RaMell Ross On Double ‘Nickel Boys’ Oscar Nominations: “People Are Responding To The Adventure Of Complexity And The Vicarious”

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 Boys in Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. The historical drama, based on Colson Whitehead’s book of the same name, chronicles the deep friendship between two teenagers