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Steve McQueen (director)

For the American actor, see Steve McQueen. For other people named Steve McQueen, see Steve McQueen (disambiguation).

Sir Steve McQueen
CBE
McQueen at DIFF 2024
Born (1969-10-09) 9 October 1969 (age 55)[1]
London, England
Alma materGoldsmiths, University of London (BFA)
Occupations
  • Film director
  • film producer
  • screenwriter
  • video artist
Years active1993–present
Style
SpouseBianca Stigter[2]
Children2
AwardsFull list

Sir Steve Rodney McQueen CBE (born 9 October 1969) is a British film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. Known for directing films that deal with intense subject matters, 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.[3][4] In 2014, he was included in Time magazine's annual Time 100 list of the "most influential people in the world".[5][6]

McQueen began his formal training studying painting at London's Chelsea College of Art and Design. He later pursued film at Goldsmiths College and briefly at New York University. Influenced by Jean Vigo, Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Ingmar Bergman, and Andy Warhol, McQueen started making short films.[7] In 1999 McQueen was awarded the Turner Prize for his "range" and "emotional intensity" of his art.[8]

He made his feature length directorial film 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 London's 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).[9]

  1. ^ "Steve McQueen". British Film Institute. 9 October 1969. Archived from the original on 12 July 2012. Retrieved 1 August 2013.
  2. ^ Kino, Carol (28 January 2010). "Intense Seeker of Powerful Elegance". The New York Times. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Director Sir Steve McQueen receives knighthood at Windsor Castle". Evening Standard. 15 March 2022. Retrieved 6 November 2024.
  4. ^ Korsner, Jason (24 August 2016). "12 Years A Slave director Steve McQueen to become BFI Fellow". What's Worth Seeing. Retrieved 25 August 2016.
  5. ^ Corliss, Richard (24 April 2014). "Why Steve McQueen Is One of the TIME 100". Time Magazine. Retrieved 24 April 2014.
  6. ^ Nyong'o, Lupita (23 April 2014). "Steve McQueen". Time. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
  7. ^ "Movies & TV - Famous British People - Steve McQueen". Biography. 5 May 2021. Retrieved 19 May 2023.
  8. ^ "Turner Prize 1999". Tate.org. Retrieved 17 November 2024.
  9. ^ White, Peter (10 September 2019). "'Small Axe': BBC Unveils First-Look At Steve McQueen Period Drama". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 3 June 2020.

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