Spike Lee's Unwavering Praise for Denzel Washington's 'Malcolm X' Performance

Denzel Washington and Spike Lee’s days of collaboration might be numbered

Lee’s newest movie, ‘Highest 2 Lowest’ starring Washington and A$AP Rocky, premiered Monday at the Cannes Film Festival

Spike Lee's Unwavering Praise for Denzel Washington's 'Malcolm X' Performance

Spike Lee's Unwavering Praise for Denzel Washington's 'Malcolm X' Performance At the prestigious Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Spike Lee voiced his steadfast belief that Denzel Washington deserved an Oscar for his role in 'Malcolm X.' Lee's latest creation, 'Highest 2 Lowest,' a modern homage to Akira Kurosawa's 'High and Low,' features Washington, inciting considerable excitement during its out-of-competition screening.During a press conferen…

Spike Lee Says Denzel Washington Should Have Won the Oscar for ‘Malcolm X’: ‘No Disrespect to My Brother Al Pacino’ Though

Spike Lee is calling out a bad call from the Academy more than 30 years later: The auteur, along with most cinephiles, is convinced that Denzel Washington was snubbed for the Best Actor Oscar for “Malcolm X.” Al Pacino instead won over Washington for “Scent of a Woman.” During the Cannes press conference for Lee’s latest (and allegedly final) collaboration with Washington, “Highest 2 Lowest,” the director compared the Academy’s decision to a poo…

With 'Highest 2 Lowest,' Spike Lee Gives Us Another Great New York Movie

No filmmaker loves the dirty old town that is New York more than Spike Lee. Some of us who live there will return from a day out and about—a day whose adventures might include traversing streets strewn with trash, or catching news of some terrible shooting or stabbing (though that happens less often than you’d imagine)—and still think, This, and nowhere else, is home. Spike Lee’s Highest 2 Lowest, playing out of competition here at the Cannes Fi…

The director returns to the festival, four years after having directed the jury, with an existential film. In the long chat we talk about sports, duties, his mission as film professor

Spike Lee Says Denzel Washington Should Have Won Oscer for 'Malcolm X'

If you ask Spike Lee, Denzel Washington deserved an Oscar for his role in Malcolm X. That year, the Best Male Actor trophy went to Al Pacino for his role in Scent of a Woman.