- Directed by: Cord Jefferson
- Cast: Jeffrey Wright, Tracee Ellis Ross, John Ortiz
- Year: 2023
- Duration: 117min
- Certificate: 15
- Type: Film
American Fiction is Cord Jefferson's hilarious directorial debut, which confronts our culture’s obsession with reducing people to outrageous stereotypes. Jeffrey Wright stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who’s fed up with the establishment profiting from “Black” entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish “Black” book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Winner of the Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar at the 2024 Academy Awards.