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Oscars 2021: Nomadland sweeps the Academy Awards - with big wins for British stars Daniel Kaluuya and Emerald Fennell
Zhao, who was born in China, is the first woman of colour to win the
Academy Award for directing, and the second woman in history, after Kathryn Bigelow's triumph 11 years ago for The Hurt Locker.
The full list of winners from the 93rd Academy Awards
Accepting her statuette for her directing, Zhao told the audience at Los Angeles' Union Station: "I have always found goodness in the people I met, everywhere I went in the world.
"So this is for anyone who had the faith and the courage to hold on to the goodness in themselves, and to hold on to the goodness in each other, no matter how difficult it is to do that."