Award-winning director, producer, and writer Steve McQueen, will be receiving the Vantage Award from The Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. The Academy Museum Gala will celebrate the acclaimed new museum’s one-year anniversary and will honor, alongside McQueen, Academy Museum Trustee and groundbreaking producer Miky Lee and Academy Award-winning actor Tilda Swinton. The ceremony will mark the Academy Museums second annual gala, which will be held on October 15, 2022.
The evening will be co-chaired by Academy Award-winning actor and Academy Museum supporter Halle Berry, Academy Museum Trustee and producer Jason Blum, Academy Museum Trustee and screenwriter, director, producer Ryan Murphy, and Academy Award-winning actor Lupita Nyong’o. The evening is presented by Rolex and will raise vital funds to support the museum’s access, education, and programming initiatives. Rolex is also the official watch partner and founding supporter of the Academy Museum.
The three awards presented annually at the Academy Museum Gala reflect the museum’s mission to advance the understanding, celebration, and preservation of cinema and to contextualize and challenge dominant narratives around cinema.
The gala’s Vantage Award honors an artist or scholar who has helped to contextualize and challenge dominant narratives around cinema, will be given to Steve McQueen.
Tilda Swinton will receive the Visionary Award, honoring an artist or scholar whose extensive body of work has advanced the art of cinema.
Miky Lee will receive the gala’s Pillar Award, which acknowledges exemplary leadership and support for the Academy Museum.
Bill Kramer, Director and President of the Academy Museum, said, “Our inaugural Gala in 2021 was a wonderful celebration of the artists and patrons of the Academy Museum. It was an incredible reminder of the power, artistry, diversity, and resilience of our film industry. At our 2022 Gala, we are deeply honored to recognize three members of our international film community whose outstanding achievements inspire us all: Miky Lee, Steve McQueen, and Tilda Swinton. We express our gratitude to Halle Berry, Jason Blum, Ryan Murphy, and Lupita Nyong’o for hosting this important evening and to Rolex for being a steadfast and engaged supporter of the Academy Museum Gala and global cinema.”
Steve McQueen is a Turner Prize and Academy Award-winning artist and filmmaker. In all of his work, McQueen is committed to telling deep and compelling truths that are often untold or overlooked.
In 2008, McQueen’s critically acclaimed first feature Hunger, a historical drama about the 1981 Irish hunger strike, won the Camera d ‘Or at the Cannes Film Festival. His second feature Shame, about the horrors of addiction, won two awards when it premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2011. His third film 12 Years A Slave (2013), an adaptation of Solomon Northup’s 1853 slave narrative memoir, received numerous prizes, most notably winning three Academy Awards including Best Picture. In 2018, he released Widows starring Viola Davis, who was nominated for a Best Actress BAFTA.
McQueen’s most recent project, Small Axe, is an anthology of five films which brings to life the experiences of London’s West Indian community. An unprecedented two of the films were selected for the 2020 Cannes Film Festival. As well as being nominated for a Golden Globe, the series of films won LA Film Critics Best Picture 2020. The anthology reflects the Black British experience from the late 1960s to the early 1980s.
McQueen is currently working on Occupied City, a new documentary that looks at Amsterdam under Nazi occupation during World War II.
The 2021 Academy Museum Gala raised more than $11MM for the museum’s film, educational, and access programming. Additional details about the 2022 Gala will be announced in the coming months.
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