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Steve McQueen, wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiles while holding the Camera D'Or award in its open case at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Hunger

film by McQueen [2008]
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Steve McQueen, wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiles while holding the Camera D'Or award in its open case at the Cannes Film Festival.
Steve McQueen British director Steve McQueen holding the Caméra d'Or award he won in 2008 at the 61st Annual International Festival de Cannes, France, for Hunger, his first feature film.

The film Hunger (2008), directed by Steve McQueen, focuses on the final days of Bobby Sands. Sands was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) officer who died during a hunger strike in HM Prison Maze in 1981. The film uses long takes and claustrophobic camera angles to depict Sands's experience. The hunger strike was a protest against the British government's policy of "criminalization," which removed political status from republican prisoners. Sands, elected as a Member of Parliament while on hunger strike, died after 66 days, sparking international attention and protests.12

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