Tag: Nomadland

Chloe Zhao’s Family Silent After Oscar Win

On April 25, “Nomadland” won the Oscar for best picture. The film’s director, Chloe Zhao, won the best director award, becoming the first Asian woman to win this award. Zhao’s previous works include “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” (2015) and “The Rider” (2017), both of which were selected for the Cannes Film Festival in France….


China Mutes Reaction to Zhao’s Oscars as S. Korea Lauds Youn

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Chloé Zhao’s history-making Oscars sweep, winning best director and best picture, is being met with a muted response in her country of birth, and even censorship. Zhao’s “Nomadland” is the second film directed by a woman to win a best picture Oscar. She is the first woman of color and second woman ever to…


‘Nomadland’ Wins Best Picture

Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao became the first woman of color to win best director and a historically diverse group of winners took home awards. In the biggest surprise of a socially distanced…


‘Nomadland’ Wins Best Picture at Academy Awards

Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards. The “Nomadland” victory capped the extraordinary rise of Zhao, a lyrical filmmaker whose winning film is just her third, and which—with a budget less than $5 million and featuring a cast populated…


Chloé Zhao Wins Best Director Oscar for ‘Nomadland’ as Broadcast Blocked in China

LOS ANGELES—Chloé Zhao has made history at the Academy Awards. Zhao won the Oscar for best director for “Nomadland,” becoming just the second woman and the first woman of color to win the award. “My entire Nomadland company, what a crazy, once-in-a-lifetime journey we’ve all been on together,” Zhao said. Kathryn Bigelow was the first…


Chloé Zhao Wins Best Director Oscar for ‘Nomadland,’ News Censored in China

LOS ANGELES—Chloé Zhao has made history at the 2021 Academy Awards, becoming the first woman of color to win best director and just the second woman to win the award. Zhao won the directing Oscar for “ Nomadland,” joining Kathryn Bigelow, who won in 2009 for “The Hurt Locker.” “I’m extremely lucky to be able to do what I love for…


CCP’s Top Propaganda Body Orders State Media Outlets to Downplay Upcoming Oscars Ceremony

Weeks ahead of the 93rd Oscars ceremony, scheduled for April 25 this year, Chinese authorities are said to have ordered state media outlets to downplay the event, with China’s state broadcaster CCTV saying it will cancel its planned live streaming. According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), sources said that the decision was made by the…


China Insider: Award-Winning Director Goes From ‘Pride of China’ to ‘China Insulter’

Chloe Zhao, a Chinese filmmaker, became the first Asian woman in history to win best director at the Golden Globes awards for the movie “Nomadland.” She was quickly hailed by the CCP media as the “Pride of China”. But a few days later, the praise suddenly reversed. The CCP began to blast her as a…


Film Review: ‘Nomadland’: Destitute Elders in Vans in America’s Badlands

R | 1h 48min | Drama | 19 February 2021 (USA) Here’s an interesting dilemma: “Nomadland” is a well-made movie with the feel of a documentary, since it uses many of the actual nomadic van-dwellers written about in award-winning gonzo journalist Jessica Bruder’s book of the same name. It’s got most critics out of their…