The Oscar-nominated actress tells IndieWire what made being directed by Auteur Award recipient RaMell Ross different, even beyond his innovative camera work on "Nickel Boys."

The Auteur Award recipient warns audiences "to not look too hard" when viewing his Colson Whitehead adaptation.

I’ve been fortunate in the last five to seven years that these kinds of directors reached out to me…or invited me into their filmmaking worlds,” she says. “It’s been a

RaMell Ross's feature directorial debut "Nickel Boys" is unlike any mainstream release in recent memory. Rather than adapt the Colson Whitehead Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "The Nickel Boys" with a traditional approach,

Growing up in the rural South, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor never expected to be an actor, but she got herself to NYU and found her way to become an awards-season mainstay.

Nickel Boys’ director RaMell Ross on his revolutionary filmmaking choice: ‘I don’t know if I could have told the story any other way.’ He chose to shoot the project in first-person perspective, meaning actors speak to the camera and interact directly with the audience.