Thanks very much Vaska.

Thanks very much Vaska.

WIN: The Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures: (Producers): Anthony Katagas, Jeremy Kleiner, Steve McQueen, Brad Pitt & Dede Gardner for Twelve Years a Slave. Tie to win with Gravity.

WIN: Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role: Lupita Nyong’o.

NOMINATION: Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture: 12 Years a Slave.
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role: Chiwetel Ejiofor.
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role: Michael Fassbender.

Thanks Pittfary.

Thank you Pittfary.

On October 18, viewers will finally get to see Steve McQueen’s movie adaptation of the stunning memoir 12 Years a Slave, written in the 1850s by Solomon Northup. With a cast including Benedict Cumberbatch, Brad Pitt, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti, Quvenzhané Wallis from “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” Sarah Paulson of “Mud,” and Chiwetel Ejiofor as Northrup, expectations for McQueen’s film are through the roof. Today, we get another peek at the epic tale with the release of the television trailer.

McQueen’s previous film, the titillating “Shame” starring Michael Fassbender as a sex-addicted thirty-something, spared nothing in its approach to a loaded topic. Our expectation is that McQueen will employ the same raw energy and direction to “12 Years.”

Northrup’s memoir recounts the years following his enslavement. Northrup was born a free man – but on one fateful day, he is kidnapped, drugged, and sold into slavery in Louisiana. What follows is a decade-plus of his quiet wish to find the freedom that was once his. And when that wish comes true, Northrup takes his case to the courts.

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