Sir Steve Rodney McQueen is a British film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. He is known for his award-winning film
12 Years a Slave (2013), an adaptation of Solomon Northup's 1853 slave narrative memoir. He also directed and co-wrote
Hunger (2008), a historical drama about the 1981 Irish hunger strike,
Shame (2011), a drama about an executive struggling with sex addiction, and
Widows (2018), an adaptation of the British television series of the same name set in contemporary Chicago. In 2020, he released
Small Axe, a collection of five films "set within London's West Indian community from the late 1960s to the early '80s".