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Adam Driver, holding a red card, sits beside John David Washington in a scene from BlacKkKlansman, with a bulletin board covered in photos and maps behind them.
BlacKkKlansman Adam Driver (left) and John David Washington in BlacKkKlansman (2018), directed by Spike Lee.

BlacKkKlansman is a 2018 American satirical crime film directed by Spike Lee. The film is based on the memoir of Ron Stallworth, a Black police officer in Colorado Springs, Colorado, who infiltrated the local Ku Klux Klan chapter in the 1970s.12

The movie was lauded as a biting commentary on enduring racial tensions in the United States. Lee won the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay for it, his first competitive win. The film also won an Academy Award for Writing (Adapted Screenplay) in 2019.132

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