RaMell Ross

RaMell Ross is an American visual artist, filmmaker, writer, and documentarian. He holds a degree in sociology and English from Georgetown University and is a faculty member in the Visual Arts Department at Brown University. His work has been showcased in venues such as Aperture, the Hammer Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art, and the Walker Art Center. He has been awarded the Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship in photography. His experimental feature-length documentary, Hale County This Morning, This Evening, won the Special Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, received a Peabody Award in 2020, and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 2024, Ross directed Nickel Boys, a film adaptation of Colson Whitehead's novel, which was critically acclaimed.