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After his Amazon MGM film "Nickel Boys" got a Best Picture nomination, writer/director RaMell Ross is eyeing his next projects - but understands that funding could prove a hurdle. Ross told The ...
HOLLYWOOD, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 02: RaMell Ross attends the 97th Annual Oscars at Dolby Theatre on March 02, 2025 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by Mike Coppola/Getty Images) ...
It's through Elwood's perspective that we watch director RaMell Ross' "Nickel Boys"—that is until we are introduced to Turner (played by Brandon Wilson), who befriends Elwood at Nickel Academy ...
On Mar. 6, Screen/Society showed the acclaimed film “Nickel Boys” (2024) in the Ruby’s Film Theater. Directed by RaMell Ross and based on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of ...
fragments of which are shown diegetically in “Nickel Boys.” But there is nothing straightforward in this film version of Whitehead’s story, directed by Ramell Ross (his first feature ...
However, over the course of its 140 minutes, Nickel Boys unfurls numerous pathways into ... as the blank spaces between them — an approach Ross recreates not through absence, but through the ...
Director RaMell Ross, actors Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson, Daveed Diggs, and actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor take us inside the captivating new historical drama "The Nickel Boys." Based on the 2019 ...
Bearing the brunt of an innocent misstep, he’s sentenced to the netherworld of Nickel Academy, a brutal reformatory sunk deep in the Jim Crow South. He encounters another ward, the seen-it-all ...
and a post-film panel discussion with Academy Award® Nominated Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross, as well as forensic anthropologist Dr. Erin Kimmerle and journalist Ben Montgomery, whose ...