In an industry climate where movies that aren’t superhero franchises have a tougher time making it to the forefront, American Fiction is a celebration of original Black stories getting a chance. Named ...

“American Fiction” is currently vying for five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Jeffrey Wright) and Best Supporting Actor (Sterling K. Brown), and now you can watch a conversation ...

Jefferson adapted “American Fiction” from the fantastic 2001 Percival Everett book “Erasure.” The film — which stars a tour-de-force of Black excellence, including Jeffrey Wright, Sterling K. Brown, ...

Erika Alexander is using Oscar night to pay tribute to her mom. At the 2024 Oscars on Sunday, March 10, the American Fiction star took a moment to thank the person who made her career possible: her ...

When Laura Karpman was invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Music Branch in 2015, on the heels of cofounding the Alliance for Women Film Composers, she was the first female ...

Prior to American Fiction, Sterling K. Brown was best known as Randall Pearson in the long-running, award-winning NBC family drama series This is Us. The part that director Cord Jefferson was offering ...

Jeffrey Wright is a frustrated author bent on making the publishing industry see its own racist hypocrisy in the first trailer for American Fiction. In Cord Jefferson’s directorial debut, Jeffrey ...

I share my colleague Pete Hammond’s fascination with Cord Jefferson’s BAFTA win for his screenplay adaptation, American Fiction. It is no small thing for a self-consciously American story to win a ...

“American Fiction” director Cord Jefferson opened up about the significance of telling diverse Black stories after winning his first Oscar at the 2024 Academy Awards on Sunday. The writer-director, ...

LOS ANGELES -- "American Fiction" took home the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. "This means the world to me," said director Cord Jefferson during his acceptance speech. The film was adapted from ...

Erick Massoto is a Brazilian writer who's always loved film and TV and loves finding connections between them. That's why he supports double features, especially if they are of a modern film paired ...

In his latest book, “James,” author Percival Everett retells the story of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” refocusing the narrative on Jim, the novel’s enslaved main character.