Steven Rodney "
Steve"
McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is an English film director, producer, screenwriter, and video artist. For his 2013 film,
12 Years a Slave, a historical drama adaptation of an 1853 slave narrative memoir, he won an
Academy Award,
BAFTA Award for
Best Film, and
Golden Globe Award for
Best Motion Picture – Drama, as a producer, and he also received the award for best director from the
New York Film Critics Circle. McQueen is the first black filmmaker to win an
Academy Award for
Best Picture. McQueen is known for his collaborations with actor
Michael Fassbender, who has starred in all three of McQueen's feature films as of 2014. McQueen's other feature films are
Hunger (2008), a historical drama about the
1981 Irish hunger strike, and
Shame (2011), starring
Michael Fassbender, a drama about an executive struggling with
sex addiction.