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Till
Theatrical release poster
Directed byChinonye Chukwu
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyBobby Bukowski
Edited byRon Patane
Music byAbel Korzeniowski
Production
companies
Distributed by
Release dates
  • October 1, 2022 (2022-10-01) (NYFF)
  • October 14, 2022 (2022-10-14) (United States)
  • January 6, 2023 (2023-01-06) (United Kingdom)
Running time
130 minutes[1]
Countries
  • United Kingdom
  • United States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$20 million[2]
Box office$9.9 million[3][4]

Till is a 2022 biographical drama film directed by Chinonye Chukwu and written by Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp, and Chukwu, and produced by Beauchamp, Reilly, and Whoopi Goldberg. It is based on the true story of Mamie Till-Bradley, an educator and activist who pursued justice after the murder of her 14-year-old son Emmett in 1955. The film stars Danielle Deadwyler as Mamie Till-Bradley, with Jalyn Hall, Frankie Faison, Haley Bennett, and Goldberg in supporting roles.

The film was officially announced in August 2020, though a project about Emmett Till's murder had been in the works for several years prior. Much of the main cast joined the following summer, and filming took place in Bartow County, Georgia that fall. It is the second major media property based on Mamie Till to be released in 2022, following the television series Women of the Movement. The film is dedicated in memory of Mamie Till's life and legacy and its release coincided with the October 2022 unveiling of a statue in Emmett Till's memory in Greenwood, Mississippi.[5]

Till had its world premiere at the New York Film Festival on October 1, 2022, was theatrically released in the United States on October 14, 2022, by United Artists Releasing, and was released in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2023, by Universal Pictures. The film received positive reviews, with Deadwyler's performance garnering widespread acclaim, and was named one of the best films of 2022 by the National Board of Review.[6] It has grossed $9 million against a production budget of $20 million.[2]

Plot

Mamie Till becomes one of the leading educators and activists in the burgeoning Civil Rights Movement after her 14-year-old son, Emmett, is kidnapped by two men who left with Till after a person in a waiting car with a “lighter voice than a man’s” identified him as that boy. The movie portrays that the person in the car was Carolyn Bryant though this was never proven. Emmett was beaten, shot dead, and thrown into the Tallahatchie River with a 75lb cotton gin fan tied around his neck with barbed wire by white supremacists in 1955 for whistling at Bryant, while visiting his cousins in Money, Mississippi.[7] Mamie insists that the casket containing her son's brutalized body be left open to show the nation what they had done to him. The film is told entirely from her perspective; Emmett's murder is heard, but not shown in the film.[8]

Cast

Production

Chinonye Chukwu in New York City in 2019.
Writer and director Chinonye Chukwu

On August 27, 2020, it was announced that Chinonye Chukwu would write and direct a feature film based on the life of Mamie Till-Mobley and her fight for justice after the lynching of her 14-year-son, Emmett Till. Produced by Orion Pictures, the film uses 27 years' worth of research by Keith Beauchamp, whose efforts led to the reopening of Till's case by the United States Department of Justice in 2004. Simeon Wright, Till's cousin and an eyewitness of the event, served as a consultant to the project until his death in 2017. Chukwu's screenplay is based on a draft she previously co-wrote with Beauchamp and producer Michael Reilly.[13] In July 2021, Danielle Deadwyler and Whoopi Goldberg joined the cast.[9] Jalyn Hall was cast as Emmett Till that August.[10] Filming began in Bartow County, Georgia, in September 2021.[14] By the end of the year, Frankie Faison, Jayme Lawson, Tosin Cole, Kevin Carroll, Sean Patrick Thomas, John Douglas Thompson, Roger Guenveur Smith, and Haley Bennett were confirmed to star.[11][12]

During post-production, the musical score was composed by Abel Korzeniowski.[15]

Release

The film received a limited release in the United States on October 14, 2022 and Canada on October 21, 2022, before a wide release on October 28, 2022, by United Artists Releasing under the Orion Pictures label.[16] Outside of the US, it will be distributed by Universal Pictures,[17] including its release in the United Kingdom on January 6, 2023. The film premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 1, 2022, and was screened at the London Film Festival on October 15, 2022, and at the 31st Philadelphia Film Festival that same month.[18][7][19] The distributor also invited high school students to special screenings of the film in New York's Alice Tully Hall; showings of the film and questionnaires with the filmmakers were simultaneously shared online.[20]

The film was released for VOD platforms on November 22, 2022, followed by a Blu-ray and DVD release set for January 17, 2023.[21]

Reception

Box office

In the United States and Canada, the film made $242,269 from 16 theaters in its opening weekend.[22][23] It held this record as the highest platform release opening of the year until The Whale two months later.[24] In its second weekend the film made $363,541 from 104 theaters.[25] Expanding to 2,058 theaters in its third weekend, the film made $1.03 million on its first day[26] and would go on to gross $2.7 million over the weekend, finishing sixth.[27] In its second weekend of wide release the film made $1.88 million (marking a drop of 32%).[28] Variety attributed these results to the general public showing the early stages of refusal to see and support prestige films in theaters in a moviegoing environment altered by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with the possibility that the film's subject matter may have been seen as uncomfortable for audiences to handle.[29]

Critical response

Danielle Deadwyler's performance as Mamie Till garnered widespread acclaim.

