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César Award Best Foreign Film 2015 · Nominated
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British Academy of Film & Television Arts Editing 2014 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Supporting Actor 2014 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Production Design 2014 · Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role 2014 · Nominated
Academy Award Production Design 2014 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Original Score - Motion Picture 2014 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Original Music 2014 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Screenplay - Motion Picture 2014 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Adapted Screenplay 2014 · Nominated
Academy Award Film Editing 2014 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Director - Motion Picture 2014 · Nominated
Academy Award Directing 2014 · Nominated
Academy Award Actor in a Leading Role 2014 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Supporting Actress 2014 · Nominated
Academy Award Costume Design 2014 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama 2014 · Nominated
Screen Actors Guild Awards Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role 2014 · Nominated
British Academy of Film & Television Arts Cinematography 2014 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 2014 · Nominated
Golden Globe Best Performance By an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Motion Picture 2014 · Nominated
At the 86th Academy Awards, the film received nine nominations including Best Picture and Best Director for McQueen; it went on to win three awards: Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay for Ridley, and Best Supporting Actress for Nyong'o.
12 Years a Slave (2013) became the first film directed and produced by a black filmmaker ( Steve McQueen) and also the first to be written by an African-American ( John Ridley) to win the Academy Award for Best Motion Picture of the Year. 2014 Nominee Oscar. Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role. Chiwetel Ejiofor. 2014 Nominee Oscar.
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12 Years a Slave, American dramatic film, released in 2013, that impressed critics and audiences with its harrowing depiction of slavery in the antebellum South. The movie won the BAFTA Award and the Academy Award for best picture as well as the Golden Globe Award for best drama. Based on the autobiographical narrative (1853) of Solomon Northup, the film chronicles the grueling experiences of slavery and the dehumanizing effects of human bondage on everyone involved.
The film opens with the enslaved Solomon Northup (played by Chiwetel Ejiofor) in a sugarcane field with other slaves and then tells Northup’s story in an extended flashback. Northup was born a freeman in New York. He is married with two children and is an accomplished violinist. Two men (Scoot McNairy, Taran Killam) entice him to Washington, D.C., with the promise of a high-paid job playing music in a circus of sorts. They drug him and deliver him to a slave pen, from which he is shipped to New Orleans and sold by a slave trader (Paul Giamatti) as a runaway slave named Platt to a relatively kind plantation owner, Ford (Benedict Cumberbatch). Northup incurs the enmity of Ford’s slave handler, Tibeats (Paul Dano). Tibeats arranges to have Northup lynched, but Ford’s overseer, Chapin (J.D. Evermore), stops the lynching moments before Northup is actually hanged. Because of Tibeats’s hostility, Ford sells Northup to Epps (Michael Fassbender), a particularly vicious and alcoholic plantation owner.
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On Epps’s plantation, Northup becomes friends with another slave, Patsey (Lupita Nyong’o). Epps pays particular attention to Patsey, often expressing his obsession by raping her, and his jealous wife (Sarah Paulson) frequently attacks her. At one point, Epps decides that Patsey has earned punishment, and he forces Northup to whip her. Northup’s repeated attempts to regain his freedom finally yield success when Bass (Brad Pitt), a Canadian abolitionist working as a hired hand for Epps, is convinced that Northup’s story is true and alerts the authorities in Northup’s hometown of Saratoga Springs, New York. A sheriff arrives with a neighbour of Northup’s from Saratoga, and he is released.
Northup’s memoir was researched and verified by American researchers Sue Eakin and Joseph Logsdon, and they published an annotated edition of the book in 1968. Director Steve McQueen had already expressed interest in making a film about slavery in the United States when Northup’s book was brought to his attention. McQueen was the first black producer and the first black director of a movie that won the Oscar for best picture. Kenyan actress Lupita Nyong’o made her feature film debut in 12 Years a Slave, and she won the Oscar for best supporting actress for her portrayal of Patsey.
•Studios: Regency Enterprises, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment, and New Regency Pictures
•Director: Steve McQueen
•Writers: John Ridley (screenplay), Solomon Northup (memoir)
•Music: Hans Zimmer
•Chiwetel Ejiofor (Solomon Northup)
•Scoot McNairey (Brown)
•Taran Killam (Hamilton)
•Paul Giamatti (Freeman, the slave trader)
•Benedict Cumberbatch (Ford)
•Paul Dano (Tibeats)
•Picture*
•Lead actor (Chiwetel Ejiofor)
•Supporting actor (Michael Fassbender)
•Supporting actress* (Lupita Nyong’o)
•Costume design
•Directing
- Pat Bauer
Nov 8, 2013 · IMDb page for the 2013 biographical drama film based on the true story of Solomon Northup, a free Black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery. See the film's ratings, awards, trivia, quotes, soundtrack, and user and critic reviews.
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- 2013-11-08
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[8] [9] The film was awarded the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama, and the British Academy of Film and Television Arts recognized it with the BAFTA Awards for Best Film and Best Actor for Ejiofor. [10] .
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