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| Born | March 24, 1930 |
| Hometown | Beech Grove, Indiana, United States |
| Net worth | $30 million |
| Height | 5'10" (1.77m) |
| Spouse | Barbara Minty (m 1980 - 1980) , Ali MacGraw (m 1973 - 1978) , Neile Adams (m 1956 - 1972) |
| Children | Chad McQueen |
| Parents | Julia Crawford , William McQueen |
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Column: It's hard to watch a 4-hour documentary on Nazi-occupied Amsterdam. That's the point
- With 'Occupied City,' filmmaker Steve McQueen adapts his wife's house-by-house, street-by-street guide to the city's history under German occupation.
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'Small Axe': 'THR Presents' Q&A With Steve McQueen, Helen Bart, Helen Scott and Jacqueline Durran
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AWARDS
| Year | Associations | Category | Work | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | Golden Globe | Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama | Papillon (1973 film) | Nominated |
| 1970 | Golden Globe | Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy | The Reivers (film) | Nominated |
| 1967 | Golden Globe | Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama | The Sand Pebbles (film) | Nominated |
| 1967 | Academy Award | Actor | The Sand Pebbles (film) | Nominated |
| 1964 | Golden Globe | Best Performance By an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama | Love with the Proper Stranger | Nominated |
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- EntertainmentAssociated Press
In Steve McQueen's 4-hour Cannes entry 'Occupied City,' Holocaust past meets Amsterdam present
In Steve McQueen's “Occupied City,” a young woman with an even voice narrates, with rigorous specificity, Nazi encounters and crimes throughout Amsterdam during World War II. The accounts go address by address, and so does McQueen's camera. In the roving, 4 hour-plus documentary made by McQueen, the “12 Years a Slave” director, with his partner, the Dutch documentarian and author Bianca Stigter, past and present are fused — or at least provocatively juxtaposed. “It’s almost like once upon a ti
- EntertainmentVariety
‘Occupied City’ Review: Steve McQueen’s Holocaust Documentary Is a Trial to Sit Through: Four Hours Long But Only an Inch Deep
In "Occupied City," you don’t feel history evolving. You feel it withering, becoming smaller and more abstract, almost bureaucratic in its detachment, until it feels as if the life had been drained out of it.
- EntertainmentThe Telegraph
Cannes 2023: Occupied City is Steve McQueen’s hypnotic study of an Amsterdam still haunted by Nazis
The city of Amsterdam is the subject of this immense new wartime documentary from Britain’s Steve McQueen, and we find it occupied in two different ways. The first is in the military sense: in May 1940, the German army seized control of its streets, corralled its Jewish residents into restricted areas, robbed them of their jobs and belongings, and later deported them by train to the death camps.
- U.S.The Wrap
‘Occupied City’ Review: Steve McQueen’s Epic Holocaust Documentary Is a Disquieting Cinematic Essay
Cannes 2023: With a four-hour runtime, the filmmaker excavates Amsterdam's harrowing WWII history via a journey through its present
- EntertainmentIndiewire
‘Occupied City’ Review: Amsterdam Plays Itself in Steve McQueen’s Rich but Stultifying Four-Hour Documentary
Cannes: Steve McQueen layers an oral history of Nazi-occupied Amsterdam over footage from the city's COVID lockdown in a patience-testing documentary that may have worked better as an installation piece.
- EntertainmentDeadline
‘Occupied City’ Review: Steve McQueen’s Cannes Documentary On Nazi Occupation Of Amsterdam Takes Its Place Among Great WWII-Themed Films
In cinematic form, how do you tell history without archive footage? Occupied City shows how it can be done, and to what effect. Steve McQueen’s audacious documentary, which premiered at Cannes on Wednesday in the festival’s Special Screenings section, undertakes a portrait of Amsterdam during the Dutch city’s occupation by the Nazis from 1940-45. But […]
- EntertainmentVariety
Steve McQueen on His 4-Hour Documentary Epic ‘Occupied City’ and How It’s Informing His Apple TV+ Movie ‘Blitz’
Steve McQueen looks stressed out. He’s a few weeks into post-production on “Blitz,” his World War II drama for Apple TV+, while starting promotion on his other, long-gestating wartime project, the documentary “Occupied City.” “It’s definitely pleasurable, but this is work,” declares McQueen with the wariness of a filmmaker who’s just been plucked out of […]
- EntertainmentIndiewire
Steve McQueen Justifies His 4.5-Hour Documentary on the History of Nazi-Occupied Amsterdam
Cannes: “It wasn’t a case of wanting to do something long,” McQueen said. “It was a case of wanting to do something right.”
- EntertainmentDeadline
Steve McQueen’s Gripping Cannes Documentary ‘Occupied City’ Connects Today’s Amsterdam With Era Of Nazi Occupation
Amsterdam today. Pause on a bridge and watch the Amstel River gently flow through picturesque canals. Eighty years ago, the same vista might have revealed a horror – bodies floating by of Jews who had flung themselves into the Amstel rather than face cruel death from the occupying Nazi forces. A park bench in the […]
- CelebrityCloser Weekly
Steve McQueen ‘Lived on the Street’ Before Becoming a Movie Star: Inside His Childhood
In 1972, police in Anchorage, Alaska, arrested Steve McQueen for speeding and doing doughnuts in a rented Oldsmobile Toronado. “He really raised hell for quite a while,” said witness Lynn Burlingame. “When they did finally get him stopped, they administered a field sobriety test and he somersaulted down the white line.” His mug shot shows...
