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Workers walk to work at an export processing zone early in the morning after crossing the Mongla river in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)Workers walk to work at an export processing zone early in the morning after crossing the Mongla river in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

A worker brushes mannequin wigs at a factory inside an export processing zone in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)A worker brushes mannequin wigs at a factory inside an export processing zone in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)Punur Daan, a fisherman, catches baby shrimp from Pasur River in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Punur Daan, a fisherman, catches baby shrimp from Pasur River in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)Craftsmen build a fishing boat at Chila Bazar, in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Craftsmen build a fishing boat at Chila Bazar, in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)

Reshma Begum, 28, collects water from the Pasur River in Mongla, Bangladesh, March 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Mahmud Hossain Opu)But writing and directing some of modern cinema’s most quotable scenes only occupy a portion of his professional life.

Since a trip to Ethiopia in 1985 during the famine, Curtis has also devoted much of his time and energy to charitable causes: Co-foundingfor years and helping create organizations like Make Poverty History and more. Decades of work has helped raise more than $2 billion and supported over 170 million people.

On Sunday he’s being celebrated for those efforts by. Getting an Oscar is especially exciting for Curtis who remembers as a teen having to wait until the night after to watch the broadcast in the U.K.