![]() ![]() ![]() The Chinese Internet lit up in response to Zhao’s Golden Globe, proudly claiming the otherwise little-known filmmaker as China’s native daughter. The China-born but UK- and US-educated Chloe Zhao won the Best Director award at the Golden Globes on February 28, 2021, in an early harbinger of the film’s later award season success. It is China-not the Academy Award nor Nomadland as an artistic text-that has become the focus of most of the media coverage about the film. Nomadland, a film set in the American hinterland, has somehow outshined Mank among the chattering classes-not necessarily for its cinematic feats but for the director’s Chinese origin. ![]() The Hollywood novice and outsider Chloe Zhao wrote, directed, and edited Nomadland (2021), the Oscar-crowned best picture that has generated far more international attention than all the rest of its fellow academy Best Picture nominees for 2021, including the much talked about (at least among seasoned Hollywood watchers and practitioners) Mank, a meta cinematic tale about the birth of Hollywood’s legendary film Citizen Kane, from the quintessential US film industry insider David Fincher. ![]()
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