Tonight on the 2019 Academy Awards, Spike Lee has taken dwelling his first non-honorary Oscar award. His movie BlacKkKlansman has received Best Adapted Screenplay. His collaborators Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, and Kevin Willmott have been additionally honored. In complete, it was nominated for 5 Oscars, together with Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Score. Watch Lee’s acceptance speech under.
In 2015, Lee acquired an Academy Honorary Award for his contribution to movie. BlacKkKlansman—the political 1970s-set movie starring John David Washington and Adam Driver—contains a uncommon Prince recording of “Mary Don’t You Weep.” Tonight on the award present, Lee paid tribute to the late legend with an all-purple swimsuit and custom-made necklace donning the image Prince adopted as his identify.
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