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.

The cinematographer and camera operator behind the Oscar-nominated film — shot almost entirely from the first-person ...

"Nickel Boys," which received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay, was shot almost entirely in the ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

The astonishingly beautiful opening moments of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” signal that this is no ordinary movie. The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in ...

Deadline’s Virtual Screening Series welcomed MGM-Orion-Plan B’s acclaimed awards contender Nickel Boys, with ...

Since attending an advanced screening of “Nickel Boys” in mid-November, I’ve seen numerous headlines and quotes touting its ...

chose to keep most of the violence in Nickel Boys offscreen. (Vivian Rashotte/CBC) But the other was about removing complications from the story. While the Dozier report and book looked straight ...

RaMell Ross dove into Nickel ... The Nickel Boys for the screen without too much additional research. That's not to say he didn't look into it: he pointed to a previous non-fiction book ...

Is it possible to capture a well-received book’s power without diluting it entirely? With his film “Nickel Boys” (2024), director RaMell Ross passes the adaptation test. Drawing from Colson ...