“Nickel Boys” leads the nominations at the 25th annual Black Reel Awards, a ceremony exclusively dedicated to recognizing African American contributions to cinema. 
	The Amazon MGM Studios film garnered 13 nominations, followed closely by Netflix’s “The Piano Lesson” with 12; both films were nominated for outstanding film and outstanding director (RaMell Ross and Malcolm Washington, respectively), plus their stars (“Nickel Boys” trio Ethan Heris…

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RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys and Malcolm Washington’ The Piano Lesson dominated the nominations for the 25th Black Reel Awards with 13 and 12 noms, respectively. The films will square off in 10 categories including Outstanding Film, Director, Screenplay and Ensemble. Titus Kaphar’s Exhibiting Forgiveness is next with nine nominations, followed by Zoë Kravitz’s Blink Twice […]

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The “Nickel Boys” Director RaMell Ross on Making the Most Haunting Scene

As filmmakers RaMell Ross and Coralie Fargeat made two of the most visually striking films of the year, it only made sense to pair them up for the latest installment of TheWrap’s longform video series Visionaries. With “Nickel Boys,” Ross shot the Colson Whitehead adaptation from a first-person POV, allowing viewers to see the events unfold through each character — literally. The unique cinematography offers an intimate, striking take on the sto…

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RaMell Ross and Coralie Fargeat Talk 'Nickel Boys,' 'The Substance' and Using the Camera as 'The Eye of Society'

At one point in Nickel Boys, Elwood, a young Black boy in Civil Rights-era Florida, glimpses Martin Luther King Jr. in front of a supermarket and takes off, running across the middle of the street to greet him. Turner, his best friend, chases behind him. When he catches Elwood, he asks him what’s wrong. Elwood smiles, bashful. Turner looks over to see a cardboard cut-out of MLK. We’ve encountered the preacher multiple times in the film – on a vi…

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RaMell Moss’ Nickel Boys and Malcolm Washington’ The Piano Lesson dominated the nominations for the 25th Black Reel Awards with 13 and 12 noms, respectively. The films will square off in 10 categories including Outstanding Film, Director, Screenplay and

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Director Coralie Fargeat withdraws her film from the Camerimage festival due to “misogynistic” remarks made by the director of the event. French director Coralie Fargeat has decided to withdraw her film The Substance from the Polish Camerimage festival, due to comments deemed “misogynistic” by the director of the event, Marek Żydowicz, which go against the feminist message of her film. This radical decision follows the latter's “highly misogynis…

La réalisatrice Coralie Fargeat retire son film du festival Camerimage en raison de propos « misogynes » tenus par le directeur de l’événement. La réalisatrice française Coralie Fargeat a décidé de retirer son film The Substance du festival polonais Camerimage, en raison des propos jugés « misogynes » par le directeur de l’événement, Marek Żydowicz, qui vont à l’encontre du message féministe de son film. Cette décision radicale fait suite aux co…

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Cinema — “The Substance”: Coralie Fargeat withdraws her film from a film festival after the controversial remarks of its director

We built an image-based treatment as an edit of the film to explore how Elwood and Turner see the world differently. Then we populated it with the necessary language to convey certain moments. We worked with this idea called adjacent imagery - imagery that's not solely plot-driven. It has a sort of experiential, metaphoric, and symbolic resonance so that it's not so utilitarian.

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