Based on a true story, the drama follows two young Black men who befriend one another inside a segregated reform school.

After the news of Nickel Boys’s two Oscar nominations (Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay), we’re revisiting this interview with Nickel Boys star Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, which was originally ...

The director RaMell Ross narrates a sequence from his film, which is shot from the point of view of its characters. The movie is nominated for best picture.

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor gives an award-worthy performance in "Nickel Boys." She got an Oscar nomination for King Richard," but ...

The 'Nickel Boys' actress specializes in supporting roles that steal the spotlight: “If we only know the figurehead and we ...

Oscar-nominated actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor considers Mississippi her home, and her latest theatrical release ... Ross’s "Nickel Boys," from Orion Pictures. Courtesy of Orion Pictures That ...

For Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, an Oscar nominee as the mother of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams in “King Richard,” that was unexpected. Yet, Ellis-Taylor, 54, revealed in a Zoom ...

justice in ‘Nickel Boys’, and her family’s connection to the Jim Crow South Actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor discusses her emotionally restrained performances and her latest role in ‘Nickel Boys’, where ...

Behind every great man, as the old, outdated expression goes, there’s a great woman — and there’s a pretty decent chance she’s been played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor. “If we only know the ...