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AMERICAN FICTION is “A Modern Classic” | Nominated for 5 Academy Awards Including Best Picture
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AMERICAN FICTION is “A Modern Classic” | Nominated for 5 Academy Awards Including Best Picture

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AMERICAN FICTION has received 5 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actor (Jeffrey Wright), Best Supporting Actor (Sterling K. Brown), Best Adapted Screenplay (Cord Jefferson) and Best Original Score (Laura Karpman).

Named “The Best Picture of the Year” by many, including Ann Hornaday of The Washington Post and Clayton Davis of Variety, AMERICAN FICTION has also won the Critics Choice and BAFTA Film Award for Adapted Screenplay (Cord Jefferson), and is nominated for a PGA Award for Best Picture, and 3 SAG Awards including Best Actor (Jeffrey Wright), Best Supporting Actor (Sterling K. Brown), and Outstanding Performance by a Cast. 

Learn how Jeffrey Wright dove into the character of Monk, both personally and emotionally, in what critics are calling his career-best performance, and hear what his cast members have to say about working with him. [WATCH MORE]

Sterling K. Brown discusses what drew him to the story of AMERICAN FICTION, and how he navigated Cliff Ellison’s “…

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