12 Years a Slave
2013
Academy Award for Best Picture — 86th Academy AwardsThe 21st Century's 100 Greatest Films — No. 44
- Director:
- Steve McQueen
- Studio:
- Regency Enterprises, River Road Entertainment, Plan B Entertainment, Film4
- Starring:
- Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Benedict Cumberbatch, Paul Dano, Paul Giamatti
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Solomon Northup is a free African-American man in 1841, working as a violinist and living with his wife and two children in Saratoga Springs, New York. Two white men, Brown and Hamilton, offer him short-term employment as a musician in Washington, D.C.; instead, they drug him and deliver him to James H. Birch, the owner of a slave pen. Northup proclaims his freedom, only to be violently beaten and tortured.