The African American Film Critics Association Awards returned to Beverly Wilshire on Wednesday to celebrate Black stories and diversity across cinema and the entertainment industry, honoring this year’s winners announced in December including its Best Picture winner Nickel Boys. Founded in 2003…

"I think about the film as a place to do, as I like to say, make an experiential monument," says Nickel Boys director/co-writer RaMell Ross of the Oscar-nominated the Florida-set Jim Crow-era drama adapted from Colson Whitehead's 2020 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. "To elevate…

In Nickel Boys, filmmaker and artist RaMell Ross has created one of the most surprising awards-season movies for some years. His radical approach to form and content is unlike anything usually campaigned for and championed in the mainstream. However, the film is precisely the type of work we've come…

Nickel Boys, which had its world premiere over Labor Day weekend in Telluride, has since gone on to critical acclaim and many awards, all leading to the Oscars, where in addition to its Best Picture recognition it is also up for Adapted Screenplay for director/co-writer RaMell Ross and…

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 Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning book. The honor will be bestowed during the guild’s WGA…

On Thursday, documentary filmmaker RaMell Ross scored his first feature film nomination—Ross was previously nominated in 2018 for his documentary film Hale County This Morning, This Evening—for Nickel Boys in Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. The historical drama, based on Colson Whitehead's…

Deadline’s Virtual Screening Series welcomed Orion Pictures / Amazon MGM Studios acclaimed awards contender Nickel Boys, with director/co-writer RaMell Ross and cinematographer Jomo Fray joining me for a screening followed by a Q&A. The film, which…

Deadline’s Read the Screenplay series spotlighting the scripts behind awards season’s buzziest film continues with Nickel Boys, the feature directing debut of Oscar-nominated Hale County This Morning, This Evening filmmaker RaMell Ross, who with longtime collaborator Joslyn Barnes adapted Colson…

Long drawn to filmmaking as an artistic medium cultivating “a radical form of empathy,” cinematographer Jomo Fray took that concept in an immersive new direction with Nickel Boys, the first narrative feature from Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker RaMell Ross. The drama for Amazon MGM’s Orion…

EXCLUSIVE: Sing Sing scored a leading four awards from the Black Film Critics Circle today including Best Film of 2024 and Best Actor for Colman Domingo. Wicked star Cynthia Erivo won Best Actress, and RaMell Ross took Best Director for Nickel Boys, which claimed three BFCC prizes. Sing Sing…

With just a few weeks left in 2024, notable films continue to land with Nickel Boys and The Last Showgirl officially jumping into awards season — the former already a two-time winner at the first stop, the Gotham Awards. A few big indie stories are yet to be told, with Babygirl and A Complete Unknown…

EXCLUSIVE: The Palm Springs Film Festival has booked its 2025 “Books to Screen” schedule. The event will host January Q&As with Conclave director Edward Berger, Nickel Boys helmer RaMell Ross, Queer screenwriter Justin Kuritzkes and Reading Lolita in Tehran director Eran Riklis, author Azar…