Geoffrey Fletcher '92 (Screenwriter & Director, PRECIOUS)

By Cristina Slattery '97

"My name mean somethin’ valuable—Precious,” the protagonist of the novel, PUSH, by Sapphire, asserts. Geoffrey Fletcher ’92, winner of the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film PRECIOUS: Based on the Novel "Push” by Sapphire, and the first African American to win an Oscar for screenwriting, agrees. He says he fell in love with the character and likens her resilience to that of Odysseus and her self-awareness to that of Huck Finn.

"Who hasn’t felt underestimated or discarded?” Fletcher asks.