The slavery drama “12 Years a Slave” won the Academy Award for
best picture on Sunday, making history as the first movie from a black director
to win the film industry’s highest honor in 86 years of the Oscars.
British director Steve
McQueen’s unflinching portrayal of pre-Civil War American slavery also won two
other Oscars, including best supporting actress for newcomer Lupita Nyong’o and
best adapted screenplay based on the memoir of Solomon Northup, a free man sold
into slavery in Louisiana. “Everyone deserves not just to survive but to live,
this is the most important legacy of Solomon Northup,” said McQueen in his
acceptance speech.
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