English filmmaker Steve McQueen was BOTD in 1969. Born in London to Grenadian and Trinidadian parents, he studied art at Goldsmiths College and the Tisch School of the Arts in New York City. He began making experimental short films in the 1990s, including Bear, in which a naked McQueen and another man exchange a serious of flirtatious glances and eventually wrestle. In 1999, he won the Turner Prize for a video based on a Buster Keaton film, beating the more heavily-profiled Tracey Emin. In 2006, he went to Iraq as an official war artist, producing Queen and Country, a series of postage stamps featuring dead soldiers. He rose to international attention with his debut feature film Hunger, an experimental biopic of Irish political prisoner Bobby Sands, and Shame, a harrowing story about a sex addict, both starring the frequently naked Michael Fassbender. McQueen’s 2013 film 12 Years a Slave, an adaptation of Solomon Northup’s memoir, was internationally acclaimed, winning three Oscars including Best Picture. His recent works include female heist drama Widows, the TV anthology drama series Small Ax, set in London’s West Indian diaspora, and the World War Two drama Blitz. He is married to Bianca Stigter and has two children. Though straight, McQueen’s work represents a queering of masculine identity that earns him Honorary SuperGay status.