RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys and Oscar

How RaMell Ross shifted from a Georgetown guard to an Oscar-nominated director
Ross will always love basketball. He didn't know that love eventually would pivot to creating award-winning stories through film.
‘Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Looking Ahead to Next Projects | Oscars 2025
Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross and producer Joslyn Barnes chat with THR at the Oscars red carpet and Ross talks about how he plans to lean into his activism at tonight’s ceremony. Plus, he says he’s looking for someone to give $10 million for his next two projects.
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 school, which stars Brown alumni Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Daveed Diggs.
'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 Academy Awards.
‘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 televisions broadcast Martin Luther King Jr.’s speech. Still living under the Jim Crow laws in Tallahassee,
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 experience. RaMell Ross crafts a slow-burn work of art, blending cinematography,
“Nickel Boys” co-writer/director RaMell Ross shares funny award season story
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How to Watch 'Nickel Boys' Before the Oscars Tonight
Nickel Boys” by filmmaker RaMell Ross is currently up for two awards at the 97th annual Oscars. Here’s how you can watch.
‘Nickel Boys,’ an Oscar Nominee With a Jarringly Different Point of View
RaMell Ross subverts our gaze, breaking the conventional frame in “Nickel Boys” as he did in his documentary “Hale County ...
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 ...
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 ...
Here’s Who Will Win at the 2025 Oscars
Keeping in mind the unusually diffuse nature of this year, here are my best guesses as to who will triumph in the eight most ...
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 ...
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.
Zeinabu Irene Davis On The 25-Year Journey To Release ‘Compensation’ & How The LA Rebellion Lives On Through Filmmakers Like RaMell Ross
The film follows deaf women, played by Michelle A. Banks, in two different time periods (the 1900s and the 1990s) who falls ...
Prime Video quietly adds one of this year's Best Picture contenders ahead of the Oscars
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