How to watch all of the 2024 Oscar nominees

Nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Original ScoreHow to watch: Available only in theaters. to see if it’s playing near you.What The A.V. Club said:Thelonious “Monk” Ellison is a serious writer. He’s an academic, disdains “airport books” and best-selling colleagues, confronts his students, and is advised by his agent not to “insult anyone important.” In just a few scenes at the beginning of , writer-director Cord Jefferson and actor Jeffrey Wright give the audience a complete understanding of their film’s protagonist. Cord with economical, pointed writing, and Wright with a deadpan face that is both hilarious and solemn. … Jefferson, previously a writer for shows like Watchmen and The Good Place, pens dialogue that crackles and flows out easily in inherently funny ways. The characters he lampoons—publishing editors, Hollywood producers, writers, and media types—are both the butt of the joke and its instigators. When American Fiction functions as a satire of the commercialization of art and the public’s stereotypical perception of Black people, it’s firing on all cylinders. It’s sharp, it’s smart, and it hits most of its targets. Best of all, it reveals the inherent biases and cruel assumptions about “others” that most people carry with them at all times. [Murtada Elfadl]