Steve McQueen’s film 12 Years A Slave won the Oscar for “Best Picture”! More inside….
12 Years A Slave was chosen as “Best Picture” during this evening’s 2014 Academy Award broadcast. Directed by Steve McQueen, produced by Brad Pitt, Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner, (atop), the film was both a critical and box-office success, winning the award for best director from the New York Film Critics Circle and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture. And the film introduced “Best Actor” nominee Chiwetel Ejiofor to a worldwide audience of admirers. Chiwetel spoke earlier in the evening about his love for the film:
“I was stunned by it. You always have a hope when you’re making films, when you get to see them and they’ve gone off and gotten edited that when they come back they meet your hope and expectation of what they should be. This time it exceeded my expectation. I found it unbelievable what Steve McQueen had done.”
Earlier in the evening, Lupita Nyong’o won the Oscar for “Best Supporting Actress” for her role in “12 Years A Slave.”
This is the first Best Picture winning film with a black director. Backstage, Steve posed with his Oscar, his partner Biance Stigter and his mom.
Also, screenwriter John Ridley won the Oscar for adapted screenplay for “12 Years A Slave”, which was based on the the 1853 memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup.
Congrats all around! Much deserved.
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