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McQueen wins Turner Prize
 Steve McQueen: Winner of Britain's most controversial art prize |
Film-maker Steve McQueen has won Britain's best-known art award, the Turner Prize, beating provocative front-runner Tracey Emin.
The 30-year-old artist, whose latest exhibition includes footage of a tape recorder drifting off beneath a balloon and a house collapsing, was the second favourite to take the �20,000 prize.
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Accepting his award, Mr McQueen made a very brief speech, saying: "I would like to thank my family and friends who are here tonight ... that's it really."
The film-maker who now lives and works in Amsterdam and Berlin, and the other nominees, were largely overshadowed in the countdown to the prize by the notoriety of Emin's work.
For her Turner exhibition at the Tate she displayed a stained, unmade bed surrounded by empty bottles and other detritus left after a week of being bedridden.
The prize jury awarded him the award tonight for the "poetry and clarity of his vision, the range of his work, its emotional intensity and economy of means".
The jury, chaired by Tate director Sir Nicholas Serota, was also excited by his continuing intellectual and technical evolution.
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Eventually as the film progresses it becomes clear that it is being dragged into the air beneath a balloon and eventually disappears.
In another, Deadpan, he is seen recreating a Buster Keaton silent movie stunt in which a building front collapses, falling around him.
He is seen from various angles escaping unscathed, standing where the window frame falls.
McQueen was presented with the prize by architect Zaha Hadid. Channel 4, which has sponsored the award since 1991, also announced that it will continue its support for three more years.
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