Cord Jefferson on "Diversity Within Diversity" in 'American Fiction' - Full Oscars Backstage Speech

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Winner of Best Adapted Screenplay, Cord Jefferson, speaks to directing his first feature film at the 2024 Oscars.
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  • @aliairving485
    @aliairving4852 ай бұрын

    “As broad and as deep as any other life” YESSSS

  • @gemelwalters2942
    @gemelwalters29422 ай бұрын

    Glad he's very blunt and I couldn't agree more about diversity. Hollywood ironically has shoehorned diversity into this one stereotype, in their attempt to depict diversity. At the same time black artists need to start telling diverse stories and that doesn't mean "black stories". A ridiculous characterization that I've come to dislike. How often do we see a sci fi film with a black lead. Thank goodness for the creator, we need more stories like that, which explore the wide spectrum of filmmaking and just happen to have a black character with a story.

  • @geoff3103

    @geoff3103

    2 ай бұрын

    I'll be more impressed when a 100% POC makes a movie like Titantic, ET, Oppenheimer, Jurassic Park, Chinatown, Avatar, etc.

  • @axr7149

    @axr7149

    2 ай бұрын

    Don't forget Christopher Nolan's TENET, which had John David Washington in the lead as well.

  • @AverysCinemaReview
    @AverysCinemaReview2 ай бұрын

    I can’t wait to see what Cord brings next, into the cinema space. American Fiction is so good- so intentionally layered, and refreshing. Based from the impactful book, ‘Erasure’, by Percival Everett. 💛🎬📕

  • @ninathecrab2571
    @ninathecrab25712 ай бұрын

    This is just so cool! So glad American Fiction made it to the Oscars and won!

  • @spoildchik1
    @spoildchik12 ай бұрын

    LOVE THIS!!!

  • @dinyahome
    @dinyahome2 ай бұрын

    🎉congratulations! A great movie, funny, relevant, smart!!!🎉

  • @kaykaymeowable
    @kaykaymeowable2 ай бұрын

    That's right!! PREACH!!

  • @zarinakreso6462
    @zarinakreso64622 ай бұрын

    Brilliant Cord!

  • @ORwu
    @ORwu2 ай бұрын

    Cord Jefferson has now won a Primetime Emmy for "Watchmen" & an Oscar for "American Fiction." He only needs Grammy and Tony Awards to complete EGOT Status.

  • @dheapsable
    @dheapsable2 ай бұрын

    Amen!

  • @lxXSuddenDeathXxl
    @lxXSuddenDeathXxl2 ай бұрын

    I love this guy. I hope to meet him one day.

  • @Blue-ub8ld
    @Blue-ub8ld2 ай бұрын

    Deserved

  • @there.is.no.name.here.
    @there.is.no.name.here.2 ай бұрын

    This guy is visionary.

  • @nicholarichards4803
    @nicholarichards48032 ай бұрын

    👏🏽

  • @franjohnson6140
    @franjohnson61402 ай бұрын

    Real Black Stories MATTER!

  • @Dimi374
    @Dimi374Ай бұрын

    This is exactly what we have been needing in the Community and America. I’m done with Tyler Perry and films that are driven by hip hop and gang culture. We are not a Monolithic community. Unfortunately even some Black Americans feel that we are and this needs to be eliminated so that we can embrace the different people within our community.❤

  • @HumanBeanbag
    @HumanBeanbag2 ай бұрын

    That means a lot coming from a guy that looks like he could be Rachel Dolezal's brother 😂

  • @TheBest-br2sc
    @TheBest-br2sc2 ай бұрын

    😈😈😈🦾

  • @Blufishii
    @Blufishii2 ай бұрын

    "Theres an audience for things that our different" TRANSLATION:Theres an audience for movies not centered around white people

  • @geoff3103

    @geoff3103

    2 ай бұрын

    great. Pay for your own movies than. I hear Oprah and Jay-Z got money

  • @Blufishii

    @Blufishii

    2 ай бұрын

    @@geoff3103 your feelings got hurt huh😂

  • @geoff3103

    @geoff3103

    2 ай бұрын

    @@Blufishiisounds like your feelings got hurt.😂 And have been hurt for a long time 😂😂😂

  • @geoff3103
    @geoff31032 ай бұрын

    i'll be more impressed when a real POC creates a movie like Oppenheimer or Holdovers or Barbie or Batman.

  • @lxXSuddenDeathXxl

    @lxXSuddenDeathXxl

    2 ай бұрын

    American Fiction was magnificent. Up there with those films and rightfully so. Way to move the goalpost, l0 ser. If it's not one thing it's another with folks like you.

  • @geoff3103

    @geoff3103

    2 ай бұрын

    @@lxXSuddenDeathXxlWhy do you say POC can't do movies like that? Moving the goal post huh? Care to elaborate on that? Your words, not mine.

  • @lxXSuddenDeathXxl

    @lxXSuddenDeathXxl

    2 ай бұрын

    @@geoff3103 It’s no wonder you need someone to elaborate simple words to you like a 5-year-old. Putting words in my mouth like an untrustworthy individual.

  • @geoff3103

    @geoff3103

    2 ай бұрын

    @@lxXSuddenDeathXxlaawww you mad! LOL

  • @singstreetcar5881
    @singstreetcar58812 ай бұрын

    I'm happy for him but american fiction is a regular movie. Nothing special or artistic

  • @TheStarDeth
    @TheStarDeth2 ай бұрын

    There's already a lot of movie with black people that are not stereotype. Nothing knew here...

  • @K_patts8370

    @K_patts8370

    2 ай бұрын

    Ooo, name a few!!

  • @TheStarDeth

    @TheStarDeth

    2 ай бұрын

    @@K_patts8370 Just Will Smith how many different type of chacarters he play, they think we are still in 1930's...

  • @TheStarDeth

    @TheStarDeth

    2 ай бұрын

    @@wwooooff yeah english is not my first language, the real evil is creating probleme that don't exist.

  • @TheStarDeth

    @TheStarDeth

    2 ай бұрын

    @@wwooooff stupid is when you don't have any argument like you

  • @pioneeracademy6488

    @pioneeracademy6488

    2 ай бұрын

    You are right. Will Smith has had the unique opportunity to play all types of characters. However, most of those characters were written for white actors with a few notable exceptions and weren't depictions of a black experience. You could have inserted any actor into those roles and made the same film. Will Smith's portrayal of real people; Muhammed Ali, Richard Williams and Chris Gardner are wonderful displays of the 'diversity within the diversity' that the Cord Jefferson is talking about. It would be great to see writers develop projects that AREN'T biographical that have that same level of character development and study of the human experience. After all, black people are HUMAN.

  • @darkjedi7
    @darkjedi72 ай бұрын

    ffs Oscars! you have one job ONE fking job to do!! Oppenheimer's full sweep!!

  • @sydniscott7275

    @sydniscott7275

    2 ай бұрын

    Oppenheimer literally won 7 oscars, stop complaining

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