BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical black comedy crime drama film directed by Spike Lee. The plot follows the first African-American detective in the city’s police department as he sets out to infiltrate and expose the local Ku Klux Klan chapter. The film stars John David Washington as Stallworth, along with Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, and Topher Grace. It received six nominations at the 91st Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Driver.
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BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American biographical black comedy crime drama film directed by Spike Lee and written by Charlie Wachtel, David Rabinowitz, Kevin Willmott and Lee. The plot follows the first African-American detective in the city’s police department as he sets out to infiltrate and expose the local Ku Klux Klan chapter. The film stars John David Washington as Stallworth, along with Adam Driver, Laura Harrier, and Topher Grace. It premiered on May 14, 2018, at the Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Grand Prix. It received six nominations at the 91st Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Driver, and won for Best Adapted Screenplay, making it Lee’s first competitive Academy Award. The American Film Institute also selected it as one of the top 10 films of 2018, and at the 76th Golden Globe Awards it earned four nominations, including best Motion Picture – Drama. The movie was theatrically released in the United States on August 10, 2018. It was released a day before the first anniversary of the Unite the Right rally. The book is based on the 2014 memoir Black Klansman by Ron Stallworth. QC Entertainment purchased the film rights to the book in 2015, and Lee signed on as director in September 2017.
In 1972, Stallworth is hired as the first black officer in the Colorado Springs Police Department. He gets bored and asks for the position of an undercover cop. He is assigned to infiltrate a local rally where national civil rights leader Kwame Ture gives a speech. Stallworth begins dating Patrice Dumas, president of the Black Student Union at Colorado College, but does not tell her that he is a police officer. After the rally, he is reassigned to the intelligence division. He calls posing as white, he speaks with Walter Breachway, the president of Colorado Springs, Colorado chapter, but soon realizes not only did he use his real name, but he also has to go and meet the Klan members. Under Stallworth’s identity, he meets Walter, the slightly more reckless Felix Kendrickson, and Ivanhoe, who cryptically refers to an upcoming attack. The real Stallworth leaves the ceremony to place a bomb at a local civil rights rally. When they set it off, the explosion kills all three of them, and Stallworth and Patrice are arrested, and the case is closed with Patrice celebrating the case with a party. The next night, Patrice is remorselessly admitting to his assault on the two, remorly admitting he is wearing a wire on his car.
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