Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big screen. In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s ...

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

Based on Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys,” the film sounds on the surface like it might be difficult to watch, and indeed ...

The Academy Awards have picked up their pencils and voted filmmaker RaMell Ross in Best Screenplay and Best Picture at this ...

A day after this story aired and was published online, “Nickel Boys” was nominated for two Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay for RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, and Best […] ...

The Spanish-language thriller has dominated the 2025 nominations despite receiving a middling response from critics ...

I'm not going to waste too much time regurgitating all the ways that awards voters have bungled things, because I think it's common knowledge at this point that more often than not, the Oscars aren't ...

Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, now a feature film, is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. Originally broadcast July 16, 2019.