Oscars 2025: Nickel Boys

BBFC Ratingf-rated FilmOscars 2025: Nickel Boys

Showing: 01 March 2025

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Sat 1 Mar 2025

Certificate12A
Year2024
GenreDrama
Director(s)RaMell Ross
Writer(s)RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes
LanguageEnglish
CountryUSA
Running Time2HR 19MINS
Season Oscars 2025
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RaMell Ross (Hale County This Morning, This Evening) vividly brings Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winner to life with this masterclass in adaptation.

Nickel Boys is based on the historic reform school in 1960s Florida called the Dozier School for Boys, which was notorious for abusive treatment of students. It explores the story of Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a young African-American boy who is sent to the Nickel Academy, a fictional version of the Dozier School, after he is falsely accused of a crime.

While there, he meets a boy named Turner (Brandon Willis), and the two form a close friendship as they try to survive the horrors of the school and its corrupt administrators.

Reminiscent of the granular attention lavished by Barry Jenkins on his protagonists in Moonlight, Ross’s film is a dazzling achievement – a bold and beguiling exploration of trauma and buried American history.

Oscar nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.



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