Which film director won the Oscar for Best Picture for the film 12 Years a Slave in 2013?
"Steve McQueen (director) Steven Rodney McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is a British film director and screenwriter. For his 2013 film, ""12 Years a Slave"", a historical drama adaptation of an 1853 slave narrative memoir, he won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award for Best Film, and Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, as a producer, and he also received the award for Best Director from the New York Film Critics Circle. McQueen is the first black filmmaker to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. McQueen frequently collaborates with actor Michael Fassbender, who has starred in three"
"""12 Years a Slave"" was named the best film of 2013 by several media outlets. The film holds a rating of 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, indicating ""universal acclaim"". It earned over $187 million on a production budget of $22 million. The film won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Nyong'o, and Best Adapted Screenplay for Ridley. The Best Picture win made McQueen the first black British producer to ever receive the award and the first black British director of a Best Picture winner. The film was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture"
"a sex addict whose life is suddenly turned upside-down when his estranged sister (Carey Mulligan) reappears. McQueen's next film was ""12 Years a Slave"" (2013). Based on the 1853 autobiography of the same name by Solomon Northup, the film tells the story of a free black man who is kidnapped in 1841 and sold into slavery, working on plantations in the state of Louisiana for twelve years before being released. The film won the Academy Award for Best Picture in March 2014, becoming the first Best Picture winner to have a black director or producer. McQueen signed on to develop"
"films of 2013, each taking three top honors. The former won Best Picture, Best Screenplay (John Ridley), and Best Supporting Actress (Lupita Nyong'o), while the latter won Best Director (Alfonso Cuarón), Best Cinematography (Emmanuel Lubezki), and Best Musical Score (Steven Price). The Best Picture win for ""12 Years a Slave"" continued a trend of critics groups across the United States giving their top prizes to the film adaptation of the autobiography by Solomon Northup, a free negro who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. Only one other film, ""Dallas Buyers Club"", earned multiple 2013 honors from the DFWFCA. Set in"
"ability to truly bring about a newfound racial consciousness among a national, mainstream audience ... The film also was a period piece that featured a happy ending ushered in by a 'white savior' in the form of Brad Pitt's character."" ""12 Years a Slave"" has received numerous awards and nominations. It earned three Academy Awards, including Best Picture. It won the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. The film also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, while Ejiofor received the Best Actor award. In addition, the motion picture has been named as one of the best"
"in 1840s Louisiana. It stars Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong'o, Sarah Paulson, Paul Dano, and Paul Giamatti. ""12 Years a Slave"" (2013) won three Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Nyong'o, and Best Adapted Screenplay for John Ridley. In her acceptance speech, Nyong'o paid tribute to Walker, describing him as ""the invisible performer in the editing room."". The film was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts recognized it with the Best Film and Best Actor for Ejiofor. Walker's partnership with Denis"
"d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. His most recent film, ""12 Years a Slave"" (2013), won several major international awards, and McQueen is the first black filmmaker to win an Academy Award for Best Picture. Numerous Black British actors have become successful in US television, such as Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Idris Elba, Lennie James, Marsha Thomason and Marianne Jean-Baptiste. Black British actors are also increasingly found starring in major Hollywood movies, notable examples include Adrian Lester, Antonia Thomas, Ashley Walters, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Colin Salmon, Daniel Kaluuya, David Harewood, David Oyelowo, Delroy Lindo, Eamonn Walker, Franz Drameh, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Hugh Quarshie,"
"roles by stating “only 4 out of 10 movies turn a profit, according to the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers. But because pictures with nearly all-black casts come along more infrequently, they tend to stand out more when they fail"". The then and now 2014 Academy Awards were a turning point for African-American films, with the film ""12 Years a Slave"" taking home the Oscar for Best Picture. In 2013, five African-American films were released (""12 Years a Slave"", ""Fruitvale Station"", ""Lee Daniels' The Butler"", ""Best Man Holiday"" and """"). The release of such films had a broader"
"MacFarlane, host of the ceremony, and actress Emma Stone. ""Lincoln"" received the most nominations with twelve total, and ""Life of Pi"" came in second with eleven. The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on February 24, 2013. ""Argo"" was the fourth film to win Best Picture without a directing nomination, following 1927's ""Wings"", 1932's ""Grand Hotel"", and 1989's ""Driving Miss Daisy"". As co-producer of ""Argo"", George Clooney became the third individual to win Oscars for both acting and producing. By virtue of his nomination for Best Original Song in ""Ted"", host Seth MacFarlane became the first person since James"
"by John Ridley, the picture stars Chiwetel Ejiofor as Solomon Northup. Much of the photography was taken in the summer of 2012 in the New Orleans area. ""Twelve Years a Slave"" won the 2013 Academy Award for Best Picture. In his acceptance speech for the honor, director McQueen thanked Eakin: ""I'd like to thank this amazing historian, Sue Eakin, whose life — she gave her life's work to preserving Solomon’s book."" Eakin discovered Northup's narrative when she was twelve years of age and again when in college; in time, she pushed the project to fruition after many years of work."
