93rd academy awards, censorship, china, chloe zhao, nomadland, the oscars
China-born director Chloé Zhao earned three historic Oscar wins for Nomadland, including best picture, best director, and best actress, at the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25. In a recent interview at an international film festival, Zhao was asked if she’d ever considered telling her childhood story on the big screen. Zhao confessed that she had thought about it, but ...
While the world celebrated China-born director Chloé Zhao’s historic three Oscar wins for Nomadland, including best picture, best director, and best actress at the 93rd Academy Awards on April 25, China’s censors were busy trying to wipe any trace of the wins from the web. Despite extensive coverage of her historic achievement outside of China, there is ...
Chloé Zhao, the first Asian woman to win a Golden Globe for Best Director, is facing a backlash in her native China over a 2013 comment describing the country as a place “where there are lies everywhere.” Promotional material for Nomadland, as well as mentions of it on Weibo, the Chinese equivalent to Twitter, has ...
Chloé Zhao became the first female winner of Asian descent to win the Best Director category at the 2021 Golden Globes Awards for her film Nomadland, which also carried top honors by winning the Best Motion Picture-Drama category. Zhao joins Barbra Streisand, who won in 1984 for Yentl, as only the second woman to win directing honors ...