<I>Nomadland</I> on Sunday made Golden Globes history, as Chloe Zhao (趙婷) became the first female director to win the awards’ top prize for best drama, putting her film about marginalized Americans roaming the West in vans into Oscars pole position.
Zhao also bagged the best director award, making her only the second woman to do so in the history of Hollywood’s traditional awards season opener, which was a mainly virtual ceremony due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The late Chadwick Boseman won best actor for the 1920s blues drama <I>Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom</I>, six months after his death from cancer at age 43,