Geoffrey Fletcher is first African American screenwriter to win an Oscar
New York:Geoffrey Fletcher, the screenwriter of 'Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire', has become the first African American screenwriter to take home an Academy Award. Fletcher, 39, an adjunct professor of film at Columbia
University and NYU, surprised some by beating favourite Jason Reitman, writer/director
of "Up in the Air". "I don't know what to say," the New York Daily News quoted
Fletcher as saying during his acceptance speech. This was the Connecticut-born
writer's first produced screenplay, for which he was also awarded an Independent
Spirit Award.
