Director/Producer Chloe Zhao, winner of the award for best picture 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)
Beijing-born Chloe Zhao was scrubbed from Chinese social media on Monday as a nationalist backlash airbrushed out her remarkable achievement of becoming the first woman of colour to win the best director Oscar.
Zhao on Sunday night became the second woman ever to win the coveted award at the LA ceremony, as her film “Nomadland” — about marginalised Americans roaming the west — bagged best picture and its lead, Frances McDormand, won best actress.