Nomadland (2020)
In a virtual ceremony that the
New York Times’ Kyle Buchanan describes as “more glitchy than glitzy,” the thirtieth annual Gotham Awards were presented last night, and Chloé Zhao’s
Nomadland won not only best feature but also the audience award. Last week,
Nomadland led the National Society of Film Critics awards, taking best feature, director, cinematography for Joshua James Richards’s work, and actress for Frances McDormand, who plays a woman roaming the American west after losing her husband, job, and home. The week before, the Alliance of Women Film Journalists honored
Nomadland in all four of those categories and added two more for Zhao’s editing and her adapted screenplay based on Jessica Bruder’s 2017 book,