He left Goldsmiths and studied briefly at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in the United States. He took A-level art at Ealing, Hammersmith and West London College, then studied art and design at Chelsea College of Arts and then fine art at Goldsmiths College, University of London, where he first became interested in film. He was a keen football player, turning out for the St. McQueen added that he was dyslexic and had to wear an eyepatch because of a lazy eye, and reflected this may be why he was "put to one side very quickly". Later, the new head of the school would admit that there had been institutional racism at the time.
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In a 2014 interview, McQueen stated that he had a very bad experience in school, where he had been placed into a class for students believed best suited "for manual labour, more plumbers and builders, stuff like that". He grew up in Ealing, West London and went to Drayton Manor High School. McQueen was born in London to a Grenadian mother and a Trinidadian father, his parents both having migrated to England. In the same year, McQueen was awarded the Award for Cinematic Production by the Royal Photographic Society and is to receive Cologne Film Prize in honor of his life’s work this year. McQueen was knighted in the 2020 New Year Honours, for services to film. In 2016, he was granted the British Film Institute's highest honour, the BFI Fellowship. In 2014, Time magazine included McQueen in its annual Time 100 list of the "most influential people in the world". McQueen is the first black filmmaker to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. For 12 Years a Slave, he won the Academy Award for Best Picture, the BAFTA Award for Best Film, the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director. For services to the visual arts, he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011. In 2006, he produced Queen and Country, which commemorates the deaths of British soldiers in Iraq by presenting their portraits as a sheet of stamps. įor his artwork, McQueen has received the Turner Prize, the highest award given to a British visual artist. In 2020, he released Small Axe, a collection of five films "set within London's West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early '80s".
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He also directed and co-wrote Hunger (2008), a historical drama about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, Shame (2011), a drama about an executive struggling with sex addiction, and Widows (2018), an adaptation of the British television series of the same name set in contemporary Chicago. He is known for his award-winning film 12 Years a Slave (2013), an adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 slave narrative memoir. Sir Steve Rodney McQueen CBE (born 9 October 1969) is a British film director, screenwriter, film producer, television writer, television producer, and television director.
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