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What is spike lees major accomplishment?

1. BlacKkKlansman (2018)

* Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: BlacKkKlansman won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, written by Spike Lee, Kevin Willmott, and David Rabinowitz.

* BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay: The film also won the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

* Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix: BlacKkKlansman won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival, the festival's second most prestigious award after the Palme d'Or.

* NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture: The film won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Motion Picture.

Additional Accomplishments:

* Spike Lee has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for Do the Right Thing (1989), Malcolm X (1992), and BlacKkKlansman (2018).

* He has also won two Emmy Awards, for the documentary Four Little Girls (1997) and the television film When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts (2006).

* Lee was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2018 for BlacKkKlansman.

* He has also received the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival (1989), the Berlin International Film Festival Silver Bear for Best Director (1990), and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director (1990).

* Lee was inducted into the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 2020.

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