Toronto Film Critics Association | Nickel Boys wins three awards

(Toronto) Nickel Boys won three of the Toronto Film Critics Association (TFCA)’s most prestigious awards on Sunday night.

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.