Steve McQueen
Director · Producer · Since 2008
Steve McQueen is a British director whose part of the work happens before the audience arrives. Drama keeps recurring across the credit list. The tally is 32 titles between the two screens. '12 Years a Slave' is the project that outgrew the rest of the list. 'Shame' is close behind in visibility.
Steve McQueen
Director · Producer · Since 2008
12 Directed · 1 Series
Steve McQueen is a British director whose part of the work happens before the audience arrives. Drama keeps recurring across the credit list. The tally is 32 titles between the two screens. '12 Years a Slave' is the project that outgrew the rest of the list. 'Shame' is close behind in visibility.
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How old is Steve McQueen and where are they from?
Steve McQueen is 57 years old, born on October 9, 1969 in London, England, UK.
What are the most famous roles of Steve McQueen?
Steve McQueen is best known for directing 12 Years a Slave, Shame, Widows.
How many movies has Steve McQueen directed?
Over a 33-year career (since 1993), Steve McQueen has directed or written 12 films and worked on 1 TV shows.
What was Steve McQueen's first movie?
The career of Steve McQueen began with End Credits ().
What is Steve McQueen's most recent movie or series?
Steve McQueen's most recent release is Blitz, which premiered on November 1, 2024.
What TV shows has Steve McQueen created or directed?
On television, Steve McQueen has appeared in Small Axe, Uprising, Last Days.
Steve McQueen
1969-10-09 · London, England, UK
Sir Steve Rodney McQueen CBE (born 9 October 1969) is an English film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. Known for directing films that deal with intense subject matter, 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. In 2014, he was included in Time magazine's annual Time 100 list of the "most influential people in the world".
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. In 1999, McQueen was awarded the Turner Prize for the "range" and "emotional intensity" of his art.
He made his feature-length directorial 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).Steve McQueen (director), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.