Online versions of the Goldenrod Handouts have color images : April 5, 2016 (XXXII:10) http://csac.buffalo.edu/goldenrodhandouts.html Spike Lee, MALCOLM X (1992, 202 min) Malcolm X (1992, 202 minutes) Directed by Spike Lee Written by Malcolm X & Alex Haley (book "The Autobiography of Malcolm X") and Arnold Perl & Spike Lee (screenplay). And James Baldwin (uncredited). Produced by Spike Lee and Marvin Worth Music Terence Blanchard Cinematography Ernest R. Dickerson Film Editing Barry Alexander Brown Casting Robi Reed Production Design Wynn Thomas Art Direction Tom Warren Set Decoration Ted Glass Costume Design Ruth E. Carter Larry McCoy…Sammy Maurice Sneed…Cadillac Academy Awards, USA 1993 Debi Mazar…Peg Nominated Phyllis Yvonne Stickney…Honey Best Actor in a Leading Role Denzel Washington Scot Anthony Robinson…Daniel Best Costume Design Ruth E. Carter Sonny Jim Gaines…Cholly Joe Seneca…Toomer National Film Preservation Board, 2010 LaTanya Richardson Jackson…Lorraine Giancarlo Esposito…Thomas Hayer Cast Leonard L. Thomas…Leon Davis Denzel Washington…Malcolm X Roger Guenveur Smith…Rudy Angela Bassett…Dr. Betty Shabazz Craig Wasson…TV Host Albert Hall…Baines Bobby Seale…Speaker #1 Al Freeman Jr. …Elijah Muhammad Al Sharpton…Speaker #2 Delroy Lindo…West Indian Archie Christopher Plummer…Chaplain Gill Spike Lee…Shorty Karen Allen…Miss Dunne Theresa Randle…Laura Peter Boyle…Captain Green Kate Vernon…Sophia William Kunstler…The Judge Lonette McKee…Louise Little Nelson Mandela…Soweto Teacher Tommy Hollis …Earl Little Ossie Davis…Eulogy Performer (voice) James McDaniel…Brother Earl Ernest Thomas…Sidney Spike Lee (b. Shelton Jackson Lee on March 20, 1957, in Jean-Claude La Marre …Benjamin 2X Atlanta, Georgia) moved at a very young age from pre-civil O.L. Duke…Pete rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York. Lee came from Lee—MALCOLM X—2 artistic, education-grounded Mini-Series documentary), Inside Man (2006), 25th Hour background; his father was a jazz (2002), A Huey P. Newton Story (2001, TV Movie musician, and his mother, a documentary), The Original Kings of Comedy (2000, schoolteacher. He attended school Documentary), Pavarotti & Friends 99 for Guatemala and in Morehouse College in Atlanta Kosovo (1999, TV Movie documentary), Summer of Sam and developed his film making (1999), He Got Game (1998), Michael Jackson: HIStory on skills at Clark Atlanta University. Film - Volume II (1997, Video documentary, video "They After graduating from Morehouse, Don't Care About Us"), Girl 6 (1996), Clockers (1995), Lee attended the Tisch School of Crooklyn (1994), Malcolm X (1992), Jungle Fever (1991), Arts graduate film program. He Mo' Better Blues (1990), Do the Right Thing (1989), made a controversial short, The Answer (1980), a School Daze (1988), She's Gotta Have It (1986), Joe's Bed- reworking of D.W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation (1915). Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), Sarah (1981, In 1986, Spike Lee made the film, She's Gotta Have It Short), The Answer (1980, Short) and Last Hustle in (1986), a comedy about sexual relationships. The movie Brooklyn (1979, Short). was made for $175,000, and earned $7 million at the box office, which launched his career and allowed him to found Arnold Perl (b. April 14, 1914—d. December 11, 1971, his own production company, 40 Acres & a Mule age 57) briefly attended Cornell University, but did not Filmworks. His next movie was School Daze (1988), which graduate. He had written for the television series The Big was set in a historically black school, focused mostly on Story, Naked City, The Doctors and the Nurses, East the conflict between the school and the Fraternities, of Side/West Side and N.Y.P.D., which he created with David which he was a strong critic, portraying them as Susskind. Perl co-wrote the screenplay for Cotton Comes materialistic, irresponsible, and uncaring. With his School to Harlem (1970), actor Ossie Davis' film directing debut. Daze (1988) profits, Lee went on to make his landmark Perl also wrote the play Tevye and his Daughters. Perl also film, Do the Right Thing (1989), a movie based specifically wrote and directed the documentary film Malcolm X his own neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York. The movie (1972). He was nominated posthumously for the Academy portrayed the racial tensions that emerge in the Bed-Stuy Award for Best Documentary Feature for his work on the neighborhood on one very hot day. The movie garnered film in 1973. Perl's script for the film was later re-written Oscar nominations for Best Original Screenplay, for Danny by Spike Lee for his 1992 film. His writing credits are: Aiello for supporting actor, and sparked a debate on racial Malcolm X (1992, screenplay), Malcolm X (1972, relations. Lee went on to produce the jazz biopic Mo' Documentary, screen adaptation) Fiddler on the Roof Better Blues (1990), the first of many Spike Lee films to (1971, adapted from Sholem Aleichem stories by special feature Denzel Washington, including tonight’s film. The arrangement with), The Sheriff (1971, TV Movie), Cotton pair would work together again