American Fiction

Winner
People’s Choice Award
Toronto International Film Festival
Nominee
Best Actor - Musical or Comedy
Golden Globes
Nominee
Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director
Directors Guild of America
An unflinching and seriously funny examination of how the alchemy of race operates throughout the USA’s culture industry.
-- Jonathan W. Gray, The New Republic

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American Fiction

American Fiction is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
R
Genre
Comedy, Drama, African-American Experience
Runtime
117
Language
English
Director
Cord Jefferson
Writer(s)
Cord Jefferson
Cast
Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, Issa Rae, Sterling K Brown, Leslie Uggams, Erika Alexander, Adam Brody, John Ortiz, Myra Lucretia Taylor
Awards:
Winner, People’s Choice Award, Toronto International Film Festival
Nominee, Best Actor - Musical or Comedy, Golden Globes
Nominee, Outstanding Directorial Achievement of a First-Time Feature Film Director, Directors Guild of America
Nominee, Best Picture, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Music (Original Score), Academy Awards
Nominee, Best Adapted Screenplay, Academy Awards
Winner, Best Screenplay, Spirit Awards
Winner, Best Lead Performance, Spirit Awards
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