FILM DIRECTOR

Steve McQueen

1969 - Today

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Sir Steve Rodney McQueen (born 9 October 1969) is a British film director, film producer, screenwriter, and video artist. Known for directing films that deal with intense subject matters, he has received several awards including an Academy Award, two BAFTA Awards and a Golden Globe Award. He was honoured with the BFI Fellowship in 2016 and was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2020 for services to art and film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steve McQueen has received more than 27,138,841 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Steve McQueen is the 1,309th most popular film director (down from 952nd in 2019), the 4,463rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,335th in 2019) and the 97th most popular British Film Director.

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  • 27M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.37

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Steve McQueen ranks 1,309 out of 2,041Before him are David Frankel, Anders Thomas Jensen, Milcho Manchevski, Max Hardcore, Vladimir Motyl, and Oumarou Ganda. After him are Charles Reisner, Tosca Musk, Melville Shavelson, Yuli Raizman, Peter Berg, and Catherine Corsini.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1969, Steve McQueen ranks 306Before him are Shinichi Mochizuki, Kostya Tszyu, Zoran Primorac, Fran, Kazushi Sakuraba, and Tony Cetinski. After him are David Mitchell, Bahman Ghobadi, Maher Al-Mu'aiqly, Myles Kennedy, Oriol Junqueras, and Vitaliy Parakhnevych.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Steve McQueen ranks 4,463 out of 8,785Before him are Frederick Rolfe (1860), Jesse Lingard (1992), Alice Eve (1982), Martin Wolf (1946), George Coulouris (1903), and John Dill (1881). After him are Pauline Baynes (1922), David Mitchell (1969), Alan Ayckbourn (1939), Howard Jones (1955), Simon Schama (1945), and George Galloway (1954).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Steve McQueen ranks 97Before him are Simon West (1961), Terry George (1952), Jon Amiel (1948), Tom Hooper (1972), Richard Eyre (1943), and Peter Hall (1930). After him are Jonathan Lynn (1943), Sam Taylor-Johnson (1967), Michael Caton-Jones (1957), Mike Hodges (1932), A. Edward Sutherland (1895), and Geoffrey Unsworth (1914).