on, He Got Game (1998), Comes to Harlem (1970, screenplay), N.Y.P.D. (1967- an excursion into the collegiate world showing the darker 1969, TV Series, creator - 49 episodes), Bob Hope Presents side of recruiting college athletes, as well as the 2006 film the Chrysler Theatre (1967, TV Series, 1 episode), Die Inside Man (2006). Spike Lee's role as a documentarian höhere Schule (1964, TV Movie), Espionage (TV Series) has expanded over the years, highlighted by his part in (1963, writer - 1 episode), The Doctors and the Nurses Lumière and Company (1995), the Oscar-nominated 4 (1963, TV Series, 2 episodes), Tevye and His Seven Little Girls (1997), to his Peabody Award-winning Daughters (1962, TV Movie), The World of Sholom biographical adaptation of Black Panther leader in A Huey Aleichem (1959, TV Movie), Jazz on a Summer's Day P. Newton Story (2001), through his 2005 Emmy Award- (1959, Documentary), and The Big Story (1949, TV Series, winning examination of post-Katrina New Orleans in When 2 episodes). He has also served as the producer on 3 the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006) and its projects, Malcolm X (1972, Documentary, associate follow-up five years later in If God Is Willing and da Creek producer), East Side/West Side (1963-1964, TV Series, Don't Rise (2010). This year he was to receive an executive producer - 7 episodes), Deadline (1959, TV Honorary Award at the Oscars, which he boycotted due to Series, producer - 30 episodes). the lack of diversity amongst nominees. Lee has directed 65 films including Chi-Raq (2015), Jerrod Carmichael: Terence Blanchard (b. March 13, 1962 in New Orleans, Love at the Store (2014, TV Special documentary), Da Louisiana). A world-renowned trumpeter/composer/band Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014), Amex Unstaged Pharrell leader and Blue Note recording artist, maybe the most Williams Live at the Apollo (2014, Video), Oldboy (2013), prolific jazz musician to ever compose for motion pictures. Red Hook Summer (2012), If God Is Willing and da Creek Blanchard was born and raised in New Orleans where he Don't Rise (2010, TV Series documentary), Passing studied with the Marsalis brothers at the famed New Strange (2009), Shark (2006, TV Series,1 episode), When Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. In 1980, he won a the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006, TV scholarship to Rutgers University and immediately began Lee—MALCOLM X—3 performing in the Lionel Hampton Orchestra. Two years cinematographer on 26 projects, including Our America later, he succeeded Wynton Marsalis in the legendary Jazz (2002, TV Movie), Malcolm X (1992), Cousin Bobby Messengers before forming his own influential groups. (1992, Documentary), Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll (1991, Blanchard originally began performing on Spike Lee's Documentary), Jungle Fever (1991), Law & Order (1990- soundtracks, including Mo Better Blues in which he 1991, TV Series, director of photography, 6 episodes), Mo' ghosted the trumpet for Denzel Washington. He has also Better Blues (1990), Do the Right Thing (1989), Bruce performed the trumpet for the Val Kilmer character in The Springsteen: Video Anthology 1978-1988 (1989, Video Salton Sea (2002) and along with Awadagin Pratt, documentary,video "Born in the U.S.A."), Negatives Blanchard performed the piano for the Samuel L. Jackson (1988), School Daze (1988), Eddie Murphy: Raw (1987, character in The Caveman's Valentine (2000). Blanchard Documentary), Enemy Territory (1987), Tales from the has composed for over 60 films and TV shows, some of Darkside (1984-1986, TV Series, 8 episodes), She's Gotta which are Chi-Raq (2015, music score), Katrina 10 Years Have It (1986), Desiree (1984), The Brother from Another After the Storm with Robin Roberts (2015, TV Movie), Planet (1984) and Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Black or White (2014), Red Tails (2012), Bunraku (2010), Heads (1983). If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise (2010, TV Series documentary, 1 episode), Cadillac Records (2008), Miracle at St. Anna (2008), Talk to Me (2007), Who the #$&% Is Jackson Pollock? (2006, Documentary), When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006, TV Mini-Series documentary), Waist Deep (2006), Inside Man (2006), Their Eyes Were Watching God (2005, TV Movie), She Hate Me (2004), 25th Hour (2002), Dark Blue (2002),People I Know (2002), Barbershop (2002), Jim Brown: All American (2002, TV Movie documentary), Glitter (2001), Original Sin (2001), Bojangles (2001, TV Movie), A Girl Thing (2001, TV Movie), The Caveman's Valentine (2001), Summer of Sam (1999), The Tempest Denzel Washington (b. December 28, 1954 in Mount (1998, TV Movie), Eve's Bayou (1997), 4 Little Girls Vernon, New York) has won two Oscars, once in 2002 for (1997, Documentary), Get on the Bus (1996), Clockers Best Actor in a Leading Role for Training Day (2001) and (1995), Trial by Jury (1994), Crooklyn (1994), The Inkwell once in 1998 for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Glory (1994), Assault at West Point: The Court-Martial of (1989).