"Nickel Boys" is based on a novel by the same name, about boys sent to the fictional "Nickel Academy" in Florida's panhandle, where they suffered horrific abuse. The details of the story were inspired ...

The cinematographer and camera operator behind the Oscar-nominated film — shot almost entirely from the first-person ...

Mr. Earl survives but doesn't return to Nickel and is replaced by someone who is crueler to the boys and beats Elwood during his second visit to the White House. This article originally appeared ...

A 2012 NPR story highlighted the “White House Boys,” a group of hundreds of men sharing horror stories about the goings-on in Dozier. Mass graves were also found on the site. “Nickel Boys ...

Nickel Boys, directed by RaMell Ross, has received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Nickel (standing in for the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, where more than 50 unmarked graves were discovered in 2012) is a cloistered camp where the white kids laugh and play football, biding ...

In “Nickel Boys,” RaMell Ross reinvents ... Other characters rarely meet our gaze: a White prison trusty (Fred Hechinger) with whom the boys resell the academy’s supplies to local merchants ...

And yet, with “Nickel Boys,” filmmaker RaMell Ross not only ... “You’re lucky to be in Nickel,” a younger white employee (Fred Hechinger) says to Elwood early on. He’s just received ...

The boy’s future slams shut in an instant, while another, tougher future opens up. At the notorious state-run Nickel Academy, white boys live in one set of conditions, while the Black boys ...

Suddenly, an innocent mistake lands Elwood at the notorious Nickel Academy, a violent reform school where Black boys like him are met with very different treatment than their white counterparts.

A daring visual approach powers a gorgeous film about an ugly chapter in history.