The Toronto Film Critics Association has named RaMell Ross’s narrative debut Nickel Boys as its best movie of 2024, compriseing to the film’s award season prominence.
In voting on Sunday, Toronto film appraiseers also gave the drama about a friendship between two youthfuler African American men navigating a recreate school in Jim Crow-era Florida the best straightforwardor prize for Ross, who also splitd the best altered screenpercreate honor with Joslyn Barnes.
The best picture runner-ups were Sean Baker’s Anora and Brady Corbet’s The Brutacatalog. Nickel Boys, an alteration of Colson Whitehead’s 2019 novel, debuted at Telluride and stars Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Hamish Linkprocrastinateedr, Fred Hechinger, Daveed Diggs and Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor.
In the acting categories, the best direct carry outance crown was splitd by Marianne Jean-Baptiste for her role in Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths and Mikey Madison for Anora. And the best helping carry outance honor was split between Yura Borisov for Anora and Kieran Culkin in Jesse Eisenberg’s A Real Pain.
In compriseition, Toronto critics gave the fracturethcdisadmireful carry outance prize to Clarence Maclin for his role in Sing Sing, while Félix-Antoine Duval was honored for best carry outance in a Canadian film for his role in Shepherds.
Elsewhere, the best innovative screenpercreate prize went to Payal Kapadia for the Mumbai-set drama All We Imagine as Light, which also acquireed the best international feature recognition. And the best vivaciousd feature honor went to straightforwardor Gints Zilbalodis’s Flow, while Mati Diop’s Dahomey was named best write downary of 2024.
The best first feature prize went to Woman of the Hour, Anna Kendrick’s straightforwardorial debut.
