Geoffrey Fletcher for Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire won the award for the Best Adapted Screenplay. The 82nd Academy Awards was held on March 7, 2010 and aired live, from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. There were five nominees for the Best Adapted Screenplay Award. The nominees were District 9, An Education, In the Loop, Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire, and Up in the Air. The Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay is one of the Academy Awards, the most well-known film awards in the United States. It is awarded annually to the writer of a screenplay adapted from another resource (usually a short story, Television show, play or novel but can also be another film).http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees?cid=10_oscars_landingCallout_nominations

Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell were nominated for the film District 9 for Best Adapted Screenplay award for writing the film. Also nominated was the film An Education that is a screenplay by Nick Hornby and In the Loop that is a screenplay by Jesse Armstrong, Simon Blackwell, Armando Iannucci, and Tony Roche. Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire which is a screenplay by Geoffrey Fletcher and Up in the Air a screenplay by Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner are also nominees for the 2010 Oscar award.http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees?cid=10_oscars_landingCallout_nominations

Geoffrey Fletcher accepts the 2010 Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.

In the film District 9, a massive out of service spaceship comes to Johannesburg, South Africa and has led to the organization of an exiled camp on the outskirts of the city and the aliens are all starving. Security expert Wilkus van de Merwe tries to move its habitats to a more isolated location. However, he doesn't know the visitors very well and he endures a remarkable change when he becomes contaminated with an alien material.http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees/district-9/3267

An Education is a coming-of-age drama based on a short story by Lynn Barber. The film is set in a London suburb in 1961, An Education is the story of a bored teenage girl, Jenny (Carey Mulligan), who believes earning an Oxford education will be her ticket to a stylish adulthood.http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees/an-education/3491

In the Loop is set in the days before the Iraq War. A British government minister that has a knack for stating things that send the prime minister's office into a fury, finds himself in a dilemma when he is caught between his war opposition and the official position of his party. The problem develops into a heightened dilemma when he also gets involved in the secret bickering in Washington.http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees/in-the-loop/3489

Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire is a film about Precious Jones who is a 16 year old almost ignorant, overweight, who is a victim of terrible verbal and physical abuse by her father and mother. Precious, who is facing an apparently unpromising future, transfers to a new school where fellow classmates and a devoted teacher give the sad young girl a possibility of a new life.http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees/precious-based-on-the-novel-push-by-sapphire/3259

Up in the Air is a film about a corporate downsizer named Ryan Bingham who spends every day in airports, airplanes and hotel while he travels across the country laying off other companies' employees with sophisticated poise. The story develops when two women, one is a young coworker who is inexperienced and the other is a refined fellow traveler.http://oscar.go.com/nominations/nominees/up-in-the-air/3506