LOS ANGELES -- "American Fiction" took home the Oscar for best adapted screenplay. "This means the world to me," said director Cord Jefferson during his acceptance speech. The film was adapted from ...
Zora Neale Hurston holds a distinctive position in American literature. Trained as an anthropologist and driven by a ...
‘American Fiction’ was Cord Jefferson’s first ever feature film. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images) “American Fiction” won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay, a triumph for writer-director Cord Jefferson, ...
American Fiction‘s Cord Jefferson is officially an Oscar winner — and he’s pleading with Hollywood studios to give more up and coming creatives a shot at their own golden statuette. While accepting ...
Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the year’s most talked-about scripts continues with writer-director Cord Jefferson‘s feature film debut American Fiction. Adapted from Percival ...
“American Fiction” hit select theaters on Friday following its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 8. Since then, the film and its star-studded cast have been bringing in ...
Cord Jefferson is officially an Oscar winner! The writer and filmmaker's feature film debut, American Fiction, nabbed the Academy Award for Adapted Screenplay, beating out predicted front runners such ...
A movie based in Massachusetts has won an Oscar for its ability to turn a book into a feature film. Cord Jefferson’s comedy-drama “American Fiction,” which earned five Oscar nominations this year, ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Dumbfounded that nobody is buying his books anymore, author and literature professor Thelonious “Monk” Ellison pens a novel full of tired, offensive Black stereotypes as a joke. It ...
"American Fiction," a movie with scenes filmed in Scituate, won the Oscar for best adapted screenplay at the 96th Academy Awards ceremony Sunday night. The movie was nominated in several Oscar ...