In 2016, the NYPD paid the director $200,000 to consult on a new policing campaign. He has directed commercials for Levi's, Nike, Converse, Taco Bell, and Ben & Jerry's, and even starred in a Capital One commercial with Charles Barkley and Samuel L. Lee's career has reached beyond film as well. But it wasn't even his biggest-grossing film - 2006's Inside Man raked in $88 million domestically and $187 million worldwide. Last year's BlacKkKlansman had a $15 million budget and earned big bucks at the box office - $48.3 million domestically and $87.1 million worldwide, to be specific. From there, Lee went on to make Do the Right Thing, Mo' Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcom X, Red Hook Summer, Summer of Sam, He Got Game, and many more, most of which take place in Brooklyn, where he grew up. It grossed $7 million at the box office when it came out. His celebrated films Malcolm X, Inside Man and 25th Hour. Iconoclastic director of the 1989 film Do the Right Thing, which earned him critical praise and an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. Lee's first feature film, She's Gotta Have It, was also one of his most acclaimed and celebrated (so much so that Lee adapted it into a Netflix show in 2017). Spike Lee is best known as Actor, director, producer, screenwriter who has an estimated Net Worth of 50 Million. In that time, Lee has made a lot of movies and, with them, a lot of money. But now his film BlacKkKlansman is up for six Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, almost 30 years after his Do the Right Thing Best Director snub. The awards show, often tagged #OscarsSoWhite, has long neglected to recognize artists of color, and prior to this year, Lee had only been nominated for two Academy Awards - in 1990 for Best Original Screenplay for Do the Right Thing, and again in 1998 for Best Documentary Feature for 4 Little Girls. Spike Lee is one of the most prolific film directors in American history, and yet this Sunday, February 24, might mark the first time he wins an Academy Award, at the age of 61.
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