"films of 2013 by various ongoing critics, appearing on 100 critics' top-ten lists in which 25 had the film in their number-one spot. This is both the most of any film released in its production year. 12 Years a Slave (film) 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 period drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave narrative memoir ""Twelve Years a Slave"" by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup was put to work on plantations in the state of"
"12 Years a Slave (score) 12 Years a Slave is the original soundtrack album to the 2013 film ""12 Years a Slave"" starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, and Lupita Nyong'o. The record contains twenty-one tracks from the original film score written and composed by Hans Zimmer. The score was widely admired and thought of as a contender for the Academy Award for Original Music Score at the 86th Academy Awards. Critical acclaim has been given to the score itself, with high praise and widespread acclaim across the film industry being bestowed upon it, despite its limited"
"Outstanding British Film, Best Cinematography, Best Original Music, Best Sound, and Best Special Visual Effects. ""12 Years a Slave"" won Best Film and Best Actor in a Leading Role for Chiwetel Ejiofor. Cate Blanchett won Best Actress in a Leading Role for ""Blue Jasmine"", Barkhad Abdi won Best Actor in a Supporting Role for ""Captain Phillips"", and Jennifer Lawrence won Best Actress in a Supporting Role for ""American Hustle"". The ceremony was broadcast on BBC One and BBC Three. It was hosted by Stephen Fry, the ninth time he's hosted the ceremony. The ceremony opened with a duet call ""Heroes"""
"film of the same name. The end of 2013 saw the release of ""12 Years a Slave"", which ultimately won the coveted Best Picture Award at the 2014 Oscars. In 2014 he went on to work on ""Kill the Messenger"" and Barry Levinson's ""Rock the Kasbah"", starring Bill Murray. Bobbitt won an Independent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography for his work on ""12 Years a Slave"". In the same year he was also nominated for a BAFTA, American Society of Cinematographers (ASC) Award, Satellite Award, Broadcast Film Critics Association Award, amongst many others. Sean Bobbitt Sean Francis Bobbitt, B.S.C. (born"
"directing ""Apollo 13""); 2000 (Steven Soderbergh won the Oscar for directing ""Traffic""); 2002 (Roman Polanski won the Oscar for directing ""The Pianist""); and 2012 (Ang Lee won the Oscar for directing ""Life of Pi"" as Ben Affleck was not nominated for directing ""Argo""). This does not count 1948–49, when the DGA used a non-calendar award year (unlike the Academy Awards); both 1948 and 1949 DGA winners competed for the 1949 Academy Award for Best Director, which went to the 1948 DGA winner (Joseph L. Mankiewicz for ""A Letter to Three Wives""). Conversely, sixteen times has the representing film directed by"
"produced by Neil Meron and Craig Zadan and directed by Hamish Hamilton. Actress Ellen DeGeneres hosted the show for the second time, having previously hosted the 79th ceremony held in 2007. In related events, the Academy held its 5th annual Governors Awards ceremony at the Grand Ballroom of the Hollywood and Highland Center on November 16, 2013. On February 15, 2014, in a ceremony at The Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Kristen Bell and Michael B. Jordan. ""12 Years a Slave"" won three awards including Best Picture. ""Gravity"""
"12 Years a Slave (film) 12 Years a Slave is a 2013 period drama film and an adaptation of the 1853 slave narrative memoir ""Twelve Years a Slave"" by Solomon Northup, a New York State-born free African-American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. Northup was put to work on plantations in the state of Louisiana for 12 years before being released. The first scholarly edition of Northup's memoir, co-edited in 1968 by Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, carefully retraced and validated the account and concluded it to be accurate. Other"
"Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2013 The 18th Florida Film Critics Circle Awards were given on December 18, 2013. 12 Years a Slave Chiwetel Ejiofor – ""12 Years a Slave"" Cate Blanchett – ""Blue Jasmine"" Jared Leto – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" Lupita Nyong'o – ""12 Years a Slave"" Steve McQueen – ""12 Years a Slave"" ""Her"" – Spike Jonze ""12 Years a Slave"" – John Ridley ""Gravity"" – Emmanuel Lubezki Gravity ""The Great Gatsby"" – Catherine Martin and Beverley Dunn The Act of Killing ""Blue Is the Warmest Colour"" • France Frozen Lupita Nyong'o – ""12 Years a Slave"" Dana"
"Keith of the Miami Beach Cinematheque for his tireless championing of foreign, independent and alternative film in South Florida for more than 20 years. Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 2013 The 18th Florida Film Critics Circle Awards were given on December 18, 2013. 12 Years a Slave Chiwetel Ejiofor – ""12 Years a Slave"" Cate Blanchett – ""Blue Jasmine"" Jared Leto – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" Lupita Nyong'o – ""12 Years a Slave"" Steve McQueen – ""12 Years a Slave"" ""Her"" – Spike Jonze ""12 Years a Slave"" – John Ridley ""Gravity"" – Emmanuel Lubezki Gravity ""The Great Gatsby"" – Catherine"
"29th Independent Spirit Awards The 29th Independent Spirit Awards announced its nominees on November 27, 2013. The winners were announced on March 1, 2014. It was hosted by Patton Oswalt. Winners are listed first and in bold. 12 Years a Slave Fruitvale Station"", Director: Ryan Coogler; Producers: Nina Yang Bongiovi, Forest Whitaker Steve McQueen – ""12 Years a Slave"" Matthew McConaughey – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" Cate Blanchett – ""Blue Jasmine"" Jared Leto – ""Dallas Buyers Club"" Lupita Nyong'o – ""12 Years a Slave"" John Ridley – ""12 Years a Slave"" Bob Nelson – ""Nebraska"" Sean Bobbitt – ""12 Years a"
"John Ridley John Ridley IV (born October 1965) is an American screenwriter, film director, novelist, and showrunner, known for ""12 Years a Slave"", for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also the creator and showrunner of the critically acclaimed anthology series ""American Crime"". His most recent work is the documentary film """". Ridley was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was raised from the age of seven in Mequon, Wisconsin, with an ophthalmologist father, John Ridley, III, and a mother, Terry Ridley, who was a special education teacher for Milwaukee Public Schools. He has two"
"appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in 2002, he was created Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to the visual arts. McQueen is a former fan of English football club Tottenham Hotspur, quitting after admitting that it affected his day too much. Steve McQueen (director) Steven Rodney McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is a British film director and screenwriter. For his 2013 film, ""12 Years a Slave"", a historical drama adaptation of an 1853 slave narrative memoir, he won an Academy Award, BAFTA Award for"
"the only non-white directed film to win an Academy award was Steve McQueen for 12 Years A Slave, winning best picture. There is also a disparity in the budgets and box office grosses between films with white and non-white directors, with white director’s budgets being higher on average. The Evolve Entertainment Fund was created January 2018 to provide a resource for people from under-served communities the opportunity to find work in the entertainment industry. A recent 2018 study from IndieWire found that for actors of color, pay issues have an even steeper climb. At a time when Hollywood’s bottom line"
"to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Spielberg was also the first to win Best Director from both the Saturn Awards and the Academy Awards at the same year, but for different movies (Saturn Award for ""Jurassic Park"", and Academy Award for ""Schindler's List"", both in 1993); Peter Jackson was the first to win both for the same film ("""", in 2003) while Alfonso Cuarón was the second (for ""Gravity"" in 2013). Notes: ""†"" indicates an Academy Award-winning movie on the same category. ""‡"" indicates an Academy Award-nominated movie on the same category. Saturn Award for Best Director The"
"major directors: Steve McQueen and Denis Villeneuve . His first collaboration with McQueen, ""Hunger"" (2008), was a portrayal of the IRA hunger strikes at Long Kesh starring Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands. It won the Caméra d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Joining again the team of McQueen, Fassbender and cinematographer Sean Bobbitt, Walker cut ""Shame"" (2011). This told the story of a successful Manhattanite navigating the terrain of sexual obsession on a path towards self-destruction. Their third collaboration was ""12 Years a Slave"" (2013), the true story of Solomon Northup, a free man kidnapped and sold into slavery, set"
