96th Academy Awards: 'American Fiction' picks up Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay
Los Angeles, March 11: Actors Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross-starrer 'American Fiction' was named as the Best Adapted Screenplay at the 96th Academy Awards.
The film was competing alongside Margot Robbie's "Barbie", Cillian Murphy-starrer "Oppenheimer", "Poor Things" featuring Emma Stone and "The Zone of Interest".
'American Fiction' is a comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson. The film is based on the 2001 novel Erasure.
It revolves around a frustrated novelist-professor who writes a satire of stereotypical "Black" books, only for it to be mistaken by the liberal elite for serious literature and published to both high sales and critical praise.
The film was competing alongside Margot Robbie's "Barbie", Cillian Murphy-starrer "Oppenheimer", "Poor Things" featuring Emma Stone and "The Zone of Interest".
'American Fiction' is a comedy-drama film written and directed by Cord Jefferson. The film is based on the 2001 novel Erasure.
It revolves around a frustrated novelist-professor who writes a satire of stereotypical "Black" books, only for it to be mistaken by the liberal elite for serious literature and published to both high sales and critical praise.