Amazon MGM Studios’ Nickel Boys gained a number one six awards Monday on the Black Reel Awards, together with the group’s marquee Excellent Movie Award and Excellent Director for RaMell Ross.
The awards, celebrating their twenty fifth version, honors the 12 months’s greatest in Black cinematic excellence, had been handed out Monday in a digital ceremony.
Nickel Boys, tailored from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and nominated for the Greatest Image and Tailored Screenplay Oscars, additionally gained tonight for Excellent Screenplay, Excellent Rising Director, Excellent First Screenplay and Excellent Cinematography.
Netflix’s The Piano Lesson gained 4 awards together with Excellent Supporting Efficiency for Danielle Deadwyler, Excellent Ensemble, Excellent Hairstyling & Make-up and Excellent Manufacturing Design.
Different notable winners tonight included Laborious Truths star Marianne Jean-Baptiste, who gained the gender-neutral Excellent Lead Efficiency award. The Mike Leigh movie additionally gained Excellent Worldwide Movie.
Right here’s the complete checklist of 2025 winners:
OUTSTANDING FILM
Nickel Boys
Joslyn Barnes, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner & David Levin, producers
OUTSTANDING LEAD PERFORMANCE
Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Laborious Truths
OUTSTANDING DIRECTOR
RaMell Ross
Nickel Boys
OUTSTANDING SUPPORTING PERFORMANCE
Danielle Deadwyler
The Piano Lesson
OUTSTANDING SCREENPLAY
Nickel Boys
RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes
OUTSTANDING DOCUMENTARY
Luther: By no means Too A lot
Daybreak Porter, director
OUTSTANDING INTERNATIONAL FILM
Laborious Truths
United Kingdom
OUTSTANDING ENSEMBLE
The Piano Lesson
Lindsay Graham & Mary Vernieu, casting administrators
OUTSTANDING VOICE PERFORMANCE
Lupita Nyong’o
The Wild Robotic
OUTSTANDING INDEPENDENT FILM
We Grown Now
Minhal Baig, director
OUTSTANDING SHORT FILM
Chocolate With Sprinkles
Huriyyah Muhammad, director
OUTSTANDING SCORE
The Wild Robotic
Kris Bowers, composer
OUTSTANDING ORIGINAL SONG
“The Journey” from The Six Triple Eight
H.E.R., performer; Diane Warren, author
OUTSTANDING SOUNDTRACK
Depraved
OUTSTANDING EMERGING DIRECTOR
RaMell Ross
Nickel Boys
OUTSTANDING BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Clarence Maclin
Sing Sing
OUTSTANDING FIRST SCREENPLAY
Nickel Boys
RaMell Ross
OUTSTANDING CINEMATOGRAPHY
Nickel Boys
Jomo Fray, cinematographer
OUTSTANDING COSTUME DESIGN
Depraved
Paul Tazewell, costume designer
OUTSTANDING EDITING
We Grown Now
Stephanie Filo, editor
OUTSTANDING HAIRSTYLING & MAKEUP
The Piano Lesson
Andrea ‘Mona’ Bowman & Para Shardé Malden
OUTSTANDING PRODUCTION DESIGN
The Piano Lesson
David J. Bomba (manufacturing designer), Chardae Adams (artwork director) & Patrick Cassidy (set decorator)
