After his Amazon MGM film “Nickel boys“Has one Best image nominationAuthor/director Ramell Ross Seeing their next project – but understands that financing can prove an obstacle.
Told Ross Hollywood Reporter On Sunday’s Oscars who, after making his narrative debut with “Nickel Boys”, he knows that financing his Indians would be a “philanthropic” company due to a lack of guaranteed financial return. (“Nickel Boys”, for one, gathered just over $ 3.1 million all over the world allegedly $ 23 million budget.)
“I think I’ve done enough films to make people say I can do things relatively well,” Ross said. “So I ask someone to give me $ 10 million for two projects. Both, I think, have long cultural lives, but it must be philanthropic because it is not really a return. But I think they are deep in sense and can change many people’s views on the world. ”
He added both potential projects, “They are printed. I’ve been thinking about them for (five, six) years. We are just waiting for someone to trust the projects. “
Ross was the Oscar-nominated 2025 for best adapted script, along with its co-author and produced collaborator Joslyn Barnes, for the Colson Whitehead adaptation “Nickel Boys.” The film was produced by Plan B’s Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner, along with David Levine and Barnes, all Oscar nominees for best image for “Nickel Boys.” Ross and Barnes were nominated for best documentary function 2019 for “Hale County this morning, tonight”, which Ross directed.
Ross received the author award at the 2024 indieWire awards Event, and IndieWire considered Ross’ “Nickel boys” Best movie 2024 last year.
Meanwhile Ross told indifire At 2025 Film Independent Spirit Awards, where “Nickel Boys” was nominated for the best feature and best film, which he hopes Hollywood will support more risk -taking features.
“I think we should be afraid that things continue as they are, and we should hope for new models and paradigms and more risk and a more generous assessment of relationships between return and bit, work,” Ross said. “It would be nice if they could be a little more different so that the work is not reduced to communicate, it is actually made more complex, to mystify. It does not necessarily make money. ”
He continued, “It is strange as a large budget does not necessarily mean theater publishing anymore. I don’t think you need a lot of money to make a movie that is cinematic and deserves to be in theaters, but people feel that there is a certain quality of production that you need. When trade unions record inflated budget. I don’t have the answers. “
