“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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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.

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 ...

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 ...

The People’s Choice Award from the just-wrapped 2023 Toronto Film Festival has gone to Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction. First Runner-Up is Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers. Second Runner-Up ...