Award season highlighted diverse films like Anora and The Brutalist, showcasing visionary filmmakers and craft experts who helped redefine storytelling – and reminded us why we need it – through cinematography, editing and design. The irony on Academy Award night was that once the Oscars settled on Anora as the night’s biggest winner, it actually capped an award season that … Read more
Nickel Boys cinematographer Jomo Fray’s technical achievement on Nickel Boys is recognised at the Critics Circle Awards and the film’s director RaMell Ross received the award for Director of the Year.  Brady Corbet’s immigrant epic The Brutalist took the top prize from the UK’s leading critics, as Conclave and A Real Pain all receive multiple awards, and Zoe Saldaña … Read more
POIGNANT PERSPECTIVE Kindred creative spirits director RaMell Ross and cinematographer Jomo Fray adopt a first- person perspective to immerse the audience in the powerful narrative of Nickel Boys while navigating how to make a film so precisely orchestrated feel free-flowing. When cinematographer Jomo Fray watched filmmaker and photographer RaMell Ross’s Oscar-nominated 2018 documentary Hale County … Read more
Mark London Williams kicks off 2025 with a deep dive into award-season contenders Nickel Boys and September 5, where personal narratives meet pivotal moments in history, along with a look at other hopeful contenders and Women In Media’s year-capping Holiday Toast, celebrating undersung Hollywood heroes. *Hours after this column was sent in, our correspondent Mark London … Read more
Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Colson Whitehead, Nickel Boys chronicles the powerful friendship between two young Black teenagers navigating the harrowing trials of reform school together in Florida. Elwood Curtis is on the cusp of adulthood, mere days away from attending his first college classes, when an innocent wrong -place/wrong-time misstep reroutes … Read more