Colson Whitehead imagined the lives of black youth abused at a boys’ reformatory in Florida in his Pulitzer-prize winning 2019 novel, ‘The Nickel Boys’. Subjugation, not education ...

Yet with “Nickel Boys,” nominated this year for both best picture and best adapted screenplay, the photographer and filmmaker RaMell Ross has done just that. His previous film, the ...

Now, with Nickel Boys, his adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning novel, he has done something even more audacious. His reimagining of the novel wrestles with the weight of history in ...

Rhode Island School of Design graduate RaMell Ross’s movie “Nickel Boys” has been nominated for Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay at the Oscars. “Nickel Boys” is a story about two ...

Delving into a buried chapter of the Jim Crow-era South, Nickel Boys follows a bright young Black boy named Elwood (Ethan Herisse) who is wrongfully sent to a segregated reform school in Florida ...

RaMell Ross’s "Nickel Boys" is an Oscar-nominated film adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, inspired by the real-life horrors of the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys.

Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-Prize winning novel The Nickel Boys is fictionalized based on the Dozier School. Directed by RaMell Ross, Nickel Boys is an adaptation of Whitehead’s novel and ...

Nickel Boys was one of last year’s cinematic highlights (Uproxx named it one of 2024’s best movies), and a big part of that was the score from Alex Somers and Scott Alario. In fact ...

For years, the school’s dark history remained largely unknown, until it garnered national attention upon the release of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Nickel Boys.

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook This image is from the official trailer for "Nickel Boys” distributed by Amazon MGM Studios. In ...

But it hurts, especially when I know I have all that gold.” The director and the actor on the humor and pathos and tension and scary moments — sometimes all at once — in their prize-winning ...

“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 Sout ...