内容摘要：She recalls how when she was little she would see buffalo roam through the village’s fields where rice, corn and chilis would grow. Some neighbors kept fish ponds filled with catfish they could sell at the market or eat themselves.

She recalls how when she was little she would see buffalo roam through the village’s fields where rice, corn and chilis would grow. Some neighbors kept fish ponds filled with catfish they could sell at the market or eat themselves.

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.