‘Nickel Boys’ Screenwriters RaMell Ross And Joslyn Barnes To Receive WGA West’s Paul Selvin Award
deadline.comRaMell Ross and Joslyn Barnes will receive the Writers Guild of America West’s 2025 Paul Selvin Award for their work as the screenwriters of , the Amazon MGM Studios drama they adapted from Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer-winning book.
The honor will be bestowed during the guild’s WGA Awards on February 15 at the Beverly Hilton. The award, named for the former WGAW general counsel and given each year to a member or members whose script best embodies the spirit of the constitutional and civil rights and liberties, is the latest for the film and the duo.
Ross made his narrative feature directorial debut for with the pic, which was nominated for a pair of Oscars: for the screenplay and for Best Picture.
Nickel Boys follows Elwood Curtis (Ethan Herisse), a high school student wrongfully convicted of a crime and sent to the Nickel Academy reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida, where he befriends Turner (Brandon Wilson), another ward of the state.
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