2025 Oscars Best Picture Series - NICKEL BOYS

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2025

⏱️ 39 minutes

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It's Oscars season! The Cine-Files hosts John Rocha and Steve Morris continue their exploration of the 2024 Best Picture nominees in their Oscars Best Picture Series with this conversation and review of NICKEL BOYS. The film from first time director RaMell Ross and based on the 2019 novel The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. The film stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, Jimmie Fails, and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, the story follows two African-American boys, Elwood (Herisse) and Turner (Wilson), who are sent to an abusive reform school in 1960s Florida. The film is inspired by the Dozier School for Boys, a now-closed Florida reform school notorious for its abusive treatment of students. Don't forget to vote in our First Annual Oscars show by signing up for our Patreon as a free or paying member. Everyone gets to vote and we will announce the winners on our live The Cine-Files Oscars show on March 1st!

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0:00.0	Hello, everyone, and welcome to another installment of our Oscars series looking at one
0:13.4	nominee for Best Picture here for the 2025 Oscars, ahead of our own Cineophiles Awards.
0:20.6	Our first annual one happening on March 1st.
0:23.5	This is open for all the people who subscribe to our Patreon, whether you be a free member or a
0:28.6	paying member. You can vote for all the categories. The document is out there. If you haven't done
0:33.6	that yet, we'd appreciate if you did. I am John Roker, joined as always by my co-host,
0:38.3	Steve Morris. Steve, how are you? I'm good, and I'm ready to talk about another, and what I will say,
0:43.1	another important film that we have this year nominated for Best Picture. Yes, absolutely. This one is
0:47.7	called Nickel Boys. It is based on the Colson Whitehead book, The Nickel Boys, directed by Rommel Ross. This is, I think, his directorial debut.
0:56.4	He is the co-writer on the screenplay of the adaptation with Jocelyn Barnes.
1:00.9	It stars Ethan Heresy, Brendan Wilson, Hamish Link Letter, Fred Heckenger, DeBeed Diggs, Jimmy Ellis,
1:07.0	and the great Angenou Ellis Taylor.
1:10.5	Steve, this one is a fascinatingly interesting film told completely from first
1:17.7	person perspective as we see a young black child going through the South at a time here
1:24.0	in the 19, I think in the 1960s, I think, or 1950s.
1:27.2	Sorry, yeah, 1960s here
1:28.7	in Tallahassee, Florida and Jim Crow, Aritalis, which is, of course, where I went to school
1:33.4	at Florida State, and we follow him, Elwood Curtis, through this whole path of his where he was
1:39.1	destined to possibly do more than the regular black child at that time.
1:44.8	But unfortunately, something happens to him.
1:46.6	It gets caught up in a situation here.
1:48.3	It's almost like what you hear in that Stevie Wonder song in the city.
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