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“American Fiction” is up for five Oscars on Sunday, including best picture, best adapted screenplay (by the movie’s director, Cord Jefferson, from Percival Everett’s novel “Erasure ...
It’s easy to imagine viewers coming away from American Fiction with various interpretations of Monk and his ruse, and ahead of the film’s premiere, we spoke with Jefferson about wrestling with ...
Wright also thanked members of his cast and explained that the film was initially independent because no one wanted to finance it. “American Fiction” also stars Tracee Ellis Ross, Erika ...
Nothing’s gonna stop it now. What Movies Will It Remind You Of?: Many compare it to Spike Lee’s Bamboozled for its similar conceit, but American Fiction strikes me as subtly singular in its ...
It grounds the film before it becomes just pure satirical farce. When the 2024 Golden Globes nominations were announced in December 2023, it was revealed that American Fiction received nods in two ...
The first film from the director Cord Jefferson stars Jeffrey Wright as an author who becomes a pseudonymous success writing a potboiler he loathes. transcript The screenwriter and director Cord ...
Cord Jefferson's "American Fiction," a biting satire starring Jeffrey Wright as a disillusioned academic, has won the People's Choice Award at Toronto International Film Festival, a much-watched ...
“When they greenlit this movie, I started crying in the meeting ... Now, with the early awards recognition for American Fiction (ahead of a Dec. 15 rollout), who knows, maybe that project ...
By Carita Rizzo Before American Fiction producer Ben LeClair ends his ... feel like filler in describing Cord Jefferson’s feature film debut based on Percival Everett’s 2001 novel Erasure.
Ready to experience the film that’s up for five Academy Awards, including Best Motion Picture of the Year? Here’s how to watch American Fiction online before the Oscars. In American Fiction ...
A low-key movie with a pointed message, “American Fiction” offers an amusing look at a serious subject – namely, the kind of Black images with which predominantly White decision-makers in ...