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RaMell Ross Wants $10 Million for Two Projects After ‘Nickel Boys': ‘It Has to Be Philanthropic Because It's Not Really a Return'
Ross made his feature narrative debut with Best Picture nominee "Nickel Boys." He's now looking to fund his next work.
‘Nickel Boys’ director RaMell Ross seeking $10 million investment for next two projects: “It has to be philanthropic”
Nickel Boys' director RaMell Ross knows what his next two projects are, but says he’ll need financial backers who are willing to not recoup their investment.
How RaMell Ross shifted from a Georgetown guard to an Oscar-nominated director
Ross will always love basketball. He didn't know that love eventually would pivot to creating award-winning stories through film.
Oscar-nominee RaMell Ross on ‘Nickel Boys’ and telling stories through a Black lens
RaMell Ross on the Oscar-nominated “Nickel Boys” and why the film’s impact matters more to him than trophies. “Nickel Boys”
Filmmaker and Brown scholar RaMell Ross nets another Oscar nomination with ‘Nickel Boys’
Five years after his first Academy Award nomination, Ross earned a second for his film about a notorious Florida reformatory school, which stars Brown alumni Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Daveed Diggs.
‘Nickel Boys' Director RaMell Ross Looking Ahead to Next Projects | Oscars 2025
Nickel Boys director RaMell Ross and producer Joslyn Barnes chat with THR at the Oscars red carpet and Ross talks about how he plans to lean into his activism at tonight’s ceremony. Plus, he says he’s looking for someone to give $10 million for his next two projects.
'Nickel Boys' is nominated for two Oscars, and its director is a RISD grad
Rhode Island School of Design graduate RaMell Ross’s movie “Nickel Boys” has been nominated for two Oscars at the 97th Academy Awards.
“Nickel Boys” co-writer/director RaMell Ross shares funny award season story
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‘Nickel Boys,’ an Oscar Nominee With a Jarringly Different Point of View
RaMell Ross subverts our gaze, breaking the conventional frame in “Nickel Boys” as he did in his documentary “Hale County ...
RaMell Ross: You ‘Don’t Need a Lot of Money to Make a Film That’s Cinematic and Deserves to Be in Theaters’
Nickel Boys' director RaMell Ross told IndieWire at the 2025 Film Indendent Spirit Awards that 'audiences have no idea what ...
Filmmaker RaMell Ross’s Black History Month Guide to Contemporary Art
Filmmaker RaMell Ross may be a practitioner and admirer of visual art, but in cinema, he strives for the effect of poetry.
What to stream: The Oscars with Conan O'Brien, Kate Hudson in 'Running Point' and 'Nickel Boys'
The Oscars telecast hosted by Conan O'Brien and Kate Hudson playing a pro basketball team president in a new Netflix series ...
Nickel Boys Review: RaMell Ross’ visceral racist reform school-set film is one of the year’s staggering achievements
The Oscar-nominated adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s novel revitalizes the medium itself, pushing how trauma, memory and history can be represented ...
Start the week with a film: ‘Nickel Boys’ erases the distance between character and viewer
RaMell Ross’s Nickel Boys uses an inventive technique to reveal just how deeply felt racism is. The Oscar-nominated film deploys a first-person approach, in which the experiences of two Black ...
Best-Picture nominee Nickel Boys brings the Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel about youth detention to life
Watching Nickel Boys is like slipping on a virtual-reality headset as it tells the story literally through the eyes of a Black teenager wrongfully imprisoned in 1960s Florida.
My favorite Best Picture Oscar nominee is streaming now — and it’s got 90% on Rotten Tomatoes
Altogether, that avant-garde approach makes for an incredibly stirring watch, one that has clearly had a lasting effect on viewers and critics alike. "Nickel Boys" currently boasts a 90% approval ...