Initially receiving acclaim as a visual artist and winning the Turner Prize in 1999, Sir Steve McQueen went on to direct his first feature "Hunger" (2008), which earned him the Caméra d'Or at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival. A more recent film, "12 Years a Slave" (2013), won several major international awards, and McQueen is the first black filmmaker to win an Academy Award for Best Picture.