The West announced on Tuesday that writer-director has been named recipient of the 2024 Paul Selvin Award for the
Amazon MGM Studios film, for which he won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay earlier this month. Additionally, — based on the novel by Percival Everett — is also nominated for the WGA Award for best adapted screenplay. The
comedy, which stars Oscar nominee Jeffrey Wright as a frustrated novelist who writes a satirical book under a pen name that exposes the publishing industry’s limited view of Black life, has garnered numerous in addition to the Oscar including the People’s Choice Award at the
Toronto International Film Festival, a BAFTA award for best adapted screenplay and Film Independent Spirit Awards for best
Actor (Wright) and adapted screenplay. The film was also named as one of the year’s best by the
American Film Institute and earned an Oscar nom for best picture. Jefferson previously won two in 2020 for writing on the
HBO series and and also additionally earned WGA Award noms for comedies and Named for the late Paul Selvin, general counsel to WGAW for 25 years, the honorary award is given each year to the member or members whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties that are indispensable to the survival of free writers everywhere. Previous recipients of the Paul Selvin award include Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Barry Jenkins, Will Berson & Shaka King and Kenny Lucas & Keith Lucas, Charles Randolph, Adam McKay, Dustin Lance Black, Alex Gibney, Susannah Grant, Eric Roth, Michael Mann, Gary Ross, Liz Hannah, Josh
Singer, George Clooney and Tony Kushner. The WGA Awards will take place on April 14 at the
Hollywood Palladium in
Los Angeles. Read the full list of nominees . THR Newsletters Sign up for THR news straight to your inbox every day More from The Hollywood Reporter