# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ramell-ross
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:30:48.542Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ramell-ross"
name: "RaMell Ross"
slug: "ramell-ross"
description: "RaMell Ross is an American filmmaker. His directorial debut, Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018), earned him a Peabody Award, and nominations for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film and the Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. Ross directed and co-wrote the screenplay for the 2024 film adaptation of the novel The Nickel Boys (2019), for which he won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director, and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay."
tagline: "American film director"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RaMell_Ross_2018_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1982-05-15"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.27
  momentum:             7.009345794392522
  historical:           7.906878666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm8840476/"
    handle:    "nm8840476"
sources:
  - url: "https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%85%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3"
    title: "رامیل راس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaMell_Ross"
    title: "RaMell Ross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaMell_Ross"
    title: "RaMell Ross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaMell_Ross"
    title: "RaMell Ross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaMell_Ross"
    title: "RaMell Ross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%9E%D7%9C_%D7%A8%D7%95%D7%A1"
    title: "ראמל רוס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaMell_Ross"
    title: "RaMell Ross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/RaMell_Ross"
    title: "RaMell Ross"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51808923"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1934875"
    title: "RaMell Ross"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump