Director and actor
Spike Lee averages 6.70, Giancarlo Esposito averages 6.28. Apart that suggests 6.49; together they average 6.90, a lift of +0.41.
Lift is the average of their films together minus the mean of their two career averages.
1989Best
1990Dot size shows IMDb votes; lines are rolling five-film averages. Films with fewer than 1,000 votes are left out.
Each column is a film in release order. Filled squares mark who was in it, colored by the film's rating.
| School Daze | 1988 | 6.1 | 8,799 | Writer, Producer, Director | as Julian 'Big Brother Almighty' Eaves |
 Do the Right Thing | 1989 | 7.9 | 127K | as Mookie, Director, Producer, Writer | as Buggin Out |
 Mo' Better Blues | 1990 | 6.7 | 15,186 | Producer, as Giant, Director, Writer | as Left Hand Lacey (Piano) |
| Delroy Lindo |
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| Ossie Davis |
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| Samuel L. Jackson |
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| Wesley Snipes |
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| Joie Lee |
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| Thomas Jefferson Byrd |
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| Rosario Dawson |
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| Angela Bassett |
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