# Was Spike Lee muted at the Oscars?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 25, 2019, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-spike-lee-muted-at-the-oscars/830164 "2019-02-25T04:55:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![snoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/43a26b/32.png) [@snoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snoe)\
**Post date:** [February 26, 2019, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/was-spike-lee-muted-at-the-oscars/830164/21 "2019-02-26T03:27:31Z")

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I happen to like many of his movies (including this year’s), love a few of them, and generally dig his politics by and large (with notable exceptions). Moreover, I respect the guy as a craftsman and an artist. So I totally dig that he took his mike time to say what the fuck he wanted, and spoke his mind, and continues to.

(Yes, using the speech time to go off did take away his co-writers’ chances to thank a bunch of people we don’t know. As a member of the audience, who doesn’t know those people, I was glad to see someone say/do something interesting. As with Ms. Colman’s utterly opposite, and utterly charming, speech.)

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