British artist Steve McQueen has won another prize for his film Hunger, about IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands.
The film which won the Camera d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival in May, has picked up the Gucci Group Award at the Venice Film Festival. The prize honours those who usually specialise in fields outside of the film industry who have turned to film making.
Accepting his award, McQueen said, "We're living in a time and age where it is all about putting our cards on the table and going for it,"
Hunger, which focusses on Bobby Sands' final days in prison, stars Michael Fassbender, who's since appeared in horror flick Eden Lake and will be seen in Quentin Tarantino's WWII film Inglorious Bastards. He had to go on a medically-supervised diet to play Sands who McQueen remembers from watching the news on TV when he was a child.
To win the gong McQueen beat; British photographer Isaac Julien, who made the Tilda Swinton-penned Derek Jarman-based film Derek, Beastie Boys rapper Adam Yauch's high school basketball documentary and, last year's winner, artist Julian Schnabel who directed Berlin - based on Lou Reed's concept album.