Toronto Film Critics Association Awards: Nickel Boys leads [Video]

“Nickel Boys” won three of the top Toronto Film Critics Association Awards on Sunday night.

The story of two Black boys sent to a reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida was voted best picture, while RaMell Ross won best director and best adapted screenplay, which he shares with co-writer Joslyn Barnes.

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The film based on Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel will hit Canadian theatres next month.

Outstanding lead performance awards went to Marianne Jean-Baptiste for her portrayal of a short-tempered woman navigating life and family in “Hard Truths,” and Mikey Madison who plays a sex worker who falls for a client in “Anora.”

Meanwhile, Yura Borisov won outstanding supporting performance for his turn as the debaucherous son of a Russian oligarch in “Anora” and Kieran Culkin received the same award for “A Real Pain,” in which he plays a free-spirited traveller on a trip with his more serious cousin.

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