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97TH ACADEMY AWARDS | 2025 OSCARS CHALLENGE
“NICKEL BOYS“
February 7, 2025
SPIRIT AWARD SCREENER









…Review and Analysis Coming Soon

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.
Directed by RaMell Ross
Orion Pictures + Amazon MGM Studios
December 13, 2024
140 minutes











best MOTION PICTURE
Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner and Joslyn Barnes
| 2011 | 84th Academy Awards | Best Picture | “The Tree Of Life” | Nominee |
| 2013 | 86th Academy Awards | Best Picture | “12 Years A Slave” | WINNER |
| 2014 | 87th Academy Awards | Best Picture | “Selma” | Nominee |
| 2015 | 88th Academy Awards | Best Picture | “The Big Short” | Nominee |
| 2016 | 89th Academy Awards | Best Picture | “Moonlight” | WINNER |
| 2018 | 91st Academy Awards | Best Picture | “Vice” | Nominee |
| 2022 | 95th Academy Awards | Best Picture | “Women Talking” | Nominee |
| 2013 | 86th Academy Awards | Best Picture | “12 Years A Slave” | WINNER |
| 2014 | 87th Academy Awards | Best Picture | “Selma” | Nominee |
| 2015 | 88th Academy Awards | Best Picture | “The Big Short” | Nominee |
| 2016 | 89th Academy Awards | Best Picture | “Moonlight” | WINNER |
| 2018 | 91st Academy Awards | Best Picture | “Vice” | Nominee |
| 2022 | 95th Academy Awards | Best Picture | “Women Talking” | Nominee |
| 2017 | 90th Academy Awards | Best Documentary (Feature) | “Strong Island” | Nominee |
| 2018 | 91st Academy Awards | Best Documentary (Feature) | “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” | Nominee |

EXPERTS
1. “Anora”
2. “Conclave”
3. “The Brutalist”
4. “A Complete Unknown”
5. “Wicked”
6. “Emilia Pérez”
7. “The Substance”
8. “I’m Still Here”
9. “Dune: Part Two”
10. “Nickel Boys”

PERSONAL
1. “Anora”
2. “Dune: Part Two”
3. “The Substance”
4. “The Brutalist”
5. “Wicked”
6. “Conclave”
7. “Nickel Boys”
8. “A Complete Unknown”
9. “Emilia Pérez”
10. “I’m Still Here”







best ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Screenplay by RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
Based on “The Nickel Boys” by Colson Whitehead
| 2018 | 91st Academy Awards | Best Documentary (Feature) | “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” | Nominee |
| 2017 | 90th Academy Awards | Best Documentary (Feature) | “Strong Island” | Nominee |
| 2018 | 91st Academy Awards | Best Documentary (Feature) | “Hale County This Morning, This Evening” | Nominee |

EXPERTS
1. “Conclave”
2. “A Complete Unknown”
3. “Nickel Boys”
4. “Sing Sing”
5. “Emilia Pérez”

PERSONAL
1. “Conclave”
2. “Sing Sing”
3. “Nickel Boys”
4. “A Complete Unknown”
5. “Emilia Pérez”






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