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Wide exterior of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel2. Wide pan right of Spike Lee posters3. Wide of Spike Lee posing for photographers4. Camera cutaway5. Medium of backdrop6. Spike Lee speaks to...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eAP Entertainment\u003cbr/\u003eLos Angeles, 26 March 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide exterior of the Beverly Wilshire Hotel\u003cbr/\u003e2. Wide pan right of Spike Lee posters\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of Spike Lee posing for photographers\u003cbr/\u003e4. Camera cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e5. Medium of backdrop\u003cbr/\u003e6. Spike Lee speaks to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e7. SOUNDBITE:  (English) Spike Lee/Director:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well I think that most important, this award is just not for one particular film. It's for the body of work we've done from 1986 'She's Gotta Have It' to 2008,  my new film is coming out in October called, 'Miracle at St. Ana,' so it's for the body of work.\"\u003cbr/\u003e8. John Singleton Lee speaks to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE: (English) John Singleton/Director:\u003cbr/\u003e\"He has always been there. Even when I was in school for me to talk to about what I was going to do. That was great because over twenty years later that we've known each other and we're still rolling. We're still kicking ass in the movie business and doing what we got to do. I think that a lot of people don't realise that if it weren't for Spike there is a whole lot of people in this business that wouldn't be working. He established a whole lot of careers in front of and behind the cameras. I think not too many people talk about it as much as they should.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Camera cutaway\u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide push in of Rosie Perez posing for photographers\u003cbr/\u003e12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rosie Perez/Actor, on how she met Spike Lee:\u003cbr/\u003e\"It was pretty controversial. We ended up getting into an argument. He had bouncers take me down and I thought I was going to get kicked out of the club and instead they called me over to him. He shook my hand and he said, 'This is fate, and I was like, yeah right.' He was right. He asked me to be in 'Do the Right Thing.' Actually he asked me to audition. Everyone thinks he just handed me the role. It wasn't. He asked me to audition and I did and it changed everything for me.\"\u003cbr/\u003e13. Damon Wayans speaks to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Damon Wayans/Actor:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well you know what I love about Spike? Spike does not profess to be funny. But he knows what is funny. All of his films have elements of comedy because he allows the actors to bring their sensibility. He encourages that, for you to. Guys like Robin Harris who nobody really knew, but he was in Spike Lee movies and he was the comic relief. I think Spike understands that sometimes his movies are so heavy, the subject matter, it needs levity. So he allows actors like I said to breed their comedic side into their work. Even Denzel has been funny in a Spike Lee movie.\"\u003cbr/\u003e15. Wide pan of arrivals\u003cbr/\u003e16. Musician Patti Austin speaks to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Patti Austin/Musician:\u003cbr/\u003e\"Spike has passion for life. He infuses it into his work and makes everybody else respond the same way. You might not have liked what he does, but you sure will feel something about it.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Spike Lee speaks to reporter\u003cbr/\u003e19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Spike Lee/Director, on how he feels about Barack Obama quoting lines from \"Malcom X\":\u003cbr/\u003e\"Great. Even 'Hoodwinked, Let us stray, 'Bamboozled,' 'Do the Right Thing.'\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Wide of arrivals\u003cbr/\u003eAmerican film director, producer, writer and actor Spike Lee was honoured Wednesday night  (27MAR08) by the 6th Annual Behind the Lens Award sponsored by Chrysler LLC. \u003cbr/\u003eHollywood friends John Singleton, Rosie Perez, Damon Wayans and Patti Austin all joined to celebrate Lee's ground breaking career in the entertainment industry.\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well I think that most important, this award is just not for one particular film,\" noted Spike Lee. \"It's for the body of work we've done from 1986 'She's Gotta Have It' to 2008.\" \u003cbr/\u003eLee has earned two Oscar nominations and is most popularly know for works such as \"Do the Right Thing,\" \"Jungle Fever,\" \"Malcom X\" and \"Inside Man.\" \u003cbr/\u003eDirector John Singleton described Lee as an extraordinary filmmaker who kick started the careers of many of his peers.\u003cbr/\u003e\"He has always been there. Even when I was in school for me to talk to about what I was going to do,\" Singleton noted. \"That was great because over twenty years later that we've known each other and we're still rolling. We're still kicking ass in the movie business and doing what we got to do. I think that a lot of people don't realise that if it weren't for Spike there is a whole lot of people in this business that wouldn't be working. He established a whole lot of careers in front of and behind the cameras. I think not too many people talk about it as much as they should.\"\u003cbr/\u003eOne of those actors is Rosie Perez who worked with Lee on his 1989 Oscar nominated movie \"Do The Right Thing\". \u003cbr/\u003ePerez recalled being in a club where a man was leading a contest for women with big behinds.  Angered, she jumped on the stage and told the women it was degrading.\u003cbr/\u003eThe man was director Spike Lee, who had just made the movie \"She's Got to Have It.\"  \"It was pretty controversial. We ended up getting into an argument,\" remembers Perez. \"He had bouncers take me down and I thought I was going to get kicked out of the club and instead they called me over to him. He shook my hand and he said, 'This is fate, and I was like, yeah right.' He was right. He asked me to be in 'Do the Right Thing.' Actually he asked me to audition. Everyone thinks he just handed me the role. It wasn't. He asked me to audition and I did and it changed everything for me.\"\u003cbr/\u003eComic actor Damon Wayans  starred in Lee's 2000 comedy drama 'Bamboozled.'\u003cbr/\u003e\"Well you know what I love about Spike? Spike does not profess to be funny. But he knows what is funny,\" noted Wayans. \"All of his films have elements of comedy because he allows the actors to bring their sensibility. He encourages that, for you to. Guys like Robin Harris who nobody really knew but he was in Spike Lee movies and he was the comic relief. 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