One of the year’s best movies was filmed in first person

When RaMell Ross signed on to direct the adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys, he wanted nearly the entire film to be shot from the first-person perspective. Here’s how he pulled off one of the year’s best and most ambitious movies.

By Kevin Nguyen, a features editor at The Verge, where he publishes award-winning stories about labor, business, and policing. Previously, he was a senior editor at GQ.

Actor Brandon Wilson dons the first-person camera rig. Amazon MGM Studios and Orion Pictures

RaMell Ross considers himself more of a visual artist than a movie director. His second film, Nickel Boys, attempts a visual artist’s feat: a feature shot entirely from the

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