Contemporary off its world premiere at Telluride and a plum spot opening the 2024 New York Movie Pageant, RaMell Ross’s “Nickel Boys,” an Orion Photos launch, has introduced the classes wherein it intends to marketing campaign for this coming awards season.
Most notably, the variation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, about two younger Black males bonded by the horrific expertise of being caught in a Sixties reform college in Florida, will cut up the titular roles between two classes.
Ethan Herisse, who performs younger Elwood, the character which viewers initially expertise the movie via, will compete within the Greatest Actor class. Brandon Wilson as Turner, the primary pal Elwood makes on the college, whose eyes the viewers ultimately sees the movie via as nicely, will marketing campaign within the Greatest Supporting Actor class alongside co-stars like Hamish Linklater, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs, Jimmie Fails, and Craig Tate, who all have smaller, however nonetheless pivotal roles within the movie.
Star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, who has acquired rave opinions for the movie, will as soon as once more marketing campaign for Greatest Supporting Actress, having been nominated for an Oscar two years in the past for her efficiency within the movie “King Richard.”
A part of what has made “Nickel Boys” the topic of a lot dialog is filmmaker Ross’ resolution to inform the story via the primary individual point-of-view of each Elwood and Turner, a daring selection that has made him a Greatest Director contender, whereas additionally minting him and co-writer Joslyn Barnes as Greatest Tailored Screenplay contenders and Director of Images Jomo Fray as a Greatest Cinematography contender.
Barnes, who was nominated for an Oscar alongside Ross earlier than for his directorial debut “Hale County This Morning, This Night,” additionally has a producer credit score on “Nickel Boys,” alongside Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner of Plan B Leisure, and David Levine of Nameless Content material. Ought to the movie obtain a Greatest Image nomination, these could be the 4 names listed.
Elsewhere, “Nickel Boys” will marketing campaign Nicholas Monsour for Greatest Movie Enhancing, Brittany Loar for Greatest Costume Design, manufacturing designer Nora Mendis and set decorator Monique Champagne for Greatest Manufacturing Design, make-up division head Ignacia Soto-Aguilar and hair division head Shan Williams for Greatest Make-up and Hairstyling, manufacturing sound mixer Mark LeBlanc and co-supervising sound editors/re-recording mixers Tony Volante and Daniel Timmons for Greatest Sound, and composers Alex Somers and Scott Alario for Greatest Unique Rating.
Following an analogous route the studio took for Oscar winner “American Fiction,” Amazon MGM Studios plans to open “Nickel Boys” on December 13 in New York Metropolis and December 20 in Los Angeles.
