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.'
Best Picture Oscar Nominee ‘Nickel Boys’ Gets Streaming Premiere Date
Nickel Boys”—director Ramell Ross’ drama that earned a 2025 Best Picture Oscar nomination—is coming soon to streaming video on demand. Find out when you can watch the movie at home.
How his basketball past shaped RaMell Ross’s viewpoint in ‘Nickel Boys’
As a guard at Lake Braddock High and Georgetown University, RaMell Ross had to have vision. The same holds true for his career in film.
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.
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
How 'Nickel Boys' will shift your point of view
“Nickel Boys” — first a novel by Colson Whitehead, now the feature narrative debut of filmmaker RaMell Ross — tackles a lot of heavy subjects. Institutional racism in the Jim Crow South. Systemic abuse and corruption of the carceral system. Lost innocence of youth.
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' 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 ...
What’s in Our Queue? ‘The Nickel Boys’ and More
I am a photo editor for the International desk. I’m starting the year off by diving into some “serious” watches and reads.
'Nickel Boys,' movie based on Marianna's Dozier School, nominated for Best Picture Oscar
A movie based on north Florida's shuttered Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys has received two Oscar nominations for the 2025 ...
'Nickel Boys' Earns Way More Than a Dime at the Domestic Box Office After Best Picture Nomination
O ver two months after its theatrical debut, the acclaimed drama Nickel Boys saw a major increase in its theatrical footprint ...
How ‘Nickel Boys’ Achieved Its Singular Visual Style
The cinematographer and camera operator behind the Oscar-nominated film — shot almost entirely from the first-person ...
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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 ...
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Review: ‘Nickel Boys’ reaffirms subjective storytelling’s political power
An aging Elwood Curtis (Daveed Diggs) jumps between browser tabs in his New York apartment, pouring over news articles about ...
Samuel L. Jackson & Daveed Diggs Set For Hitman Thriller From Director Ernest Dickerson; WME Independent Launching For EFM
EXCLUSIVE: Samuel L. Jackson (The Piano Lesson)and Daveed Diggs (Nickel Boys) are set to star in a new hitman thriller from ...