(Toronto) Nickel Boys won three of the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA)’s most prestigious awards on Sunday night.
Posted at 12:15 p.m.
Nicole Thompson
The Canadian Press
The story of two black boys sent to a reformatory in Jim Crow-era Florida won best picture, while RaMell Ross won best director and best adapted screenplay, which he shared with co-writer Joslyn Barnes.
The film based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead will be released in Canadian theaters next month.
The awards for Best Lead Performance went to Marianne Jean-Baptiste for her portrayal of an angry woman navigating life and family in Two sistersand to Mikey Madison, who plays a sex worker who falls in love with a client in Anora.
Meanwhile, Yuri Borissov won Best Supporting Performance for his portrayal of the debauched son of a Russian oligarch in Anora and Kieran Culkin received the same award for A real painin which he plays a free-spirited traveler on a journey to Poland with his more serious cousin to honor the memory of their Holocaust survivor grandmother.
The TFCA voted on the winners at a meeting Sunday evening, during which it also chose the Canadian nominees who will receive their awards at a ceremony in February.
Rumors, Shepherds et A universal language are in the running for the best Canadian film award, while Live and let live: the voice of Jackie Shane, yintah et Your Tomorrow are in the running for the best Canadian documentary prize.
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