<P> Early in his career he won the Student Academy Award for his film Joe's Bed - Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads . He won awards at the Black Reel Awards for Love and Basketball, the Black Movie Awards for Inside Man, and the Berlin International Film Festival for Get on the Bus . </P> <P> He has been nominated twice for an Academy Award, but never won; in November 2015, he was given an Honorary Academy Award for his contributions to film - making . </P>

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