Was the cinematographer for Spike Lee's NYU thesis film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), and later won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematography for Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989).
Made his directorial debut in 1992 with Juice.
Won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Single Camera Photography (Film or Electronic) for the TV-movie Our America (2002).
Has directed several popular rappers, including Tupac Shakur in Juice, Ice-T in Surviving the Game (1994), Snoop Dogg in Bones (2001) and DMX in Never Die Alone (2004).
Ernest R. Dickerson
June 25, 1951 (age 73)
Newark, New Jersey, USA
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Was the cinematographer for Spike Lee's NYU thesis film, Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983), and later won a New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematography for Lee's Do the Right Thing (1989).
Made his directorial debut in 1992 with Juice.
Won a Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in Single Camera Photography (Film or Electronic) for the TV-movie Our America (2002).
Has directed several popular rappers, including Tupac Shakur in Juice, Ice-T in Surviving the Game (1994), Snoop Dogg in Bones (2001) and DMX in Never Die Alone (2004).
