Directed by AFI Honorary Degree recipient Spike Lee and adapted from Ron Stallworth’s true story about his undercover investigation into the Ku Klux Klan as a Black detective in the 1970s, BLACKKKLANSMAN (2018) was honored with an AFI AWARD, recognizing it as one of the year’s most outstanding achievements in the art of the moving image. According to the official rationale, “BLACKKKLANSMAN raises a defiant fist against the racism and bigotry that defines modern day America. Spike Lee’s masterful telling of this true tale leaves audiences breathless – both for its interplay of hope and hate – and the realization that the world we live in has not progressed far from the birth of our nation. John David Washington and Adam Driver lead an extraordinary ensemble that transcends identity to shine a light in dark corners, exposing institutions that still allow intolerance to dim the dream of all power to all people.”
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