![]() ![]() ![]() This fellowship is for all the people that have helped me. “One person might accept an award,” says Lee, speaking from Los Angeles, “but a lot of people were responsible that you don’t see. Previous recipients have included Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier, Elizabeth Taylor and Steve McQueen. His films have chronicled black lives and challenged assumptions about race, class and gender in interviews and speeches, he has thundered against social injustice, police brutality and the entertainment industry’s problems with representation.įor all of this and more, Lee was this week awarded the BFI Fellowship, the highest honour bestowed by the British Film Institute to individuals for their “outstanding contribution to film or television culture”. After a career spanning more than 30 years, the 65-year-old has developed a reputation as Hollywood’s conscience. “Pussy Galore,” he repeats, laughing.Īlthough the film-maker’s grasp of cinema has come a long way since then, there is still something in him reminiscent of that six-year-old boy: curious, unafraid to speak his mind, keen to ask awkward questions. My mother grabbed me by the neck and said: ‘Don’t say another word!’” Lee cackles, clearly tickled. I said: ‘Mommy, why is that lady named Pussy Galore?’ And the whole audience heard me. Those Bond films have explosions and shootings, but there was a lull in the action and everything was quiet. She loved James Bond and took me to see Goldfinger. And since I was the eldest sibling, I was her movie date. ‘When I was little,” says Spike Lee, “my father hated Hollywood films, but my mother was a cinephile. ![]()
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