Nickel Boys’ preserves Colson Whitehead’s critically acclaimed narrative style while adding cinematic texture that enhances key details of the book.

Ellis-Taylor and the crafts team talk creating her indelible performance as an anguished grandmother in RaMell Ross' ...

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Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is based on the harrowing true story of a hellish reform school, Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida, at which more than 100 ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. ‘Nickel Boys’ director and co-writer RaMell Ross says the film’s nomination is an added bonus to ...

RaMell Ross ’ “ Nickel Boys ” unearths the haunting realities of two boys, Elwood (Ethan Herisse) and Turner (Brandon Wilson) ...

In adapting Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Nickel Boys,” director RaMell Ross faced what he calls a ...

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys, is based on the harrowing true story of a hellish reform school, Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys in Florida, at which more than ...

Instead even physically setting on the path to further education sends him tumbling backwards, as a chance lift in a stolen car makes him a Nickel boy. Narrative identity is crucial to Whitehead’s ...

“Nickel Boys,” the Colson Whitehead adaptation from director RaMell Ross, won best film from the prestigious National Society of Film Critics on Saturday. Jomo Fray’s cinematography was also ...