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‘American Fiction’ Director Cord Jefferson Attributes Oscar Win To A Need For Diverse Storytelling
Director Cord Jefferson speaks backstage at the Oscars to talk about the importance of his American Fiction Adapted Screenplay win
To tell this story, American Fiction centers around Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (Jeffrey Wright), an intelligent and jaded author frustrated by the high-profit margins on Black entertainment that relies on discriminatory behaviors and tropes. But, in wanting to challenge the construction and prove his point about the bias for Black narratives that are more palatable for white audiences, he uses an alias to create a stereotypical book that accidentally gains him critical acclaim and notoriety. The first-time director and now Academy Award winner talked about the importance of what his Oscar meant to him in light of telling a story that poked fun of and had valid criticisms about the narrow depictions of Black lives.
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