When the filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross first read “The Nickel Boys,” Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two Black boys in a dangerous reform school in the 1960s ...
Mark, who did you have a chance to speak with this episode? Olsen: I spoke to RaMell Ross. He’s an Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker, but he’s made his fiction feature debut with “Nickel ...
RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes will receive the Writers Guild of America West’s 2025 Paul Selvin Award for their work as the screenwriters of Nickel Boys, the Amazon MGM Studios drama they ...
As the drama tightens in “Nickel Boys,” the Oscar-nominated adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, we see only what the protagonist, a Black teen named Elwood Curtis, sees ...
RaMell Ross: Pleasure is mine, man. Pleasure is mine. I haven’t seen anything like it. It’s so original. And I have some questions. I’d love to field them. I’d love to field them. Well, fi ...
Ross' Colson Whitehead adaptation, "Nickel Boys," has earned high critical praise, but when everyone gets to be a critic, it's hard not to want to push back. “I try to build language to combat ...
In our first episode back after the Oscar nominations, we chat with ‘Nickel Boys’ filmmaker RaMell Ross and costume designer Arianne Phillips of ‘A Complete Unknown.’ Mark Olsen writes ...
(L-R) Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson in 'Nickel Boys' Everett On Thursday, documentary filmmaker RaMell Ross scored his first feature film nomination—Ross was previously nominated in 2018 for ...
When RaMell Ross speaks about filmmaking, he doesn’t talk about entertainment or box office success. Instead, he describes his work as “knowledge production” – a means of engaging with the ...
RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes will receive the Writers Guild of America West’s 2025 Paul Selvin Award for their work as the screenwriters of Nickel Boys, the Amazon MGM Studios drama they adapted from ...
Pic: Orion Pictures In trying to give a voice to the voiceless, director RaMell Ross tells Sky News he made a conscious decision to shift the narrative away from the violence and instead shine the ...