Cord Jefferson Wins Oscar For Best Adapted Screen Play For ‘American Fiction’

Cord Jefferson is now an Oscar winner but wants others to join him in the winner’s circle. The filmmaker won Best Adapted Screenplay for 2023’s “American Fiction,” which stars Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Jeffrey Wright, Erika Alexander, and Sterling K. Brown.  Jefferson, a former staff writer for The Root, saw his commitment to writing Black content culminate with the ultimate award Sunday night. , as he accepted an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for his 2023 film “American Fiction.” The Tucson, Ariz. native started his journalism career following his graduation from College of William & Mary in Virginia. He wrote for several publications and had his run with The Root around the beginning of the 2010s. He sat down to speak with us about “American Fiction” last December along with Brown, Ellis Ross and Alexander. In his television and film writing career, Jefferson has touched a lot of material we enjoy, including the Starz show “Survivor’s Remorse,” “The Nightly Show With Larry Wilmore” and Aziz Ansari’s beloved Netflix show “Master of None.” He received the Writers Guild of America nominations ‘The Good Place,” but his first writing award came from his work on HBO’s righteously-Black 2019 adaptation of “Watchmen.”