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And the Academy Award Goes To...

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Paul Gambaccini traces the history of the Oscars and tells the story behind winning films

Paul Gambaccini traces the history of the Oscars and tells the story behind award-winning films

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And The Academy Award Goes To ...: Series 7

And the Academy Award Goes To...: Series 7: 12 Years a Slave

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25/02/2017

12 Years a Slave

Series 7

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It takes an English director to tackle one the most horrific chapters in US history.

Paul Gambaccini on 12 Years A Slave, the unflinchingly brutal film about American slavery which produced the first ever black director to win a Best Picture Oscar.

Why does it take an Englishman to tackle one of the most horrific chapters in the history of the United States? Described as stark, visceral and unrelenting, "12 Years A Slave" has been hailed as "brilliant - and quite possibly essential - cinema". and it became the first film with a black director (and producer) to win the Best Picture Oscar 

Paul Gambaccini talks to key personnel behind the flim and hears from its stars (both behind and in front of the camera) to find out how the film was made, including editor Joe Walker, production designers Adam Stockhausen, stars Kelsey Scott and Chiwetel Ejiofor and director Steve McQueen. And with the help of critics David Thompson, Toby Miller and Larushka Ivan-Zadeh explores what it's success at the 2014 Oscars tells us about the concerns of society an d of the Academy which in the two years that followed failed to nominate a black person for its top awards.

Producer: Paul Kobrak.

And the Academy Award Goes To...: Series 7

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Paul Gambaccini tells the story behind three more award-winning films

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