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A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
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A novelist fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment uses a pen name to write a book that propels him into the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.
Best Screenplay (Adapted) | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Lead Performance | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Outstanding Lead Performance | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Outstanding Film | 2024 | Nikos Karamigios
Outstanding Director | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Lead Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Actor | 2023 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Supporting Actor | 2023 | Sterling K. Brown
Best Director | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Ensemble Cast | 2024 | Jennifer Euston
Best Actor | 2023 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Supporting Actor | 2024 | Sterling K. Brown
Emerging Filmmaker | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Original Score for a Comedy Film | 2024 | Laura Karpman
Best Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Film | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Breakthrough Directing | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Narrative Feature | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
(director) | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role | 2024 | Sterling K. Brown
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures (Original Score) | 2024 | Laura Karpman
Best Motion Picture of the Year | 2024 | Nikos Karamigios
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Motion Picture Musical or Comedy | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media | 2025 | Laura Karpman
Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture | 2024 | Erika Alexander
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Leading Role | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role | 2024 | Sterling K. Brown
Best Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best First Film | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Actor of the Year (for an exemplary body of work) | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Lead Performance | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Score | 2024 | Laura Karpman
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | 2024 | Sterling K. Brown
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture | 2024 | Erika Alexander
Best Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Original Score | 2024 | Laura Karpman
Best Director | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Actor | 2023 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Supporting Actress | 2024 | Leslie Uggams
Best Lead Performance | 2023 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Breakout of the Year | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Debut Feature | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Supporting Actor | 2024 | Sterling K. Brown
Best Director | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Actor | 2023 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Supporting Actor | 2023 | Sterling K. Brown
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Actor | 2023 | Jeffrey Wright
Breakout Filmmaker of the Year | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Actor in a Motion Picture Comedy or Musical | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Original Score | 2024 | Laura Karpman
Best Screenplay Adapted | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Ensemble | 2024 | Jennifer Euston
Best Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Feature Debut | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Supporting Actor | 2024 | Sterling K. Brown
Best Lead Actor in Film | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Screenplay in Film | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Actor of the Year | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best First Feature | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Director | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Casting | 2024 | Jennifer Euston
Best Lead Performance Male | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Actor | 2023 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Lead Performance | 2023 | Jeffrey Wright
Outstanding Lead Performance | 2023 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Actor of the Year | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Actor | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Directorial Debut | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Lead Performance by an Actor Male | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Actor | 2023 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Director | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Screenplay | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Actor in a Leading Role | 2024 | Jeffrey Wright
Best Supporting Actor | 2024 | Sterling K. Brown
Outstanding Supporting Performance | 2024 | Erika Alexander
Best Supporting Performance | 2024 | Erika Alexander
Best Feature | 2024 | Nikos Karamigios
Best Actor in a Supporting Role | 2024 | Sterling K. Brown
Best Supporting Actor | 2023 | Sterling K. Brown
Best Adapted Screenplay | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Director | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Best Original Score Feature Film | 2023 | Laura Karpman
Outstanding Original Score for a Studio Film | 2024 | Laura Karpman
Outstanding Achievement in Casting Studio or Independent Feature Comedy | 2024 | Melissa Morris
Best First Film | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | 2024 | Nikos Karamigios
Cinema for Peace Dove for The Most Valuable Film of the Year | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Film | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Breakthrough Filmmaker | 2023 | Cord Jefferson
Adapted Screenplay | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Outstanding Directorial Achievement in FirstTime Feature Film | 2024 | Cord Jefferson
Best Achievement in DecorDesign of a Comedy or Musical Feature Film | 2024 | Jonathan Guggenheim
Best Edited Feature Film Comedy | 2024 | Hilda Rasula
Budget 16,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 22,483,370 USD
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In a 2023 interview with Esquire, Cord Jefferson explained his approach to a key scene in the film and how the actors elevated it in unexpected ways: "We've all seen that scene of the writer pounding the keyboard frantically, then taking a big sip of coffee and getting back to it. That's how you depict somebody intensely writing. But I thought, 'We can't have that. It's tropey and silly, and it doesn't get the audience's minds going.' So why not have these characters manifest in front of him? When I wrote that scene, I wrote the language to be very silly. It had to be ridiculous so that everybody could see how stupid this book is and what a sham it is. Then we got Keith David and Okieriete Onaodowan, who are both such tremendous actors. All of the sudden, it wasn't silly anymore. They made it seem like the book might be good. I love what the scene became in their hands: suddenly you're questioning whether or not the book is good, which is evidence that something as ridiculous as this book could become a hit."
According to an interview in the Arizona Daily Star, most of the fictional book titles of the "Literary Award" finalists were the names of bands whose members screenwriter Cord Jefferson was friends with during middle school and high school in Tucson.
The photo Monk stares at in the stairway is from Doctors Kenneth and Mamie Clark's study "The Doll Test"; which was used in the Supreme Court case "Brown v. Board of Education" which ended school segregation.
Cord Jefferson's directorial debut.
Although there's plenty of jazz on the soundtrack, none of it is by Thelonious Monk, after whom the lead character is nicknamed.
