Steve McQueen

Sir Steve Rodney McQueen CBE born 9 October 1969 is a British film director film producer screenwriter and video artist He has received an Academy Award two BAFTA Awards and the BFI Fellowship and is the first black filmmaker to win the Academy Award for Best Picture winning for 12 Years a Slave 2013 For services to the visual arts he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2011 and in 2014 he was included in Time magazines annual Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world