In these unusual days for the entertainment business, an Academy Award front-runner is getting an unusual theatrical rollout. Trailblazing writer-director Chloé Zhao's delicately understated road movie "Nomadland" opens Friday in Oklahoma City in a format not often explored by Oscar-bound independent dramas: the IMAX screen at the AMC Quail Springs Mall 24. It's part of an uncommon release strategy Searchlight Pictures has adopted during these unprecedented days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Zhao's visually striking and emotionally resonate drama is debuting in IMAX around the country over the next few weeks, leading up to its opening in standard movie theaters on Feb. 19, the same day the film starts streaming on Hulu.