Chloé Zhao’s America Alison Willmore
Chloé Zhao used to say she sometimes forgot she was Asian. It wasn’t something she meant as a statement of racial renunciation or a “We’re all citizens of the world” platitude. Zhao, the filmmaker behind the Oscar-favored
, is fully cognizant of the fact that she’s 38 and five-foot-six (and a half), with what she impishly describes as the typical traits of northerners in China: “Loud, obnoxious, big bones I love stereotyping my own people.” What she was trying to articulate was a reflection of her own slippery sense of self, made more elusive by her years spent moving around the globe.
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.
OKC film fans can see an Oscar front-runner in a surprising place this weekend oklahoman.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from oklahoman.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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For the first time in the history of the Golden Globes, three female directors have been nominated in the Best Director category - Regina King for
One Night in Miami, Chloe Zhao for
Nomadland and Emerald Fennell for
Promising Young Woman.
The Golden Globes revealed its 2021 nominees during a live stream on Wednesday, hosted by actresses Sarah Jessica Parker and Taraji P Henson.
Throughout its history, the Hollywood Foreign Press Associations had only nominated five women for the Best Director award, and the category has never seen more than one women nominated in any one year. Barbra Streisand is the only woman to win for
Searchlight Pictures has released a new featurette for director Chloé Zhao's forthcoming drama film Nomadland, featuring Zhao and Oscar-winning actress Frances McDormand.