American Fiction Declared Best Film by Black Film Critics Circle

Cord Jefferson’s Americna Fiction has been named Best Film by the Black Film Critics Circle. The film also picked up wins for Best Director, Best Actor for Jeffrey Wright, Best Supporting Actor for Sterling K. Brown, Best Ensemble and Best Adapted Screenplay in a tie with Oppenheimer.

Full list of winners below.

Best Film

American Fiction

Best Director

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction

Best Actor

Jeffrey Wright, American Fiction

Best Actress:

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Origin

Best Supporting Actor

Sterling K. Brown, American Fiction

Best Supporting Actress

Danielle Brooks, The Color Purple

Best Original Screenplay

Celine Song, Past Lives

Best Adapted Screenplay (tie)

Cord Jefferson, American Fiction & Christopher Nolan, Oppenheimer

Best Animated

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Best Documentary

American Symphony

Best Ensemble

American Fiction

Best Cinematography

Robbie Ryan, Poor Things

BFCC Signature Awards

Pioneer: Lisa Cortés, Little Richard: I Am Everything (director)
Rising Star / Best Newcomer (tie): A.V. Rockwell, A Thousand and One (director) & Tia Nomore, Earth Mama (actress)
Special Mention: Colman Domingo for The Color Purple and Rustin

Top 10 Films

1. American Fiction
2. Oppenheimer
3. The Color Purple
4. Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
5. Origin
6. Past Lives
7. Poor Things
8. Barbie
9. Maestro
10. Anatomy of a Fall


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.