Cord Jefferson to Receive Special WGA Award for American Fiction

March 26, 2024 @ 10:31 AM

Cord Jefferson will certainly receive the Writers Guild of America West’s 2024 Paul Selvin Award for his “American Fiction” movie script, which he adjusted from Percival Everett’s unique “Erasure.”

He will certainly be recognized at the 2024 Writers Guild Honors on Sunday, April 14, at the Hollywood Palladium (This year’s event is occurring after the Oscars, properly completion of film “awards season,” as a result of the WGA strike in 2023).

Jefferson’s movie script has actually currently won him an Academy Award for Finest Adjusted Movie script and lots of various other honors. It is additionally chosen for an adjusted movie script WGA award.

The writer-director made his launching with “American Fiction” after functioning as a reporter and an author on television collection consisting of “Succession,” “The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore” and “Watchmen,” which made him an Emmy. He additionally won WGA honors for “Succession” and “Watchmen.”

Additionally to the Oscar, “American Fiction” additionally won the NAACP Photo Award for Impressive Creating in a Movie, the Movie Critics Selection Award for Finest Adjusted Movie script, a number of Black Reel Honors, consisting of Impressive Movie script, and Independent Spirit Honors for Finest Movie Script and Finest Lead Efficiency for Geoffrey Wright.

The Selvin Award is called after Paul Selvin, that was basic advise to WGAW for 25 years. Yearly, the honor is provided to the “member or members whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere,” according to a WGAW declaration. Barry Jenkins, Adam McKay, Dustin Lance Black, Alex Gibney, Susannah Give, Eric Roth, Michael Mann, George Clooney and Tony Kushner are amongst previous receivers of the Selvin Award.