China Censors Oscars Winners Chloé Zhao and Nomadland
On 4/26/21 at 3:05 AM EDT
Nomadland on Sunday, following controversy over the filmmakers previous remarks about her homeland.
Chinese filmmaker Zhao, 39, became the first woman of color and only the second woman ever to win an Academy Award for Best Director, but celebrations on Weibo China s Twitter-like microblogging service were being muted almost as quickly as they were being posted.
Censorship on the website, which had more than 500 active monthly users as of last December, began less than an hour into Oscars night when Zhao made history by bagging the first of the event s big awards.