Geoffrey Fletcher, the screenwriter of "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire," is the first African American screenwriter to take home an Academy Award.
The 39-year-old adjunct professor of film at Columbia University and NYU, surprised some by beating favorite Jason Reitman, writer/director of "Up in the Air."
It still surprises me that this was the first. But nonetheless, congrats, Geoffrey!
*Since, apparently absolute honesty is all the rage now, I did watch snippets and then the last chunk when I went to my local watering hole for karaoke night. Just so's nobody thinks I'm a big fat liar. Well, nobody else.
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