On Thursday, documentary filmmaker RaMell Ross scored his first feature film nomination—Ross was previously nominated in 2018 for his documentary film Hale County This Morning, This Evening—for Nickel ...

Nickel Boys, which received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, was shot almost entirely in the POV of boys in the fictitious Nickel, based on the real-life Dozier School ...

Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, "Nickel Boys" centers around the true events of the Dozier ...

A director whose early work focused on rural Alabama is now being recognized for a recent movie of his with major Oscar buzz. “Nickel Boys,” an ...

A day after this story aired and was published online, “Nickel Boys” was nominated for two Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay for RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, and Best […] ...

This is a story of the survival and friendship of two Black boys amidst one of the true horrors of the Jim Crow south and a racist reform school.

RaMell Ross uses an unconventional approach in his take on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two Black ...

I love that we’ve always lived longer than we’ve ever lived,” he told me in an interview for The Daily Californian. His new ...

Nickel Boys, directed by RaMell Ross, has received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Set in 1962 Tallahassee but filmed in late 2022 in Hammond, LaPlace, New Orleans, Ponchatoula and Thibodaux, it’s inspired by ...

Based on Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys,” the film sounds on the surface like it might be difficult to watch, and indeed ...

RaMell Ross’s magisterial adaptation of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Colson Whitehead, pointedly sets up its central ...