Academy Award-Winning and Emmy Award-Winning Writer and Director
Cord Jefferson: Biography at a Glance
- Cord Jefferson is an Academy Award and Emmy Award-winning writer and director celebrated for his groundbreaking storytelling in both film and television, blending depth with versatility across genres.
- Jefferson made an impressive directorial debut with American Fiction, which won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and received five Oscar nominations, including Best Picture in 2024. The film also won the People’s Choice Award at TIFF and achieved an astounding 54 wins and 147 nominations worldwide.
- For his American Fiction screenplay, adapted from Percival Everett’s Erasure, Jefferson earned numerous prestigious awards, including the Critics Choice, BAFTA, and Film Independent Spirit Awards, further showcasing his exceptional narrative skill.
- Jefferson’s work on celebrated TV series like Watchmen, The Good Place, and Succession has earned him numerous accolades, including an Emmy Award, two Writers Guild Awards, and an NAACP Image Award, solidifying his reputation as one of the industry’s top storytellers.
- Jefferson will next adapt and executive produce Just Cause for Amazon Prime, collaborating with John Wells and starring Scarlett Johansson, marking his expansion into major television productions.
- Before his television career, Jefferson was a prominent journalist, having written for outlets like The New York Times, National Geographic, and NPR, bringing a unique journalistic perspective to his storytelling.
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Cord Jefferson is an Academy Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning writer and director who has worked on some of the most complex and popular series of the past decade and has earned praise for being one of the most multifaceted and versatile storytellers.
Jefferson made his feature writing and directorial debut with American Fiction which won an Academy Award in the category of ‘Best Adapted Screenplay’ and garnered 5 total Academy Award nominations, including ‘Best Picture’ in 2024. Jefferson also won a Critics Choice Award, BAFTA Award, and Film Independent Spirit Award for his screenplay, an adaptation of Percival Everett’s Erasure. He was also nominated for “Outstanding Directorial Achievement in a First-Time Theatrical Feature Film” at the DGA Awards, and the “Darryl F. Zanuck Award for Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures” at the PGA Awards.
The film took home 54 wins and received 147 nominations, and 8 honors after its world debut at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival where it received critical acclaim and won the festival’s top prize, the People’s Choice Award.
It has been announced that Jefferson will write and executive produce Amazon Prime Video’s limited series adaption of John Katzenbach’s novel Just Cause alongside acclaimed writer John Wells, starring Scarlett Johansson in her first major television role.
Jefferson’s recent credits are a powerhouse of critically acclaimed television series that includes the groundbreaking limited series Watchmen, for which he won an Emmy award for Outstanding Writing For A Limited Series alongside Damon Lindelof, for their episode This Extraordinary Being. Other credits include the philosophical comedy The Good Place, and the drama series tour-de-force Succession. Among the accolades that Jefferson has earned for his work on these series are two Writers Guild Awards and an NAACP Image Award for writing The Good Place’s Tinker, Tailor, Demon, Spy episode. Jefferson was also the winner of the AFI and has been nominated for the DGA, PGA, and SAG awards.
Jefferson’s other credits include the HBO Max series Station Eleven; Netflix’s Master of None, where he wrote the episode “New York, I Love You”; Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore; and the Starz comedy series Survivor’s Remorse.
Prior to making his way into television, Jefferson was a journalist, most notably serving as the West Coast editor for Gawker. During his tenure in journalism, Jefferson also wrote for such outlets as The New York Times, National Geographic, NPR, USA Today, MSNBC, Bookforum, and The Daily Beast, among others.
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