Geoffrey Fletcher
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Geoffrey Fletcher

Geoffrey S. Fletcher
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Geoffrey Fletcher is a screenwriter and film director. He wrote the screenplay for the film "Precious", for which he received an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is the first African American to receive the award for writing.[1]

Geoffrey was born in 1970 in Connecticut, the youngest of three sons of Alphonse Fletcher Sr. and his wife Bettye.[2] His father worked at Electric Boat in Groton, and his mother was a teacher and later principal and school administrator.[3] Geoffrey earned his undergraduate degree from Harvard University and a graduate degree from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts where he was a peer of Spike Lee.[4]

Geoffrey spent years working on scripts at night and working temporary jobs during the day before his big career breakthrough in 2006, when he was asked by director Lee Daniels to adapt the book "Precious" for the big screen.[5] His screenplay won numerous awards in 2010 including the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.[6]

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  1. ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoffrey_S._Fletcher
  2. ↑ Hartford Courant, Hartford, Connectictut, 7 May 2005, Sat, p. B01 Free View of Article
  3. ↑ Connecticut College News, Press Release, 25 Apr 2005, (for brother Buddy Fletcher) https://web.archive.org/web/20110716165749/http://aspen.conncoll.edu/news/1580.cfm
  4. ↑ Transcript of the live blog: Geoffrey Fletcher wins his Oscar for "Precious"
  5. ↑ "The Prizefighter", NYI Alumni Magazine, Issue #15, Fall 2010, by Jason Hollander Online copy
  6. ↑ https://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/2010

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