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12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery.
For 12 Years a Slave, he won the Academy Award for Best Picture, [39] the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. [89] McQueen is the first black filmmaker to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. [90] He is also the first person to win both an Academy Award and the Turner Prize. [91]
John Ridley IV [1] (born October 1, 1964) [2] is an American screenwriter, television director, novelist, and showrunner, known for 12 Years a Slave, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
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The 12 Years A Slave director will receive a knighthood for services to art and film.
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 historical drama film directed and produced by Steve McQueen.It is an adaptation of the 1853 autobiographical slave narrative memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup, a New York-born free negro who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery.
Pohlad was the executive producer of the movies Brokeback Mountain, A Prairie Home Companion, and Food, Inc., and a producer of Into the Wild and 12 Years a Slave. On January 24, 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Award (as producer) for the film The Tree of Life. [1] [2]