This is the real story behind the Oscar-nominated film Nickel Boys, a film inspired by a novel rooted in pain, horror and ...

Through immersive filming techniques, it also sheds light on the horrors that occurred at the Dozier School for Boys—a real-life reform school in Florida—while highlighting the resilience of the human ...

The Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, once the largest juvenile reform institution in the country, operated in Florida for 111 years. During that time, it became infamous for its horrific abuses ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — "Nickel Boys" is one of the films that may win this year's Best Picture award on Sunday at Hollywood's biggest night, the Oscars. However, to St. Petersburg resident ...

Dozier School for Boys. While the film powerfully conveys the trauma of two young Black men caught in an unjust and abusive system, it ultimately reduces the story to a racial morality tale ...

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is based on the harrowing true story of a hellish reform school, Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida, at which more than ...