In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s, based on the true story of the Dozier reform school in Florida, where many boys were beaten and ...

Nickel Boys”—director Ramell Ross’ drama that earned a 2025 Best Picture Oscar nomination—is coming soon to streaming video ...

Is it possible to capture a well-received book’s power without diluting it entirely? With his film “Nickel Boys” (2024), director RaMell Ross passes the adaptation test. Drawing from Colson ...

In “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross ... Academy for his novel “The Nickel Boys.” It won the Pulitzer Prize in 2020. Now comes a film version of the book, directed and written (with Joslyn ...

Whitehead’s book was inspired by the real-life horrors of Florida’s Dozier School for Boys, where at least 81 abused children were killed and buried in unmarked graves. But “Nickel Boys ...

Ross, who adapted the book with Joslyn Barnes, confines the camera perspectives nearly entirely to the points of view of two teenage boys, Elwood and Turner, who meet at the Nickel Academy in ...

"Nickel Boys," which received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, was shot almost entirely in the ...

Nickel Boys. Whitehead’s work could readily have undergone a much more conventional adaptation, as happened for TV with his prior and equally lauded novel, The Underground Railroad. By immersing ...

Nickel Boys, directed by RaMell Ross, has received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.