Which multiple-Oscar-winner who famously never attends the ceremony made an exception after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and gave a brief tribute to New York City at the 2002 Oscars?

The controversial director has set the majority of his films in his native New York. He was born in Brooklyn on December 1, 1935, and was a longtime Knicks season ticket holder.

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