Chloe Zhao completed her awards season sweep on Sunday, taking home the Academy Award for Best Director for her stunning 2020 film, “Nomadland”.
With the win, Zhao becomes the first woman of colour, and second woman ever, to take home the Oscars’ top directing honour. The Chinese filmmaker and “Promising Young Woman”‘s Emerald Fennell became just the sixth and seventh female nominees in the history of the category with their nods this year; Kathryn Bigelow is the only other woman to win Best Director, for 2009’s “The Hurt Locker”. “When I was growing up in China, my dad and I would play this game.
We would memorize classic poems and text and try to finish each other’s sentences,” Zhao recalled during her acceptance speech, before reciting
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