Sean Bobbitt on 12 Years a Slave: 'The camera does not look away'
The 2013 biographical drama is a landmark feature film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Directed by Steve McQueen and starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, the film is an unflinching adaptation of the 1853 memoir by Solomon Northup , a free Black man who was kidnapped and sold into slavery in the antebellum South. Production Highlights 12 Years a Slave