Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross explains his decision to film the movie point-of-view style and reveals how he found the perfect cast.

Nickel Boys adaptation explores the dark story of Elwood Curtis. How does the film's bold approach measure up to the Colson Whitehead novel?

The Nickel Boys dramatises the real-life history of a segregated reform school in the segregated Jim Crow South: a front for coerced labour and scene of abuse.

Nickel Boys uses the unconventional filming technique of orienting the film in the first person. Switching perspectives between Elwood and Turner, the pain, loss, and sadness are felt directly by the ...

It’s told, for the first 45 minutes or so, from Elwood’s perspective, and then it switches to Turner’s perspective, then back and forth, shot through both of their POVs. It’s a daring gamble, a ...

RaMell Ross subverts our gaze again, as he did with the documentary “Hale County This Morning, This Evening,” another Academy Award contender.

Elwood’s idealistic optimism and his precious, loving bond with his grandmother, played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, serves to raise Turner’s spirits on his cynical outlook while Turner’s knowledge on ...

Hattie, Elwood’s grandmother, is a deeply grounding presence in Nickel Boys, offering her grandson unwavering love and stability despite the harsh realities of life in the Jim Crow South.

It’s clear that “Nickel Boys” is handcrafted with love and respect, offering the real-life victims the dignity that they’ve always deserved.

‘Nickel Boys’ Writer-Director RaMell Ross Talks Reinventing a Point of View Ross walks THR through a protagonist POV scene in which Elwood, the film’s main character, first catches a glimpse ...

Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys” describes the story of Elwood Curtis’ time in a juvenile reformatory school in the 1960s. Although Nickel was not a real school, it was based on a the Dozier School for ...

But perspective is an aspect of "Nickel Boys" that makes it such an unusual viewing experience. The camera almost exclusively takes the point-of-view of either Elwood or Turner.