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

Based on Colson Whitehead’s “The Nickel Boys,” the film sounds on the surface like it might be difficult to watch, and indeed ...

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 ...

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 ...

This is a story of the survival and friendship of two Black boys amidst one of the true horrors of the Jim Crow south and a racist reform school.

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 ...

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.

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 […] ...