The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in that square is clearly through a child’s eyes as ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big screen. In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s ...

Nickel Boys, which received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, was shot almost entirely in the POV of boys in the fictitious Nickel, based on the real-life Dozier School ...

After being nominated for Best Motion Picture Drama at the 82nd Annual Golden Globes, Nickel Boys went on to earn two Oscar nominations, including Best Picture and Adapted Screenplay. Amazon MGM ...

Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, now a feature film, is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. Originally broadcast July 16, 2019.

The Spanish-language thriller has dominated the 2025 nominations despite receiving a middling response from critics ...

In adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys,” director RaMell Ross faced what he calls a ...

One of the words that has most frequently been used to describe Jacques Audiard's Emilia Pérez – which has just become the most nominated film at this year's Oscars with an impressive 13 nods – is ...

Netflix’s musical crime drama has broken new ground when it comes to representation at the Oscars. But while this year’s nominations look meaningful at a glance, there’s more than a hint of empty ...

American filmmaker RaMell Ross first read Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel set in the not-too-distant past of Jim Crow South about two Black boys in a Florida reform ...

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