Production CompanyFilm

40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks

New York, New York(approximate location)

Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film
Founded1983Wikidata
Founded bySpike Lee, Monty RossWikidata
LocationNew York, New York
Website40acres.com
Statusactive2025 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
7.2IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

53 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards
Oscars1of7nominations14%
Emmys3of7nominations43%

212 wins from 935 nominations across all awards

Box office
$506m

Combined US gross, 29 of 61 titles

When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts poster
Highest rated
When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts
2006
8.54,974 votes
Tales from the Hood 2 poster
Lowest rated
Tales from the Hood 2
2018
4.41,783 votes
Mostly
drama, comedy, documentary
Active
1983–2025
Rotten Tomatoes
75%
Best known for
Inside Man

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 55 of 61 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Their television work

Series
56 seasons

2006–2025

Television rating
7.7IMDb

Their films average 7.2, so the television rates 0.4 higher.

Networks
  • HBO3
  • Netflix2

Across 5 series matched to TMDB, 32 episodes.

Longest runningShe's Gotta Have It · 2 seasons

Series identified from OMDb, falling back to the credit type where OMDb had no match. Season counts are each show’s full run, not only the seasons this company was credited on.

Credits24 of 65

57 films · 5 TV titles

Titles per year47 titles · busiest 2018 with 5

47 titles across 29 years, averaging 1.6 a year. The last five years average 0.4 a year, below their long-run rate. 6 of those 29 years carry no credit on file.

Quality over time39 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
3579their average 7.2200020102020

Their 2000s work is their strongest, averaging 7.5 across 15 titles. The 13 titles since 2016 average 7.1, holding at their 7.2 overall. 14 of 39 rated titles sit above their 7.2 average, which is weighted by votes: the most seen titles pull it up.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Spike Lee34
  • Rusty Cundieff3
  • Darin Scott2
Writers
  • Spike Lee16
  • Kevin Willmott3
  • Rusty Cundieff3
  • Darin Scott3
  • Roger Guenveur Smith2
Notable cast
  • Denzel Washington5
  • Delroy Lindo4
  • Wesley Snipes3
  • Spike Lee3
  • Keith David2
Genres
  • Drama34 of 56
  • Comedy18 of 56
  • Documentary15 of 56
  • Crime11 of 56
  • Romance7 of 56

Names appearing on two or more of 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks’s produced titles, across the 56 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with8 companies

Companies that appear alongside 40 Acres & A Mule Filmworks on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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