"on the short film ""Awake"", directed by Lori Lovoy-Goran, who won a DGA Student Film Award and a SXSW Competition Award for her documentary short film ""In Between Days"". Chris Terrio Chris Terrio (born December 31, 1976) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known for writing the screenplay for the 2012 film ""Argo"", for which he won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Terrio also won the Writers Guild Award for Best Adapted Screenplay of 2012 and was nominated for Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay, a BAFTA and the 2013 Los Angeles Film Critics"
"Anthony Katagas Anthony Katagas is a Greek-American Academy Award-winning film producer. He is an alumnus of Western New England University in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he majored in government and was captain of the lacrosse team as a goalie. He also represented Greece at the 2018 World Lacrosse Championship. Katagas won an Academy Award for Best Picture for his role in producing ""12 Years a Slave."" Katagas' awards include a BAFTA, Golden Globe, Broadcast Critics' Choice Award, Independent Spirit Award and the Darryl F. Zanuck PGA Award for Best Picture. He has had four films nominated for the Palme d'Or and"
"66th British Academy Film Awards The 66th British Academy Film Awards, more commonly known as the BAFTAs, were held on 10 February 2013 at the Royal Opera House in London, honouring the best national and foreign films of 2012. The nominations were announced on 9 January 2013. Presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, accolades were handed out for the best feature-length film and documentaries of any nationality that were screened at British cinemas in 2012. Stephen Fry hosted the ceremony, where ""Argo"" won Best Film and Best Director for Ben Affleck. Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor"
"the source material and focused his attention on the subjects of racial slavery and colonization, and the deep relationships between the two friends. He was more drawn to the project since it dealt with themes of faith in a very ""potent manner"". The studio approached him in October 2013, after he wrote the screenplay for ""12 Years a Slave"", which went on to win an Oscar the following year. The studio wanted him to make ""a production polish that deals with just honing the story and making it filmable."" Tom Hiddleston was originally considered for the title role, Judah Ben-Hur."
"DuVernay and David Oyelowo in directing and lead acting categories. He also noted that these nominations were in contrast to last year's ceremony which included Best Picture winner ""12 Years a Slave"" and Best Supporting Actress winner Lupita Nyong'o. As a result, the Academy was ridiculed over Black Twitter with hashtags such as #OscarsSoWhite and #WhiteOscars. In addition, U.S. Congressman Tony Cárdenas wrote a letter voicing his concern regarding AMPAS and diversity stating, “While the issue of diversity in the entertainment industry is a much deeper problem, without an easy solution, it is unfortunate to see such a revered American"
"Cup for Best Actor at the Venice Film Festival and was nominated for Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards. In 2013, his role as slave owner Edwin Epps in the slavery epic ""12 Years a Slave"" was similarly praised, earning him his first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. In 2013, Fassbender appeared in another Ridley Scott film, ""The Counselor"". In 2015, he portrayed the title role in the Danny Boyle-directed biopic ""Steve Jobs"" (2015), and played Macbeth in Justin Kurzel's adaptation of William Shakespeare's play. For the former, he received Academy Award, BAFTA, Golden Globe and SAG nominations. In 2015,"
"2009, the critics’ group have agreed with the Academy on six occasions: Steven Soderbergh for ""Traffic"" (2000), Clint Eastwood for ""Million Dollar Baby"" (2004), Ang Lee for ""Brokeback Mountain"" (2005), Martin Scorsese for ""The Departed"" (2006), Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for ""No Country for Old Men"" (2007), and Kathryn Bigelow for ""The Hurt Locker"" (2009). Oscar winner denoted by * New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director The New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director is one of the awards given by the New York Film Critics Circle to honour the finest achievements in filmmaking."
"director in history to receive this award, at the age of 32 for his work on ""La La Land"". Two directing teams have shared the award; Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins for ""West Side Story"" in 1961 and Joel and Ethan Coen for ""No Country for Old Men"" in 2007. The Coen brothers are the only siblings to have won the award. Kathryn Bigelow is the only woman to have won the award, for 2009's ""The Hurt Locker"". As of the 2018 ceremony, Guillermo del Toro is the most recent winner in this category for his work on ""The Shape"