Nickel Boys

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Nickel Boys

Nominated for two Academy Awards—Including Best Picture

Nominated for two Academy Awards: Writing—Adapted Screenplay (RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes) and Best Picture.

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black men navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida.

"As major and memorable an achievement as any American film this decade."
David Ehrlich, IndieWire
"A clear masterpiece held together by visual splendor and idiosyncratic performances."
Robert Daniels, RogerEbert.com


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