Geoffrey Fletcher is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter and director. He won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE, directed by Lee Daniels and presented by executive producers Oprah Winfrey and Tyler Perry. He is the first African American to win an Academy Award for screenwriting.

For PRECIOUS he also received the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay, the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Writing in a Motion Picture, the Black Reel Award, and adapted screenplay honors from the Satellite Awards, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists, and several critics’ associations. Variety named him one of its Ten Screenwriters to Watch.

Fletcher wrote TRIAL BY FIRE, the death penalty drama directed by Ed Zwick and starring Laura Dern and Jack O’Connell. His feature directorial debut, VIOLET & DAISY, which he wrote and directed, starred Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, and James Gandolfini, and received the Cinevation Award for imagination, inspiration and innovation in cinema.

He began making films as a child with a video camera and a cast of action figures. A graduate of Harvard University, he earned his MFA in film directing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and apprenticed under Martin Scorsese and Spike Lee. His student short MAGIC MARKERS was recognized by the Directors Guild of America and screened at the Sundance Film Festival. He has taught as an adjunct professor of film at Columbia University and NYU.

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