American Fiction (2023)

For some extra movie content this month we’re doing extra drops of the Best Picture nominees we missed leading up to the 2024 Academy Awards. It’s the first awards show we will sit and watch in decades. It’s been decades because this kind of award show stuff is boring as shit. The Golden Globes? I’ve never watched more than 5 minutes of that stuff. Movies are great but we take the circle jerking with a grain of salt. I mean, at least 40 percent of the people in this business are monsters and that’s a very polite estimate. But, we’re heading towards a year of MOVIEHUMPERS and maybe we should talk about the biggest award ceremony in film. It’s fun to gripe at a show sometimes and one year a guy walked onto stage and slapped another guy. We need more of that energy at the Oscars from a variety of people. Catty glances are fun too. Today we discuss a pleasant and well cast Best Picture nominee in Cord Jefferson’s feature film debut. The comedy “AMERICAN FICTION” stars Jeffrey Wright, John Ortiz, Issa Rae and Sterling K. Brown. It’s about artistic struggle, cultural expectations and the troubles of family. A funny movie with solid characters that stands alongside “The Holdovers” as another Oscar nominee about a grumpy professor.

 

American Fiction’s Oscar Nominations are:

Best Picture

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Music / Original Score

 

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