Nickel Boys’ Brandon Wilson: ‘There’s no logic to racial structures’
The rising star of the Oscar-nominated drama speaks to Lydia Spencer-Elliott about the ghosts of America’s past, his exciting ...
RaMell Ross: You ‘Don’t Need a Lot of Money to Make a Film That’s Cinematic and Deserves to Be in Theaters’
Nickel Boys' director RaMell Ross told IndieWire at the 2025 Film Indendent Spirit Awards that 'audiences have no idea what ...
These Films See People the Way They See Themselves
RaMell Ross subverts our gaze, breaking the conventional frame in “Nickel Boys” as he did in his documentary “Hale County ...
'Nickel Boys' is nominated for two Oscars, and its director is a RISD grad
Rhode Island School of Design graduate RaMell Ross’s movie “Nickel Boys” has been nominated for two Oscars at the 97th ...
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Filmmaker and Brown scholar RaMell Ross nets another Oscar nomination with ‘Nickel Boys’
Five years after his first Academy Award nomination, Ross earned a second for his film about a notorious Florida reformatory ...
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‘Nickel Boys’ review: RaMell Ross’s transcendent debut illuminates the mirage of progress
A young dreamer named Elwood Curtis stares intently at his Black reflection in an electronics shop window as a row of small ...
Nickel Boys Review: RaMell Ross’ visceral racist reform school-set film is one of the year’s staggering achievements
The Oscar-nominated adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel revitalizes the medium itself, pushing how trauma, memory and history can be represented ...
Start the week with a film: ‘Nickel Boys’ erases the distance between character and viewer
RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys uses an inventive technique to reveal just how deeply felt racism is. The Oscar-nominated film deploys a first-person approach, in which the experiences of two Black ...
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Two PureWow Editors Watched ‘Nickel Boys’ and Were Shaken to Their Core—Here's Their Candid Take
Senior Editor Dana Dickey and Associate Editor of News and Entertainment Nakeisha Campbell sit down to discuss their thoughts ...
Nickel Boys movie review: Style is the substance in RaMell Ross’s ‘Best Picture’ Oscar nominee
This Ethan Herisse, Brandon Wilson starrer is a haunting adaptation that rejects traditional storytelling for a visceral ...
Best-Picture nominee Nickel Boys brings the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel about youth detention to life
Watching Nickel Boys is like slipping on a virtual-reality headset as it tells the story literally through the eyes of a Black teenager wrongfully imprisoned in 1960s Florida.
RaMell Ross On North Florida, Doechii, And The Success Of ‘Nickel Boys’
Researchers from the University Of South Florida led the investigation on the school grounds and found numerous unmarked graves for unrecorded deaths, in addition to documentation that revealed ...