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Chloe 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 also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of colour.
The most ambitious award show held during the pandemic, the Oscars rolled out a red carpet and restored some glamour to the nearly century-old movie institution, but with a much transformed — and in some ways downsized — telecast. It was a year when, to paraphrase Norma Desmond, the pictures got smaller were overwhelmingly seen in the home, not in the big screen, during a pandemic year that forced theaters close and prompted radical change in Hollywood. It was also perhaps the diverse Academy Awards ever, with more women and more actors of color nominated than ever before — and Sunday ...
27 Shares Chloe Zhao arrives at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. (Chris Pizzello, Pool, AP Photo) Chloe 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 also became just the second woman to win best director, and the first woman of color. The “Nomadland” victory, while widely expected, nevertheless capped the extraordinary rise of Zhao, a lyrical filmmaker whose winning film is just her third, and which — with a ...
It was a socially distanced Oscars 2021: Nomadland, Chloe Zhao and a red carpet Toggle share menu Advertisement It was a socially distanced Oscars 2021: Nomadland, Chloe Zhao and a red carpet Chloe Zhao and team won big in what was perhaps the most diverse Academy Awards edition ever. Chloe Zhao, winner of the awards for best picture and director for "Nomadland," poses in the press room at the Oscars on Sunday, April 25, 2021, at Union Station in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, Pool) 26 Apr 2021 01:06PM (Updated: 26 Apr 2021 01:19PM)...
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