How RaMell Ross made best picture nominee ‘Nickel Boys’ as ‘visceral’ as real life
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.'
Brad Pitt Talks to Director RaMell Ross About How His Basketball Career Unexpectedly Influenced ‘Nickel Boys’
Exclusive: See Oscar-winning actor and producer Brad Pitt discuss Best Picture nominee 'Nickel Boys' with writer/director RaMell Ross.
‘The way we shot the film is point of view, which means that the audience is the character’: RaMell Ross on ‘Nickel Boys’
The director of the Academy Award-nominated adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel sees his movie as a chance to touch the inner lives of young men who suffered the cruelty of the Jim Crow South
RaMell Ross on ‘Nickel Boys’; Arianne Phillips talks dressing Chalamet as Dylan
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.’ Yvonne Villarreal is a senior television writer for the Calendar section and co-host of “The Envelope” podcast.
RaMell Ross reimagines Blackness’s aesthetic in Nickel Boys
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 world’s complexity through a lens that challenges conventional storytelling.
Nickel Boys: RaMell Ross's portrait of the harsh life in a US reform school is a surprise Oscars contender
A tale of two black teenagers coping with the harrowing environment of a US reform school in the 1960s is up for best picture and best adapted screenplay at the Academy Awards.
Post Pitch: On Georgetown alum RaMell Ross’ Oscar nominated film “Nickel Boys”
This week, the Voice’s podcast editor Katie Reddy interviews our writer, Hailey Wharram, about her conversation with Georgetown alum Ramell Ross and his Oscar nominated film Nickel Boys. Tune in to hear the two discuss the film’s origins and to learn more about Ross himself.
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, RaMell Ross talk 'Nickel Boys'
Actress Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and director RaMell Ross discuss the Oscar-nominated film, “Nickel Boys.” The Grammy-winning country star and South Carolina native announced the news in an Instagram post on Thursday, Jan. 30
“Nickel Boys” is a viscerally empathetic film that invents a new language of film form
The most impressive feat a film can pull off is to convince its viewers they are seeing something wholly original. Even more impressive is when a film can accomplish this while adapting a work, making it definitionally unoriginal.
'Nickel Boys' Remains Lowest-Grossing Best Picture Nominee Despite Passing Domestic Box Office Milestone
Based on Colson Whitehead's novel and directed by RaMell Ross, Best Picture nominee Nickel Boys isn't faring well at the box office.
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Review: 'Nickel Boys' pushes the limits of how cinema can tell stories
"Nickel Boys" tells the story of two African American boys at an abusive reform school. Through an exploration of identity ...
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Review: “Nickel Boys” is an intimate and potent masterpiece
Oscar season might have crowned Brady Corbet as the new “great American director” for his ambitiously sprawling “The Brutalist,” but with Nickel Boys — his adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer ...