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12 Years a Slave is a 2013 biographical drama film directed by Steve McQueen from a screenplay by John Ridley, based on the 1853 slave memoir Twelve Years a Slave by Solomon Northup, an African American man who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. by two conmen in 1841 and sold into slavery. He was put to work on plantations in the state of ...
Twelve Years a Slave is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., where he was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South. He was in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana ...
12 Years a Slave is a 2013 historical drama film directed and produced by Steve McQueen.It is an adaptation of the 1853 autobiographical slave narrative memoir of the same name by Solomon Northup, a New York-born free negro who was kidnapped in Washington, D.C. in 1841 and sold into slavery.
Music from and Inspired by 12 Years a Slave is the soundtrack album to 12 Years a Slave.It contains two tracks from the film score composed by Hans Zimmer, three tracks co-arranged by violinist Tim Fain and Nicholas Britell, [5] and original spiritual songs written and arranged for the film by Nicholas Britell, [6] as well as performances by Alabama Shakes, Cody ChesnuTT, Gary Clark Jr ...
The Library of Congress announced the 25 features joining the National Film Registry for 2023, with titles including “12 Years a Slave,” “Home Alone,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas ...
For 12 Years a Slave, he won the Academy Award for Best Picture, [9] the BAFTA Award for Best Film, and the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama. [10] McQueen is the first black filmmaker to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. [11] He is also the first person to win both an Academy Award and the Turner Prize. [12]
Known for. Writing Twelve Years a Slave. Signature. Solomon Northup (born July 10, c. 1807–1808; died c. 1864) was an American abolitionist and the primary author of the memoir Twelve Years a Slave. A free-born African American from New York, he was the son of a freed slave and a free woman of color. A farmer and a professional violinist ...
Emancipation is a 2022 American historical action thriller film [3] [4] [5] directed by Antoine Fuqua, written by William N. Collage, and co-produced by Will Smith, who stars as a runaway slave headed for Baton Rouge, Louisiana in the 1860s, after President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation to end slavery in secessionist Confederate states, [6] surviving the swamps while ...