RaMell Ross
RaMell Ross (b. 1982) is a writer, educator, and filmmaker who splits his time between Alabama and Rhode Island, where he teaches at Brown University. Ross is best known for his two of his films; the critically acclaimed documentary Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018) and the Oscar nominated Nickel Boys (2024). Hale County won a Special Jury Award for Creative Vision at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, was nominated for an Oscar at the 91st Academy Awards, and has screened at the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the National Gallery of Art (Washington, DC); the Hammer Museum (Los Angeles); the Institute of Contemporary Arts (London); Museum of Moving Image (New York); and Lincoln Center (New York). Nickel Boys was named “Best Film of 2024” by the Atlantic, The New York Times, The New Yorker, and Indie Wire, and was nominated for the Best Adapted Screen Play and Best Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. Ross was named 2024’s Best Director by both New York and London film critic circles.
His photography, for its part, has appeared in The New York Times, Aperture, Harper’s, TIME, and Oxford American, among others. In 2016, Ross was awarded an Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship and a Rhode Island Foundation MacColl Johnson artist fellowship. Photographs from his project, South County, AL (a Hale County) were the subject of a major solo exhibition at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art (New Orleans) in 2020. His work is in various permanent collections including the Museum of Modern Art (New York); the Virginia Museum of Fine Art (Virginia); the Ogden Museum (Louisiana); the Vic