The Academy Awards finally handed cinema’s most prestigious prize to a movie by a black filmmaker, the British-born Steve McQueen, but the win had all the earmarks of a true squeaker.
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The movie industry is waiting to see if “12 Years a Slave,” a story focusing on an African-American, can garner a global audience.
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Solomon Northup told a story of escaping from slavery in 1853, and for decades scholars have been trying to untangle the truth of his account.
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