That is reality: Oscar-winning American Fiction screenwriter Twine Jefferson will obtain the WGA West‘s 2024 Paul Selvin Award subsequent month. The primary-time characteristic scribe will probably be feted throughout the West Coast ceremony for strike-delayed 77th Writers Guild Awards on April 14 on the Hollywood Palladium.
He is also up for the Tailored Screenplay prize on the WGA Awards, having written his script based mostly on Percival Everett’s novel Erasure.
Jefferson additionally directed American Fiction, which stars Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a annoyed novelist fed up with the literary institution’s continuous ignorance and blind promotion of what they take into account “Black” leisure. He writes an outlandish “Black” e book of his personal below a pen title, a e book that propels him to the guts of hypocrisy and the insanity he claims to disdain.
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Together with the accolades for Jefferson’s first big-screen script, American Fiction scored a Greatest Image Oscar nom and dozens of awards or nominations from critics teams, movie festivals and Hollywood guilds.
Jefferson started his writing profession as a journalist in 2009 earlier than turning into a tv author in 2014, when he joined the writing workers for Season 1 of Survivor’s Regret, which he adopted with the complete two-year run of The Nightly Present with Larry Wilmore. After writing for The Good Place and Grasp of None – each of which noticed him nominated for Writers Guild Awards, he went on to win two Writers Guild Awards in 2020 for his work on Succession and Watchmen and wrote for the restricted collection Station Eleven.
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Named for the late Paul Selvin, normal counsel to WGAW for 25 years, the honorary award is given every year to the member or members whose script greatest embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties which can be indispensable to the survival of free writers in all places, per the guild.
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