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 98% of 170 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 8/10. The website's consensus reads: "Till reframes an historically horrific murder within a mother's grief, brought heartwrenchingly to life by Danielle Deadwyler's tremendous performance."[30] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 79 out of 100, based on 48 critics, indicating "generally favorable" reviews.[31] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film a rare average grade of "A+", and those at PostTrak gave the film a 91% overall positive score, with 87% saying they definitely would recommend it.[26]

Accolades

Award Date of ceremony Category Recipient(s) Result Ref.
Hollywood Music in Media Awards November 16, 2022 Best Original Score in a Feature Film Abel Korzeniowski Nominated [32]
Best Original Song in a Feature Film Jasmine Sullivan and D'Mile ("Stand Up") Nominated
Gotham Independent Film Awards November 28, 2022 Outstanding Lead Performance Danielle Deadwyler Won [33]
National Board of Review December 8, 2022 Top Ten Films Till Won [34]
Best Breakthrough Performance Danielle Deadwyler Won1
Los Angeles Film Critics Association December 11, 2022 Best Lead Performance Runner-up [35]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association December 12, 2022 Best Actress Nominated [36]
Best Youth Performance Jalyn Hall Nominated
Chicago Film Critics Association December 14, 2022 Most Promising Performer Danielle Deadwyler Nominated [37]
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association December 18, 2022 Best Actress Nominated [38]
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association December 19, 2022 Best Actress 4th place [39]
Florida Film Critics Circle December 22, 2022 Best Actress Nominated [40]
Alliance of Women Film Journalists January 5, 2023 Best Actress Nominated [41]
Most Daring Performance Nominated
Best Woman's Breakthrough Performance Won
Best Woman Director Chinoye Chukwu Nominated
San Diego Film Critics Society January 6, 2023 Best Actress Danielle Deadwyler Won [42]
Best Breakthrough Artist Runner-up
Best Original Screenplay Keith Beauchamp, Chinonye Chukwu and Michael Reilly Nominated
Best Youth Performance Jalyn Hall Runner-up
Toronto Film Critics Association January 8, 2023 Best Actress Danielle Deadwyler Runner-up [43]
San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle January 9, 2023 Best Actress Nominated [44]
Austin Film Critics Association January 10, 2023 Best Actress Nominated [45]
Georgia Film Critics Association January 13, 2023 Best Actress Nominated [46]
Oglethorpe Award for Excellence in Georgia Cinema Chinonye Chukwu, Michael Reilly, Keith Beauchamp Won
Critics' Choice Awards January 15, 2023 Best Actress Danielle Deadwyler Nominated [47]
Best Young Performer Jalyn Hall Nominated
Seattle Film Critics Society January 17, 2023 Best Actress in a Leading Role Danielle Deadwyler Nominated [48]
Online Film Critics Society January 23, 2023 Best Actress Nominated [49]
AARP Movies for Grownups Awards January 28, 2023 Best Intergenerational Film Chinonye Chukwu Won [50]
Best Time Capsule Chinonye Chukwu Nominated
Black Reel Awards February 6, 2023 Outstanding Motion Picture Keith Beauchamp, Barbara Broccoli, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Reilly and Thomas Levine Pending [51]
Outstanding Director Chinonye Chukwu Pending
Outstanding Actress Danielle Deadwyler Pending
Outstanding Breakthrough Performance, Male Jalyn Hall Pending
Outstanding Screenplay Keith Beauchamp, Michael Reilly, Chinonye Chukwu Pending
Outstanding Original Song "Stand Up" Pending
Outstanding Cinematography Bobby Bukowski Pending
Outstanding Costume Design Marci Rodgers Pending
Outstanding Ensemble Till Pending
Outstanding Soundtrack Pending
Outstanding Production Design Curtis Beech Pending
Make-Up Artists and Hair Stylists Guild February 11, 2023 Best Period Hair Styling and/or Character Hair Styling in a Feature-Length Motion Picture Denise Tunnell, Janice Tunnell, Ashley Langston Pending [52]
Satellite Awards February 11, 2023 Best Motion Picture – Drama Till Pending [53]
Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama Danielle Deadwyler Pending
Houston Film Critics Society February 18, 2023 Best Picture Till Pending [54]
Best Actress Danielle Deadwyler Pending
Best Original Song "Stand Up" Pending
British Academy Film Awards February 19, 2023 Best Actress in a Leading Role Danielle Deadwyler Pending [55]
Hollywood Critics Association Awards February 24, 2023 Best Actress Pending [56]
Screen Actors Guild Award February 26, 2023 Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role Danielle Deadwyler Pending [57]
NAACP Image Awards February 25, 2023 Outstanding Motion Picture Till Pending
Outstanding Directing in a Motion Picture Chinonye Chukwu Pending
Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture Danielle Deadwyler Pending
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture Jalyn Hill Pending
Denver Film Critics Society January 16, 2023 Best Actress Danielle Deadwyler Pending
  • ^1 — Shared with Gabriel LaBelle for The Fabelmans.

See also

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