Nickel Boys is a 2024 American historical drama film based on the 2019 novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. It was directed by RaMell Ross , who co-wrote the screenplay with Joslyn Barnes , and stars Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson , alongside Hamish Linklater , Fred Hechinger , Daveed Diggs , and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor .

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

The Nickel Boys is a 2019 novel by American novelist Colson Whitehead. It is based on the historic Dozier School , a reform school in Florida that operated for 111 years and was revealed as highly abusive.

Dec 12, 2024 · RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys,” a stirring cinematic adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is polished to a remarkable luster. Its assuredness comes on like a stiff breeze on a sticky Southern summer day, telling a boldly conceived story of two Black kids named Elwood and Turner, living during the height of ...

Dec 13, 2024 · Elwood Curtis’s college dream shatters alongside a two-lane Florida highway. Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. …

1 day ago · A movie based on north Florida's shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys has received two Oscar nominations for the 2025 Academy Awards. The film, "Nickel Boys," is an adaptation of a Pulitzer ...

Dec 14, 2024 · The Oscar-tipped film Nickel Boys adapts Colson Whitehead's novel about two boys at an abusive "reform" school and shoots it from their point of view. The...

Elwood Curtis' college dreams are shattered when he's sentenced to Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory in the Jim Crow South. Clinging to his optimistic worldview, Elwood strikes up a …

Jan 17, 2025 · Whitehead's 2019 novel, "The Nickel Boys," has been adapted into a film of the same name now in theaters. It's based on the true story of the now-closed Dozier School for...