Sir Steven Rodney McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is a British filmmaker 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".