A Chinese film director has made history as the first Asian woman – and second woman ever – to win the best director award.
As accolades poured in from around the world for Chloé Zhao, the 38-year-old’s stepmother Song Dandan – a well-known actress in China – described her as legend in their family whose win would inspire countless Chinese children.
Zhao won the best director gong for her film Nomadland – the third of her films following on from Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015) and The Rider (2017).
The film stars Frances McDormand as a recent widow who is forced to lead a nomadic life traversing rural Nevada after the economy collapsed in the United States’ Great Recession of 2008.
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Mar 02, 2021
