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 ...
It’s a motion picture that hits close to home. A story about two African American boys who were sent to an abusive reform school in Florida during the Jim Crow era.
"Nickel Boys" is based on a novel by the same name, about boys sent to the fictional "Nickel Academy" in Florida's panhandle, where they suffered horrific abuse. The details of the story were inspired ...