The USC Libraries have unveiled the finalists for the 37th-annual Scripter Awards, spotlighting the writers behind 2024’s ...

The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in that square is clearly through a child’s eyes as ...

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 ...

A director whose early work focused on rural Alabama is now being recognized for a recent movie of his with major Oscar buzz. “Nickel Boys,” an ...

RaMell Ross, A.V. Rockwell, Raven Jackson and Garrett Bradley are the new Black directors chronicling Black life at a ...

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Colson Whitehead's The Nickel Boys has been adapted for the big screen. In 2019, Whitehead spoke with Dave Davies when the book was released. It's set in the early '60s ...

RaMell Ross uses an unconventional approach in his take on Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about two Black ...

Set in 1962 Tallahassee but filmed in late 2022 in Hammond, LaPlace, New Orleans, Ponchatoula and Thibodaux, it’s inspired by ...

Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, now a feature film, is based on a notorious Florida reform school where boys were beaten and sexually abused. Originally broadcast July 16, 2019.

The astonishingly beautiful opening moments of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys” signal that this is no ordinary movie. The screen format is an unexpectedly old-school square, and what we see in ...

A day after this story aired and was published online, “Nickel Boys” was nominated for two Oscars: Best Adapted Screenplay for RaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes, and Best […] ...