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Geoffrey Shawn Fletcher (born October 4, 1970) is an American screenwriter and film director. Fletcher is best known for being the screenwriter of Precious, for which he received the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, becoming the first African American to receive an Academy Award for writing. [1]
Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher (1923–2004) was a British artist and art critic, and is best known for his 1962 book The London Nobody Knows .
Geoffrey Fletcher. Writer: Precious. Initially working with a video camera and cast of toys and action figures, Geoffrey Fletcher began making films as a child. Those films in part led to his acceptance to NYU's Tisch Graduate Film Program, which he attended after his graduation from Harvard University.
A graduate of Harvard University and NYU’s Tisch Graduate Film Program, Geoffrey Fletcher is the first African American to win an Academy Award® in the category of writing, directing or producing a feature film for his screenplay, Precious: Based on the Novel "Push" by Sapphire.
He lived in London and retired to Bolton, Lancs. In 2005 a posthumous exhibition 'Geoffrey Fletcher's City Sights' was organised by the Guildhall Art Gallery
Geoffrey Fletcher is an American screenwriter, film director, and adjunct film professor at Columbia University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, New York.
Geoffrey Scowcroft Fletcher (1923–2004) Gallery Oldham. Draughtsman in pen, ink and wash, painter in oils, illustrator and writer, born in Bolton, Lancashire, to which he finally returned. After studying at the Bolton School of Art, in 1945 Fletcher attended the Slade School of Fine Art under Randolph Schwabe.
