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Nomadland: Why Chloe Zhao and Frances McDormand s story of real-life nomads is this year s Oscars front-runner I m not homeless, says Frances McDormand s character Fern, in Nomadland. I m just… houseless. Not the same thing, right?
Its double (possibly soon triple) Oscar winning star aside, the film sweeping through awards season this year features a cast of unknown faces. The heart of Nomadland is the nomads themselves, a community of itinerant van dwellers living off grid, on the periphery of society, in the American West.
There s grandmother Linda May, who dreams of settling and creating an Earthship, and Bob Wells, the 65-year-old founder of the Rubber Tramp Rendezvous, the largest gathering of nomads and van dwellers in the US. And Charlene Swankie, a 78-year-old who had been living on the road for more than a decade and had no idea at first why anyone would want to make a film about her normal life.
Nomadland: These are the real-life nomads who also appeared in the film
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Nomadland: Why Chloe Zhao and Frances McDormand s story of real-life nomads is this year s Oscars front-runner
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Nomadland: Why Chloe Zhao and Frances McDormand s story of real-life nomads is this year s Oscars front-runner
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When Jessica Bruder was reporting
Nomadland, her award-winning gonzo investigation of transient American seniors who follow seasonal employment while living out of their vans, she never imagined that the nomads with whom she was up to her elbows in campground toilets would become movie stars. Almost four years out from the book s publication,
Nomadland has become a feature film, as well as an awards season darling. Nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Actress, and Best Director,
Nomadland is directed by Chloe Zhao, starring Frances McDormand as a fictional protagonist alongside the real-life nomads featured in Bruder s book, who appear as themselves. For years, Bruder lived with and reported on these itinerant laborers, traveling the American West in her own van (christened Van Halen) and working grueling jobs alongside them everywhere from an Amazon fulfillment center to a sugar beet harvesting plant.