Steve McQueen To Receive Outstanding Director Award At Camerimage
deadline.comBritish filmmaker Steve McQueen will be feted at this year’s Camerimage Film Festival with the Outstanding Director Award for career achievement.
The announcement was made this morning by the Polish festival. “Steve McQueen is an artist known for his uncompromising engagement in tackling difficult social and political issues,” Marek Żydowicz, Camerimage Festival Director, said this morning. “His vivid filmmaking style explores the problems of racism, violence, addiction, and inequality, constantly moving and provoking discussion, which situates him as one of the most important contemporary film creators.
We couldn’t imagine a better laureate for the Special Award for Outstanding Director than Steve McQueen.” McQueen is a Turner Prize and Oscar-winning filmmaker.
His feature film debut was 2008’s Hunger, starring Michael Fassbender as a starving IRA hunger striker. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Camera D’Or.
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