Director Spike Lee’s first feature-length film, “She’s Gotta Have It,” premiered in theaters on August 8, 1986.
“She’s Gotta Have It” is a comedy that follows Nola Darling, a free-spirited Black woman living in Brooklyn, New York, and her relationships with three suitors. Lee himself appears in the film as one of those suitors, a bike messenger named Mars Blackmon.
Among Lee’s other notable works are “Do the Right Thing” and “School Daze,” his second and third feature-length films. “Do the Right Thing” earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Through his production company, 40 Acres and a Mule, Lee has produced dozens of films — many of them known as “Spike Lee joints” — since the 1980s.
