SUGARCANE Gets Oscar® Nomination for Best Documentary Feature

SUGARCANE (Full Frame 2024), directed by Emily Kassie and Julian Brave NoiseCat, is Oscar® nominated for Best Documentary Feature. The film chronicles an investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school and has had a profound impact since being released last year. Notably, a White House screening in the fall of 2024 prompted President Biden to formally apologize for the federal government’s role in supporting the residential schools.
SUGARCANE’s film team won the Directing Award for the U.S Documentary category at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, the CDS Filmmaker Award at the 2024 Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and was a 2024 Cinema Eye Honoree.
The film is available to stream on Hulu and Disney+.

RaMell Ross, a member of Full Frame’s National Advisory Board, received two Academy Award® nominations for NICKEL BOYS, including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. Ross curated the festival’s Thematic Program—”Some Other Lives of Time”— in 2019, the same year he was nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Oscar® for HALE COUNTY THIS MORNING, THIS EVENING (Full Frame 2018).
An adaptation of a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, NICKEL BOYS tells the story of the friendship between two Black teenagers navigating an infamous Florida reform school. New York Times critic Alissa Wilkinson listed Nickel Boys as one of the top ten films of 2024.
Winners will be announced at the 97th Academy Awards ceremony on March 2, 2025 at the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles.