Chloe Zhao's Oscar winning film, starring Frances McDormand, finds a widow travelling the American West, on the fringes of conventional society (available on STAR, Disney +). Read the Empire review here.
Frances McDormand in Nomadland
Chloé Zhao s Oscar-winning ode to independence and isolation became an anthem for the dysphoria of 2020.
On Sunday, Chloé Zhao s elegiac neo-Western
Nomadlandmade Oscar history, winning best picture, best director and best actress at the 93rd Academy Awards ceremony. It is the first directing victory for a non-white female filmmaker. Zhao is also the first woman to ever receive four nominations in a single year. Additionally, Frances McDormand won
her third and fourth Oscars this year, for both starring in and producing the film. The last time a female-forward production fully entered the awards fray was in 2018, when Greta Gerwig s
Nomadland, review: Frances McDormand goes on the run from American carnage telegraph.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from telegraph.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Despite its recent and long-coming fall from the clouds, America is still a great place to live, if you’re educated and work in an in-demand and lucrative field. But if you don’t have the right ingredients, America will chew you up, spit you out, and ignore you. In other words, America only treats you right if it finds you useful.
Director Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland is an authentic, absorbing and quiet character study of people America doesn’t find useful. Set in 2011, the film focuses on Fern, a woman who, like many Americans, uses her van as a mobile home while travelling between jobs through the stark and unfriendly American desert.