Racking Up Oscar Buzz! Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong’o, Brad Pitt, Carmelo & La La Anthony at the “12 Years a Slave” TIFF Premiere

Chiwetel Ejiofor

Just before he graces the red carpet on Sunday for Half of a Yellow Sun, Nigerian-Hollywood actor Chiwetel Ejiofor was at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival to promote Steve McQueen‘s 12 Years a Slave.

Chiwetel who plays the lead, stars alongside Lupita Nyong’o, Brad Pitt, Sarah Paulson, Michael Fassbender and Alfre Woodard.

The movie is based on a book which tells the fact-based story of a 19th-century freeman kidnapped and sold into slavery in the Deep South.

Brad Pitt

Sarah Paulson

Michael Fassbender

Adepero Oduye

Alfre Woodard

Lupita Nyong’o

Carmelo & La La Anthony

Alfre Woodard, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Lupita Nyong’o, Steve McQueen & Sarah Paulson at the Press Conference

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