American Fiction

Nominee – Best Motion Picture of the Year

Nominee – Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) – Laura Karpman

Nominee – Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role – Jeffery Wright

Nominee – Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role – Sterling K. Brown

Nominee – Best Adapted Screenplay – Cord Jefferson

“When you watch Wright feel out the contours and add several dozen notes of grace to the misanthropic Monk… you truly understand why few screen performers can match him.” – Chicago Reader

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.