Michael Cieply: With A BAFTA Win, ‘American Fiction’ Gets Points For Facing What Frets Us
deadline.comI share my colleague Pete Hammond’s fascination with Cord Jefferson’s BAFTA win for his screenplay adaptation, American Fiction.
It is no small thing for a self-consciously American story to win a very British award against competition as formidable as Christopher Nolan, especially for a debut film.
Pete has a point when he notes that American Fiction, based on Percival Everett’s novel Erasure, about a black novelist who hits it big when his send-up of African-American cultural clichés is taken at face value, probably got traction as the only currently Oscar-nominated adaptation that is all about writing.
Fair enough. But I’d go one step more. In fact, American Fiction is the only Oscar-nominated script that takes a serious bite out of contemporary socio-political reality.
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