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What to Stream: Tina Fey and Steve Carell, Martha Stewart and José Andrés, and Maddie & Tae

Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick going to Italy for a wedding and some mafia intrigue in the movie “Another Simple Favor” and new music from country duo Maddie & Tae are some of the new television, films, music and games headed to a device near you

The Independent UK

Nickel Boys could be the most radical literary adaptation ever made – but how does it compare to the book?

The Nickel Boys (2019) won Colson Whitehead his second Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, making him one of just four writers to win it twice. The novel’s main setting is the Nickel Academy, a segregated reform school in mid-1960s Florida, based on the real-life Dozier School for Boys.

The Conversation

Nickel Boys’ Brandon Wilson: ‘There’s no logic to racial structures’

RISING STARS: The rising star of the Oscar-nominated drama speaks to Lydia Spencer-Elliott about the ghosts of America’s past, his exciting future and an unlikely British sitcom connection

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A Wicked shame! In 2025, blockbuster success spells Oscars failure

The Oz-set blockbuster, plus the Inside Out and Dune sequels, packed out cinemas but won’t win best picture at Sunday’s Academy Awards

The Guardian - UK

Salon's infallible Oscar predictions

Salon's film critic and resident film buff are here to make sense of the most unpredictable awards season in years

Salon

What to stream: The Oscars with Conan O’Brien, Kate Hudson in 'Running Point' and 'Nickel Boys'

The Oscars telecast hosted by Conan O’Brien and Kate Hudson playing a pro basketball team president in a new Netflix series called “Running Point” are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

The Independent UK

‘History was attempted to be buried’: the true story behind Oscar-nominated Nickel Boys

Director RaMell Ross details horrors behind Florida School for Boys that backdropped the moving film adaptation

The Guardian - US

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Why Nickel Boys should win the best picture Oscar

In the first of our annual Oscar hustings, here’s why RaMell Ross’s incredibly tender film of Colson Whitehead’s novel should take the top prize

The Guardian - UK

What's going to win best picture? We rank the Oscar field

The inner-Vatican machinations of “Conclave” have nothing on this year’s Oscar race

The Independent UK

'Anora' wins at Producers and Directors Guild Awards

Did a wide-open Oscar race just get a frontrunner

The Independent UK

'Anora' Wins Top Hollywood Producer And Director Prizes

"Anora" was named the best film of the year by Hollywood's directors and producers on Saturday, cementing its new status as the film to beat at the upcoming Oscars.

International Business Times

Anora's Sean Baker takes home top prize at DGA Awards

'Anora's Sean Baker won the coveted Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Theatrical Feature Film prize at the Directors Guild of America (DGA) Awards on Saturday (08.02.25) night.

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Critics Choice Awards Complete Winners' List: 'The Substance', 'Wicked', 'Emilia Perez' dominate but 'Anora' babs Best Picture

The 30th annual Critics Choice Awards saw Wicked, Emilia Perez, and The Substance emerging as top winners, with each film scoring three wins on Friday night. However, the top honour of Best Picture went to Anora in a surprise win.

The Times of India

The Brutalist wins best film at London Critics’ Circle awards

Epic drama takes top prize, Ralph Fiennes and Marianne Jean-Baptiste win best actors and RaMell Ross best director

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Demi Moore leads big Oscar nom surprises

A history-making nomination. A nod that will get Trump riled up. A film no one can agree on. Yep, it's Oscar season

USA Today Sports Media Group

A former Georgetown men’s basketball player is one of this year’s Oscar nominees

One of this year's Oscar nominees played basketball at Georgetown.

Evening Standard

Things to do in London this weekend, from Billie Eilish to Bill Bailey

Mike Daw returns with his pick of the best things to see, do and hear this weekend

The Guardian - UK

And the winner should be… Observer critics choose their alternative Oscars for 2025

Before the Academy Award nominations are announced on Sunday, Observer critics name their standout movies, performances, directors and more

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Nickel Boys review – sublime, immersive adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s haunting reform school novel

Shot largely from the point of view of its two main characters, RaMell Ross’s masterly film takes you to the wrenching heart of this American south tale of brutal 60s racism

Evening Standard

Nickel Boys review: you might not see a more astonishing film than this in 2025

5/5 This story of the friendship between two boys at a reform school in Sixties Florida is a brutal work of cinematic beauty

The Independent UK

Nickel Boys is an artistically daring masterpiece

5/5 RaMell Ross’s adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel uses a point-of-view camera to fully immerse audiences

The Guardian - UK

Nickel Boys star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor: ‘If we see something wrong and don’t say anything, we’re participants’

With a role in the Oscar-tipped reform school drama, the actor continues to pick parts that align with her activism. She recalls how the resilience of her grandmother – and the racism faced by her grandfather – has shaped her

The Guardian - UK

‘What would happen if the camera was Buddhist?’ The outlier film-making of RaMell Ross

The US photographer and director of Hale County This Morning, This Evening talks about how his latest film, Nickel Boys, redraws the contours of cinema

The Guardian - US

Best movies of 2024 in the US: No 2 – Nickel Boys

RaMell Ross’s artful and unconventional adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel offers a radically immersive route into a difficult story

Salon

"Nickel Boys" is a cinematic masterwork

Adapting Colson Whitehead's Pultizer-winning novel, director RaMell Ross favors earthly beauty over anguish

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