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12 Years A Slave gets the one Golden Globe that counts

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Director Steve McQueen accepts the Golden Globe Award for  "12 Years A Slave." Chiwetel Ejiofor (Center)looks on with the cast and crew as the film is awards the Golden Globe Award for Best Dramatic Film of the Year. buzzz worthy. . . By Mona Austin Last Sunday night at the Golden Globe Awards, Johny Depp presented the Best Picture Award for"12 Years A Slave" to its Director Steve McQueen, making him  the first black director to bag the prestigious  honor from the Hollywood Foreign Press. Based on the novel about the life of a free man, Solomon Northrup, who was sold into slavery in 1841, going into the show "12 Years A Slave" was the most nominated film. It's leading man, Chiwetel Ejiofor was looked over as the Best Male Actor trophy went to Matthew McConnaughey and at that moment in the show it looked like they would walk away with nothing. Dramatically, the stellar movie (which was co-produced by Brad Pitt) got Best Picture when the la...