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The riveting film "Precious" yielded a best supporting actress win for African-American performer Mo'Nique, and the first ever statuette for an African-American screenwriter in the best adapted screenplay category went to Geoffrey Fletcher.
CNN: Cover story: Where's the diversity at the Oscars?
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The cinematographer John Bailey is shooting a portrait of Werner Herzog, the soulful, disaster-prone German director, at the same time that Herzog and Zak Penn, a crass American screenwriter-producer, go off to Loch Ness to make a film about our spiritual need for monsters.
NEWYORKER: Incident at Loch Ness
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Zoe Kazan, one of the best of the crop of young American actresses, is also a playwright and screenwriter.
NEWYORKER: Ticket to Paradise