\\\'12 Years a Slave\\\' wins best picture Oscar
Monday, 3 March 2014
The slavery drama "12 Years a Slave" won the best picture Oscar on Sunday night (Bangladesh time), becoming the first film from a black director to win the film industry’s top honour in the 86 years of the Academy Awards. The film from British director Steve McQueen is based on the memoirs of a free black man, Solomon Northup, who is tricked and sold into bondage in Louisiana, USA, in an unflinching account of pre-Civil War slavery in America. The harrowing slavery drama went into Sunday’s Academy Awards with nine nominations, including best picture, director, actor and supporting nods. Earlier, “12 Years a Slave” swept the Independent Spirit Awards with five wins, just one day ahead of the Oscar ceremony. On Saturday it won five of its seven nominations at the awards show for independent movies made on small budgets, including the top award for best feature, according to bdnews24.com.