Steve McQueen (Artist)

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Steve McQueen at the premiere of 12 Years a Slave at the Toronto International Film Festival (2013)

Sir Steve McQueen CBE (born October 9, 1969 in London ) is a British director and video artist . For his work on the film 12 Years a Slave , he was awarded the Oscar in the category Best Picture at the 2014 Academy Awards .

Life

He studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design , Goldsmiths College in London and Tisch School in New York City . In 1999 he received a scholarship from the Berlin artist program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). In 1999 he received the Turner Prize for his photographs and installations .

His first films are experimental, shot minimalist in black and white and refer to the silent film ( Buster Keaton ).

In 2003, McQueen was named an Official Martial Artist for the Iraq War by the British Imperial War Museum . After his stay in Iraq, he started the project Queen and Country in 2006 , which shows the portraits of fallen British soldiers on a sheet of postage stamps.

In 2008 McQueen presented his first feature film at the Cannes International Film Festival . Hunger describes the last six weeks of life of IRA member Bobby Sands (played by Michael Fassbender ), who died in 1981 after 66 days on a hunger strike in the H blocks . For this McQueen received the Caméra d'Or (film award for first film). In 2009 Steve McQueen represented Great Britain at the Venice Biennale in Venice .

In 2011 he received an invitation to compete at the 68th Venice International Film Festival for his second feature film, Shame . Once again, McQueen relied on Michael Fassbender as the leading actor, who plays a sex-addicted man in New York who receives a visit from his younger sister ( Carey Mulligan ).

In 2013, the literary adaptation based on real events followed , with Chiwetel Ejiofor as the main actor in the role of the enslaved Solomon Northup and Benedict Cumberbatch and again Michael Fassbender, both of whom were plantation owners. It premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and earned McQueen the Oscar for best film and the New York Film Critics Circle directing award .

In November 2014, McQueen announced the next film project would be a biography of the singer and civil rights activist Paul Robeson .

With Widows - Tödliche Witwen , he brought a heist thriller with female lead roles to the cinema in 2018, for which he also wrote the script together with bestselling author Gillian Flynn . The film with Viola Davis , Michelle Rodríguez , Elizabeth Debicki and Cynthia Erivo is based on the British television series Widows (2 seasons in 1983 and 1985) penned by Lynda La Plante ( Hot Suspicion ). When asked that "during the shooting, the clap of thunder from the #MeToo movement made Hollywood shake" and that his film "exactly matched the mood of the post-#MeToo era", McQueen replied: "At thirteen I saw the series on television and was able to identify strongly with these women who are resisting their fate. I was a little black boy in London. One might assume that something has changed in terms of discrimination since then. So I'm all the happier if the film helps to bring about the changes, who have started to move forward. "

Exhibitions

Filmography

Film awards

Steve McQueen with the Oscar for Best Picture for 12 Years a Slave

Academy Award

  • 2014 : Best Film for 12 Years a Slave

Nominations:

  • 2014 : Best Director in 12 Years a Slave

Golden Globe Award

Nominations:

  • 2014 : Best Director in 12 Years a Slave

British Academy Film Awards

  • 2014 : Best Film for 12 Years a Slave
  • 2009 : Best young talent for hunger

Nominations:

  • 2014 : Best Director in 12 Years a Slave
  • 2012 : Best British Film for Shame
  • 2009 : Best British Film for Hunger

Berlin artist program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

  • 1999: Scholarship in Berlin

Web links

Commons : Steve McQueen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Berlin artist program: guests. DAAD, accessed on September 9, 2019 .
  2. ^ Art Fund: Celebrating Contemporary: Steve McQueen's Queen and Country. In: Art Fund. September 23, 2011, accessed September 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Toronto to open with U2 doc; world premieres from Payne, Besson, Pawlikowski . In: Screen International , July 27, 2011 (accessed via LexisNexis Wirtschaft ).
  4. ↑ Alex Needham: Steve McQueen to make film about Paul Robeson. In: The Guardian. November 18, 2014, accessed September 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Mariam Schaghaghi: Interview with star director: How strong is there still discrimination in Hollywood, Steve McQueen? December 6, 2018 ( faz.net [accessed September 9, 2019]).
  6. ^ Friedrich Meschede (Ed.): Steve McQueen - Barrage . König, Cologne 2000, ISBN 3-88375-417-X .
  7. ↑ The canvases that mean nothing in Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung of June 23, 2013, page 44
personal data
SURNAME McQueen, Steve
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British artist, photographer and director
DATE OF BIRTH October 9, 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England, UK