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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". He was nominated twice for an Academy Award, but never won; in November of 2015, he was given an Honorary Academy Award for his contributions to film-making. Though very powerful, and one of most memorable films "Do The Right Thing" only received a nomination from the Academy in 1990.