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‘American Fiction’ Oscar Winner Cord Jefferson Set For WGA West’s 2024 Paul Selvin Award

Oscar-winning 'American Fiction' screenwriter Cord Jefferson will receive the WGA West's Paul Selvin Award at the Writers Guild Awards on April 14 in Hollywood.

This is fact: Oscar-winning American Fiction screenwriter Cord Jefferson will receive the WGA West ‘s 2024 Paul Selvin Award next month. Jefferson also directed American Fiction, which stars Jeffrey Wright as Thelonious “Monk” Ellison, a frustrated novelist fed up with the literary establishment’s continual ignorance and blind promotion of what they consider “Black” entertainment. Along with the accolades for Jefferson’s first big-screen script, American Fiction scored a Best Picture Oscar nom and dozens of awards or nominations from critics groups, film festivals and Hollywood guilds.

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