12 Years a Slave

The academy award ceremony was a long-awaited event in the sphere of cinema and movies. It is the most prestigious award any one from the industry can receive. There are various nominations in which actors, directors, cinematographers and many more can compete, but one nomination which deserves special attention would be for Best Motion Picture.
The nominated movies this year were American Hustle, Captain Philips, Dallas Buyers Club, Gravity, Her, Nebraska, Philomena and The Wolf of Wall Street. All great movies and all deserve attention for being already in the nomination, but there was another movie not mentioned above which actually won the nomination for Best Motion Picture - 12 Years a Slave.

It is about the years of slavery in the United States, where a free-born African American gets abducted and then sold to slavery. The story of the movie generated huge revenue for the last couple of months almost 150 million dollars and elevated the profits.

It was controversial whether a movie about the brutality of slavery would attract audience from oversea countries, it actually became very successful in many of them. It became very popular in UK, Italy, France and also in many Asian countries. It was a controversial fact why it was promoted with posters featuring white people like Brad Pitt who had a minor role in the movie or Michael Fassbender who not as famous as the star of the movie Chiwetel Ejiofor.

In addition to Best Motion Picture it actually received another Academy Award and it was for Best Adapted Screenplay. With those two awards it definitely prove itself as one of the best movies for 2013.

Here is a trailer to the movie:

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