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Upon its release, was immediately recognized as an achievement of the highest order. At the 86th Academy Awards, it won three Oscars: Best Picture, Best Supporting Actress for Nyong’o, and Best Adapted Screenplay for John Ridley. It was the first Best Picture winner directed by a Black filmmaker (Steve McQueen) and produced by a Black producer (Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment, alongside Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner).

This is where 12 Years a Slave differs from a film like Schindler’s List . There is no heroic factory owner here. There is only survival. And the film insists that survival is not a victory; it is a raw, bleeding wound. 12 years a slave -film-