American Fiction
Writers Guild of America West (WGAW) and Writers Guild of America East (WGAE) unveiled the winners of the 2024 Writers Guild Awards for outstanding achievement in writing for film, television, new media, news, radio/audio, and promotional categories during concurrent ceremonies on Sunday evening...
Celine Song’s quiet romance “Past Lives” won two of the biggest awards at the Film Independent Spirit Awards Sunday afternoon, honored for best feature and best director. Other big winners were Cord Jefferson’s comedic satire “ American Fiction,” with Jeffrey Wright winning for lead performer,...
The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) has unveiled the winners of the 15th annual AAFCA Awards honoring outstanding achievement in film, and the organization’s selections for its top ten films of the year.
Leading the way were American Fiction and The Color...
Upon reading Cord Jefferson’s script for American Fiction (Orion Pictures/Amazon MGM Studios), editor Hilda Rasula said it was “clear from the get-go” that this was a film she deeply wanted to work on. “I believed in the story and his tone of writing, mixing comedy and drama. It was...
The 30th Screen Actors Guild Awards on Wednesday heaped nominations on "Oppenheimer," "Barbie" and "American Fiction," while snubbing Leonardo DiCaprio for best male actor.
As they were at the Golden Globes, Greta Gerwig's "Barbie" and Christopher Nolan's "Oppenheimer" were again the lead...
One cinematographer took on a feature which is now generating Oscar buzz, thus continuing what’s been a fruitful collaborative relationship with writer-director Ava DuVernay
Another DP embraced a return engagement with director George C. Wolfe, also on a movie that’s considered an Academy...
Jeffrey Wright has played Jean-Michel Basquiat, Martin Luther King Jr. and Muddy Waters. He's played Colin Powell, a Dominican drug kingpin, Batman's Commissioner Gordon and a longtime inmate nearing release. He's played Bill Murray's neighbor, a Civil War-era former slave, James Bond's Felix...
Jeffrey Wright's Thelonious "Monk" Ellison is at the end of his rope at the beginning of " American Fiction, " a crowd-pleaser that's both funny and smart in its satire of race, media, artists, identity politics and even Hollywood. It opens in theaters this week.
A classic frustrated...
American Fiction, May December and Past Lives topped the Film Independent Spirit Awards’ feature film nomination tally with five apiece. Right behind with four nods each were The Holdovers and Passages.
American Fiction, May December,...
Highlights abound on the current festival circuit for Cord Jefferson--with two in particular standing out for American Fiction (Amazon MGM Studios), which marks his directorial debut. The first major splash came last month at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where ...