Steve McQueen

Sir Steve Rodney McQueen CBE born 9 October 1969 is an English film director film producer screenwriter and video artist Known for directing films that deal with intense subject matter he has received several awards including an Academy Award two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award He was honoured with the BFI Fellowship in 2016 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2020 for services to art and film In 2014 he was included in Time magazines annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world McQueen began his formal training studying painting at Londons Chelsea College of Art and Design He later pursued film at Goldsmiths College and briefly at New York University Influenced by Jean Vigo JeanLuc Godard François Truffaut Ingmar Bergman and Andy Warhol McQueen started making short films In 1999 McQueen was awarded the Turner Prize for the range and emotional intensity of his art He made his featurelength directorial debut with the historical drama Hunger 2008 which focused on the 1981 Irish hunger strike followed by the erotic psychosexual drama Shame 2011 which explored sex addiction He won the Academy Award for Best Picture directing the historical drama 12 Years a Slave 2013 He also directed the contemporary crime thriller Widows 2018 and the World War II drama Blitz 2024  For television he released Small Axe 2020 a collection of five anthology films set within Londons West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early 80s He also directed the BBC documentary series Uprising 2021 and the documentary film Occupied City 2023 Description above from the Wikipedia article Steve McQueen director licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia