Chinese-born director Chloe Zhao's Nomadland scores 6 nominations for US HCA Awards
3 years, 10 months ago

Chinese-born director Chloe Zhao's Nomadland scores 6 nominations for US HCA Awards

China Daily  

Frances McDormand in Nomadland. Chinese-born director Chloe Zhao's feature film Nomadland earned six nominations including Best Picture on Tuesday for the 4th Annual Hollywood Critics Association Film Awards. The road-trip drama, starring Frances McDormand, remains as a favorite among critics in the HCA awards, a lead-up to the Oscars this year, with Zhao pocketing three individual nods, namely Best Female Director, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Film Editing. Its latest trophies included Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Cinematography from the 2020 Atlanta Film Critics Circle Awards on Monday. Earlier, Nomadland had won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival, making history as the first to win both honors.

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Oscars 2021: Chloe Zhao's Best Director win meets lukewarm response, censorship in her home country China
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Chloe Zhao's Best Director win meets lukewarm response, censorship in her home country China

Firstpost  

Zhao faced a nationalist backlash in March when she won a Golden Globe for Best Director, with internet users in China questioning whether she could be called Chinese and some saying she had insulted her home country in comments on the political system. Taipei: Chloe Zhao’s history-making Oscars sweep, winning best director and best picture, is being met with a …

Oscars 2021: ’Nomadland’ wins Best Picture, Director, Actress
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: ’Nomadland’ wins Best Picture, Director, Actress

Live Mint  

It’s only right that a year as strange as this gets a strange Oscar ceremony. Nomadland was the odds-on favourite – and it won Best Picture and Best Director for Chloe Zhao. Anthony Hopkins beat off a strong field – including a terrific Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal – to win his second Best Actor trophy for The Father, …

Oscars 2021: ’Nomadland’ wins Best Picture, Director, Actress
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: ’Nomadland’ wins Best Picture, Director, Actress

Live Mint  

It’s only right that a year as strange as this gets a strange Oscar ceremony. Nomadland was the odds-on favourite – and it won Best Picture and Best Director for Chloe Zhao. Anthony Hopkins beat off a strong field – including a terrific Riz Ahmed in Sound of Metal – to win his second Best Actor trophy for The Father, …

Oscars 2021: Nomadland, Chloe Zhao's meditative drama set in the American West, wins Best Picture
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Nomadland, Chloe Zhao's meditative drama set in the American West, wins Best Picture

Firstpost  

Based on Jessica Bruder’s book of the same name, Nomadland stars Frances McDormand as Fern, a woman who, after the economic collapse of her company town in rural Nevada, packs her van and sets off on the road to explore a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Los Angeles: Nomadland, Chloe Zhao’s meditative drama about grief and …

Chloé Zhao makes history with best director Oscar win
3 years, 7 months ago

Chloé Zhao makes history with best director Oscar win

Associated Press  

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 …

Oscars 2021: Frances McDormand wins third Oscar with shock Best Actress win for Nomadland
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Frances McDormand wins third Oscar with shock Best Actress win for Nomadland

The Independent  

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Frances McDormand has won Best Actress at this year’s Academy Awards …

Chloé Zhao Becomes First Woman Of Color, Second Woman Ever To Win Best Director Oscar
3 years, 7 months ago

Chloé Zhao Becomes First Woman Of Color, Second Woman Ever To Win Best Director Oscar

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Chloé Zhao won the Best Director trophy at the Oscars on Sunday night for “Nomadland,” her expansive but bracingly intimate film exploring the lives of 21st-century itinerant workers across the American West. The Chinese filmmaker, who emerged as a clear front-runner early on this awards season with wins at the Golden Globes and BAFTAs last month, now …

Oscars 2021 winners: Best Actress Frances McDormand HOWLS as Nomadland wins at 93rd Academy Awards
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021 winners: Best Actress Frances McDormand HOWLS as Nomadland wins at 93rd Academy Awards

Daily Mail  

Nomadland triumphed as the drama earned Best Picture in addition to a historic win for Frances McDormand as Best Actress at perhaps the wokest Academy Awards ever - which was virtually mask free amid the COVID-19 pandemic - in Los Angeles on Sunday night. Interesting: The award show - which was celebrating its 93rd annual event - broke tradition as …

"Nomadland" wins big at the 2021 Oscars, which made history — and some unfortunate choices
3 years, 7 months ago

"Nomadland" wins big at the 2021 Oscars, which made history — and some unfortunate choices

Salon  

Few frustrations irritate more than a decent movie that ends poorly. Leaving the best actor category for last was a bet on the part of the producers that Chadwick Boseman would posthumously win for his stunning work in "Ma Rainey's". In addition to Zhao's win, "Minari" star Youn Yuh-jung's win for best supporting actress win made her the second woman …

Oscars 2021: Full list of Academy Award winners
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Full list of Academy Award winners

Al Jazeera  

Chloe Zhao made history as she became only the second woman to win best director at the Oscars. The Academy Awards, or Oscars, have been handed out at a ceremony in Los Angeles and were broadcast live on ABC television. The 93rd annual ceremony, held at Union Station on Sunday, was stripped back to its bare essentials as a result …

Oscars 2021 LIVE: All the updates and winners from the ceremony
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021 LIVE: All the updates and winners from the ceremony

The Hindu  

Chloé Zhao made history as the first woman of colour to win best director with Nomadland, while Anthony Hopkins and Frances McDormand won the top acting awards during a very strange Oscar ceremony. An emotional McDormand urges people to go back to the theatres: "Please watch our movie on the largest screen possible, and one day very very soon take …

Here’s the complete list of 2021 Oscar winners
3 years, 7 months ago

Here’s the complete list of 2021 Oscar winners

LA Times  

Chloé Zhao and “Nomadland” were the big winners at the 93rd Academy Awards, winning best picture, director and lead actress honors in a ceremony that also presented some historic firsts. And the 2021 Academy Award winners are: Lead actor Anthony Hopkins, “The Father” | WINNER Riz Ahmed, “Sound of Metal” Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Gary Oldman, “Mank” Steven …

Why Chloé Zhao’s historic best director Oscar win matters
3 years, 7 months ago

Why Chloé Zhao’s historic best director Oscar win matters

LA Times  

The final shot in “Songs My Brothers Taught Me,” Chloé Zhao’s too-little-seen 2015 debut feature, is of a fistful of sand being hurled skyward, then quietly dissipating on a desert breeze. It’s not an atypical image to encounter in this filmmaker’s rapturously poetic yet insistently grounded work: Here, as in “The Rider” and “Nomadland” — the movie for which she …

How did ‘Nomadland’ win best picture? A closer look at its road to the Oscars
3 years, 7 months ago

How did ‘Nomadland’ win best picture? A closer look at its road to the Oscars

LA Times  

Eight months ago, Chloé Zhao drove from her Ojai home down the 101 Freeway to the Rose Bowl for the pop-up drive-in premiere of “Nomadland,” the poignant story of a widow grappling with grief and finding community on the road with a group of travelers. It was weird.” Movies Here’s the complete list of 2021 Oscar winners “Nomadland” takes home …

Oscars 2021: Netflix and Disney dominate in streaming’s biggest year
3 years, 7 months ago

Oscars 2021: Netflix and Disney dominate in streaming’s biggest year

LA Times  

Netflix and Walt Disney Co. dominated the entertainment industry conversation in a year defined by the COVID-19 pandemic and streaming. The 93rd Academy Awards represented a strong night for Netflix, which, despite losing best picture to Disney-owned Searchlight’s “Nomadland,” won seven prizes for movies including “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “Mank” and multiple smaller films. The streaming giant came into the …

BAFTA 2021 highlights: Minari star Yuh-Jung Youn thanks 'snobbish' Brits after win; Chloe Zhao creates history with Best Director award
3 years, 8 months ago

BAFTA 2021 highlights: Minari star Yuh-Jung Youn thanks 'snobbish' Brits after win; Chloe Zhao creates history with Best Director award

Firstpost  

Chloe Zhao became only the second woman, and the first woman of colour, to win the BAFTA for best director Gig-economy Western Nomadland won four prizes including best picture on Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, which were handed out during a pandemic-curbed ceremony that recognized a diverse array of screen talent. Nomadland filmmaker Chloe Zhao became only the …

BAFTA 2021: Chloe Zhao's Nomadland wins top honours including Best Film, director; see winners' list
3 years, 8 months ago

BAFTA 2021: Chloe Zhao's Nomadland wins top honours including Best Film, director; see winners' list

Firstpost  

Gig-economy Western Nomadland won four prizes including best picture on Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, which were handed out during a pandemic-curbed ceremony that recognized a diverse array of screen talent. Nomadland filmmaker Chloe Zhao became only the second woman, and the first woman of colour, to win the BAFTA for best director, and star Frances McDormand was …

‘Nomadland’ wins 4 BAFTAs including best picture, director
3 years, 8 months ago

‘Nomadland’ wins 4 BAFTAs including best picture, director

Associated Press  

LONDON — Gig-economy Western “Nomadland” won four prizes including best picture on Sunday at the British Academy Film Awards, which were handed out during a pandemic-curbed ceremony that recognized a diverse array of screen talent. Emerald Fennell’s revenge comedy “Promising Young Woman” was named best British film, while the best actor trophy went to 83-year-old Anthony Hopkins for playing a …

Producers Guild of America Awards 2021: Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland bags top prize; see full list of winners
3 years, 8 months ago

Producers Guild of America Awards 2021: Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland bags top prize; see full list of winners

Firstpost  

Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland cemented its Oscar front-runner status Wednesday, winning the top award at the 32nd annual Producers Guild of America Awards. Nomadland, Zhao’s recession-era portrait of itinerant people in the American West, is only the second film directed by a woman to win the producers’ Darryl F. Zanuck award for outstanding producer of a motion picture. They differed last …

‘Nomadland’ wins PGA Award, cementing front-runner status
3 years, 8 months ago

‘Nomadland’ wins PGA Award, cementing front-runner status

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland” cemented its Oscar front-runner status Wednesday, winning the top award at the 32nd annual Producers Guild of America Awards. “Nomadland,” Zhao’s recession-era portrait of itinerant people in the American West, is only the second film directed by a woman to win the producers’ Darryl F. Zanuck award for outstanding producer of a motion picture. …

Oscar-nominated 'Nomadland' To Release in India on April 2
3 years, 9 months ago

Oscar-nominated 'Nomadland' To Release in India on April 2

News 18  

The Frances McDormand-starrer Nomadland will release in India on April 2. The film is nominated in six categories at the upcoming Oscar Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress, and has won the Best Picture and Best Director awards at Golden Globes Awards 2021. According to director Chloe Zhao, the quintessentially American film is set on the road …

Oscars 2021: Netflix leads studios with 35 nominations in streaming’s big year
3 years, 9 months ago

Oscars 2021: Netflix leads studios with 35 nominations in streaming’s big year

LA Times  

Welcome to the Living Room Oscars. Netflix also earned six nominations for Aaron Sorkin’s historical drama “The Trial of the Chicago 7,” also up for best picture, and five for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” The late Chadwick Boseman was honored with a lead actor nomination for his role in “Ma Rainey,” and his costar Viola Davis earned a spot in …

Chloé Zhao makes history as the first woman of color nominated for a directing Oscar
3 years, 9 months ago

Chloé Zhao makes history as the first woman of color nominated for a directing Oscar

LA Times  

In an unusual year marred by a global pandemic and theater closures nationwide, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has nominated two female filmmakers for a directing Oscar, marking the first time more than one woman has been nominated in the same year. With their nominations, Zhao and Chung join the ranks of just four directors of East …

Critics Choice Awards 2021 Winners List: Nomadland wins Best Film, posthumous win for Chadwick Boseman
3 years, 9 months ago

Critics Choice Awards 2021 Winners List: Nomadland wins Best Film, posthumous win for Chadwick Boseman

India TV News  

The 26th annual Critics Choice Awards, hosted by Taye Diggs, was filmed from a stage in Los Angeles. The awards honored the year's best performances in movies and television. Check out the complete winner's list here- Best Picture: “Nomadland” Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, “Promising Young Woman” Best Actor: Chadwick Boseman, “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” Best Supporting Actor: Daniel Kaluuya, “Judas …

Chloé Zhao made history with her Golden Globe. Now she faces backlash in China
3 years, 9 months ago

Chloé Zhao made history with her Golden Globe. Now she faces backlash in China

LA Times  

Chloé Zhao’s success as the first Asian woman and the second woman ever to win a Golden Globe for best director, for her film “Nomadland,” has not been met with universal applause in her country of birth. The second quote came from an interview Zhao did with an Australian website, news.com.au, in December last year in which she said that …

Chloe Zhao Makes History As First Asian Woman To Win Best Director Golden Globe
3 years, 9 months ago

Chloe Zhao Makes History As First Asian Woman To Win Best Director Golden Globe

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING “Nomadland” director Chloe Zhao took home the trophy for Best Director ― Motion Picture at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, making history as the first woman of Asian descent to ever win the award. “Nomadland” garnered immediate critical praise upon its debut in September, becoming the first film to ever win the top prize at both …

‘Nomadland’ Is An Astonishing Movie And A Worthy Oscar Front-Runner
3 years, 10 months ago

‘Nomadland’ Is An Astonishing Movie And A Worthy Oscar Front-Runner

Huff Post  

Frances McDormand in "Nomadland," now streaming on Hulu and playing in select theaters. The Oscars, a buffet of overpriced politicking, almost never honor the year’s actual best film, making “Nomadland” an automatic outlier. Despite drawing inspiration from Jessica Bruder’s nonfiction book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century,” the film’s political heft is as gentle as its plot. She cast …

Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' opens simultaneously in US theaters, on Hulu
3 years, 10 months ago

Chloe Zhao's 'Nomadland' opens simultaneously in US theaters, on Hulu

China Daily  

Poster of the film Nomadland. Chinese female director Chloe Zhao's heavyweight Oscar contender "Nomadland" on Friday was simultaneously released wide in US theaters and on streaming platform Hulu. Based on Jessica Bruder's 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century, the Searchlight Pictures' critically-acclaimed film stars two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand as an out-of-work woman who packs her …

Critics Choice Awards 2021 nominations: Mank leads with 12 nods, Netflix creates record with 4 best picture nominees
3 years, 10 months ago

Critics Choice Awards 2021 nominations: Mank leads with 12 nods, Netflix creates record with 4 best picture nominees

Firstpost  

Mank, Minari, and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom topped the nominations list at the 26th Critics Choice Awards this year Streaming platforms seemed to dominate the 26th Critics Choice Awards. These include Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods, George C Wolfe’s Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, David Fincher’s Mank, and Aaron Sorkin’s The Trial of the Chicago 7. Here’s the complete list of …

Chinese director Chloe Zhao's Nomadland scores 4 nominations for 78th Golden Globe Awards
3 years, 10 months ago

Chinese director Chloe Zhao's Nomadland scores 4 nominations for 78th Golden Globe Awards

China Daily  

Frances McDormand in Nomadland. LOS ANGELES -- Chinese female director Chloe Zhao's feature film Nomadland scored four nominations including Best Motion Picture-Drama on Wednesday for the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Zhao, a favorite among critics in the lead-up to the Oscars this year, received two individual nominations, namely Best director and Best Screenplay, while two-time Oscar winner McDormand was …

Chinese director Chloe Zhao's Nomadland scores 4 nominations for 78th Golden Globe Awards
3 years, 10 months ago

Chinese director Chloe Zhao's Nomadland scores 4 nominations for 78th Golden Globe Awards

China Daily  

Frances McDormand in Nomadland. LOS ANGELES -- Chinese female director Chloe Zhao's feature film Nomadland scored four nominations including Best Motion Picture-Drama on Wednesday for the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards. Zhao, a favorite among critics in the lead-up to the Oscars this year, received two individual nominations, namely Best director and Best Screenplay, while two-time Oscar winner McDormand was …

US movie critics laud Chinese director
3 years, 11 months ago

US movie critics laud Chinese director

China Daily  

The film Nomadland stars two-time Oscar winner McDormand. On Thursday, the American contemporary western drama film from Disney's Searchlight Pictures was named one of the top 10 films of 2020 by the Columbus Film Critics Association, along with Promising Young Woman, Sound of Metal, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Minari, Soul, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, The Trial of the Chicago 7, …

Chinese-born director's ’Nomadland’ wins big at National Society of Film Critics Awards in US
3 years, 11 months ago

Chinese-born director's ’Nomadland’ wins big at National Society of Film Critics Awards in US

China Daily  

Chloe Zhao, director, Joshua Richards, director of photography, and actress Frances McDormand on the set of Nomadland. LOS ANGELES -- Chinese-born female director Chloe Zhao's feature film "Nomadland" turned out to be a big winner on Saturday at the annual National Society of Film Critics Awards with four trophies, continuing to sweep the awards circuit in the United States. At …

Chloe Zhao in Oscar contention after film sweeps awards in US
3 years, 11 months ago

Chloe Zhao in Oscar contention after film sweeps awards in US

China Daily  

Chloe Zhao, director, Joshua Richards, director of photography, and actress Frances McDormand on the set of Nomadland. The evocative feature film, Nomadland, the latest effort by insightful Chinese female director, Chloe Zhao, is sweeping the awards circuit in the United States, putting her on the fast track for Oscar contention. Zhao's film from Disney's Searchlight Pictures snapped up five top …

Chloe Zhao in Oscar contention after film sweeps awards in US
3 years, 11 months ago

Chloe Zhao in Oscar contention after film sweeps awards in US

China Daily  

Chloe Zhao, director, Joshua Richards, director of photography, and actress Frances McDormand on the set of Nomadland. The evocative feature film, Nomadland, the latest effort by insightful Chinese female director, Chloe Zhao, is sweeping the awards circuit in the United States, putting her on the fast track for Oscar contention. Zhao's film from Disney's Searchlight Pictures snapped up five top …

Chloe Zhao in Oscar contention after film sweeps awards in US
3 years, 11 months ago

Chloe Zhao in Oscar contention after film sweeps awards in US

China Daily  

The film stars two-time Oscar winner McDormand. In Boston, it won the best picture and best director, best actress, best cinematography, and best editing from the Boston Online Film Critics Association on Dec 19 and also won best picture, best director, and best cinematography from the Boston Society of Film Critics on Dec 13. After six nominations from the Florida …

Chloe Zhao in Oscar contention after film sweeps awards in US
3 years, 11 months ago

Chloe Zhao in Oscar contention after film sweeps awards in US

China Daily  

Chloe Zhao, director, Joshua Richards, director of photography, and actress Frances McDormand on the set of Nomadland. The evocative feature film, Nomadland, the latest effort by insightful Chinese female director, Chloe Zhao, is sweeping the awards circuit in the United States, putting her on the fast track for Oscar contention. Zhao's film from Disney's Searchlight Pictures snapped up five top …

Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ wins TIFF People’s Choice Award
4 years, 3 months ago

Chloé Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ wins TIFF People’s Choice Award

Associated Press  

After picking up Venice’s Golden Lion award, Chloé Zhao’s “ Nomadland " has won another prestigious honor: The Toronto International Film Festival’s People’s Choice Award. In the past decade, every People’s Choice winner has secured a best picture nomination and a handful have gone on to win, including “Green Book,” “12 Years a Slave,” “The King’s Speech” and “Slumdog Millionaire.” …

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