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‘American Fiction’s Cord Jefferson Pleads With Hollywood To Give New Creatives A Shot While Accepting Adapted Screenplay Oscar
American Fiction won Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2024 Oscars ceremony
American Fiction ‘s Cord Jefferson is officially an Oscar winner — and he’s pleading with Hollywood studios to give more up and coming creatives a shot at their own golden statuette. While accepting the award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 96th Academy Awards, Jefferson used his speech to acknowledge how many people had passed on his film about a frustrated novelist who struggles to reconcile with the establishments that profit off of Black entertainment relying on offensive tropes to do so. Jefferson explained he just felt “so much joy” being on stage accepting the award, just as he did while making American Fiction.
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