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Cord Jefferson took home the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the satirical comedy-drama

Cord Jefferson, writer and filmmaker, won the Academy Award on Sunday night for his debut film, "American Fiction."

'Oppenheimer' beat out the casts of 'American Fiction,' 'Barbie,' 'The Color Purple,' and 'Killers of the Flower Moon' for the coveted outstanding performance by a cast in a motion picture prize at the 2024 SAG Awards on Saturday.

Park City Film Screenings Park City Film continues its weekend screening of Cord Jefferson’s “American Fiction,” rated R, through Sunday, Feb. 25, at the Park City Library’s Jim Santy Auditorium, 1255 Park Ave. Saturday’s screening...

The movie has a sharp, amusing bent when it criticizes such legitimate targets as fake “gangsta” culture, but, in the end, it falls back all too lazily on racialist cliches.

It's an Oscar longshot, but it shouldn't be.

THE SATURDAY INTERVIEW: The veteran character actor – best known for his roles in ‘The Batman’, ‘Casino Royale’ and ‘The French Dispatch’ – has earnt the best reviews of his career and a Best Actor Oscar nod for his work in the new satirical comedy ‘American Fiction’. He speaks to Charlotte O’Sullivan

Composer Laura Karpman talks about her first Oscar nomination for American Fiction and scoring "tragedy and deeply felt emotions."

Cord Jefferson on his best picture & adapted screenplay Oscar nominations for American Fiction.

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with Cord Jefferson's American Fiction.