www.contactmusic.com

Spike Lee jabs back at Clint Eastwood
And the war of words between Spike Lee and Clint Eastwood goes for one more round. After the 78-year-old Hollywood legend lobed a Dirty Harry-esque one-liner at the pint-sized director - telling him to "shut his face" over criticisms that no African-Americans appeared in Eastwood's drama "Flags of Our Fathers" - Lee has offered up a response. "First of all, the man is not my father and we're not on a plantation," Lee told ABCNEWS.com. "The thing about it though, I didn't personally attack him. And a c

The Man is Still Trying to Keep Spike Lee Down
Originally, when Spike Lee spoke up against the lack of black soldiers in World War II movies, igniting a feud with heavyweights the Coens and Clint Eastwood in doing so, you could almost pass it off as Lee doing what he does best — trying to get some free publicity for his own upcoming WWII movie “Miracle at St. Anna”. With the film, about four black soldiers caught behind enemy lines during the war, set for a September 28 release, Lee is once again making noise, this time bemoaning his l

Movie Trailer: Spike Lee’s “Miracle at St. Anna”
Spike Lee is back in the director's chair in his very first war movie about four African-American soldiers trapped in a Tuscan Village during World War II...

Spike Lee: “Everyone’s Biracial”
“First, I go by the ‘one-drop rule,’” he said in Denver, where he has come to see firsthand his man accept the Democratic nomination for President. “One drop [of black blood], and you’re black. The truth is, every African-American is biracial. Go back far enough, and you’ll find the massah was in the slave quarters. You can’t be black and go to Harvard Law School? You can’t be black and be articulate?” Lee also “respectfully disagrees” wit

Spike Lee - Lee Cant Watch First Film
Moviemaker Spike Lee can't watch his breakthrough 1986 movie SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT because the film was "so raw" he'd rip himself to pieces. Lee insists he's proud of ...

Why Spike Lee Never Wins An Oscar: It’s New York, Dummy
“They take everything into account with me. They take into account that I like the Knicks or that I’m in New York. If you did a survey, the bulk of the people who vote in the Academy are in Los Angeles. There’s definite bias, considering that my films are typically New York-based.” Who would ever votes for films set in New York, like Grand Hotel, It Happened One Night, Gentleman’s Agreement, All About Eve , The Apartment, West Side Story, Midnight Cowboy..? Share and Enjoy

Lee fears Eastwood spat will cost him an Oscar
Spike Lee fears his public spat with Clint Eastwood may have cost him an Oscar nod.

TIFF Review: Spike Lee’s Miracle At St. Anna
Spike Lee’s Miracle At St. Anna is definitely not the type of movie you want to see tired, in the early morning hours. But that was my experience. I’ve seen many World War II films over the years, and Anna is distinctly a Spike Lee Joint. It has the obvious race perspective war story you expect, mix one part combined murder mystery (which is used as a framing device), and the obtrusive bass-y grandiose score (ala Inside Man). If you’ve seen the trailer then you know that it all begins wit

Spike Lee: what does John Wayne represent? this is the Holl
"This is the Hollywood bulls*** mythology that excludes plenty of people. You look at John Wayne. What does John Wayne represent? In a World War II film John Wayne is kicking Nazi ass, in the Pacific he's kicking Japanese ass, and in the Western he's killing the savage Indians." ww

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Spike Lee takes on 'Time Traveler'
Spike Lee will co-write and direct "Time Traveler," a feature adaptation of a memoir by Ronald Mallett, one of the nation's first African-Americans to earn a Ph.D in theoretical physics. Lee acquired "Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality" with his own money and has set up the project through his Forty Acres & A Mule Filmworks banner. Mallett, who wrote the book with Bruce Henderson, recounts his rise from poverty to a distinguished academic and scientific career,

Toronto Film Fest Includes Spike Lee, Coens Movies
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Spike Lee Still Backing Wesley Snipes For James Brown Role.
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Lee embracing sequel to 'Inside Man'
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- U.S. director Spike Lee says he is excited to be working on a sequel to his 2006 crime drama "Inside Man."

Film director Spike Lee to head Babelgum Fest jury
MILAN, Italy - Spike Lee again is on the prowl for new filmmaking talent in his second year heading the jury of the Babelgum Online Film Festival.

Spike Lee may revisit Katrina
Spike Lee may not be done with Hurricane Katrina yet. The director of the HBO miniseries "When the Levees Broke" said Thursday he's considering visiting the area where Katrina struck again in the next 24 months for a potential follow-up to "Levees." "I'm going to go back, not just to New Orleans but to other areas affected, because it's not over," he said at Silverdocs, the AFI/Discovery Channel documentary fest in Silver Spring, Md., near Washington, D.C. While Lee didn't specify what the project

Spike Lee's Inside Man 2 Moving Forward at Universal!
This has definitely been in the works for a while, but today it's officially confirmed. Spike Lee, who is visiting to Toronto to debut Miracle at St. Anna, confirmed that Inside Man 2 is moving forward at Universal. Terry George (of Hotel Rwanda and Reservation Road) is in negotiations to write the screenplay with Spike Lee planning to return as director as well. The sequel will pick up with the same characters and dynamic but not the same storyline, which is a bit confusing, but Lee seems to think it'l

Lee Can't Watch First Film
Moviemaker Spike Lee can't watch his breakthrough 1986 movie SHE'S GOTTA HAVE IT because the film was "so raw" he'd rip himself to pieces. Lee insists he's proud of every movie he has made but he knows he'd have huge problems with his first feature - if he was ever prepared to watch it again. He explains, "It's painful for me, because I was so raw as a filmmaker then, and I'd really tear the film apart if I revisited it. I'd rather not put myself through that torture... I just can't watch it." Em

Spike Lee does the right thing in France for forgotten black troops
Spike Lee visited a World War II cemetery near France's D-Day landing beaches before presenting the European premiere of his film about the forgotten contribution of African-American soldiers to the war that freed Europe from Nazi tyranny. "I was surprised to find African-Americans buried there too," he told reporters after his trip to one of the many cemeteries on the Normandy coast where lie thousands of Allied soldiers killed as they stormed ashore in 1944. The D-Day landings