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With Chloe Zhao's expected DGA win last night, and her film Nomadland taking the lion’s share of BAFTA wins today for Best Film, Director, Actress Frances McDormand, and Cinematography, the Searchlight film would seem to be an overwhelming favorite to repeat at the Oscars. Who would bet against a film that has swept…

History has been made at the 73rd annual DGA Awards. Nomadland director Chloé Zhao has won the marquee prize for Nomadland, marking the second time the DGA has given the guild’s top prize to a female director after Kathryn Bigelow for 2008’s The Hurt Locker. Zhao, along with fellow DGA nominees David Fincher for Mank,…

UPDATED, 10:49 AM: The filmmakers behind Oscar-nominated doc short Do Not Split, which reportedly drew the ire of the Chinese government Wednesday, have issued a response to the news that the state has instructed media outlets to downplay this year’s Oscar coverage. “This alleged censoring of the Oscars due to our…

Chloe Zhao recently became the first Asian woman to win a Golden Globe for Best Director and now has a shot to repeat that at the Oscars with her awards-season darling Nomadland garnering six nominations today for Best Picture, Director, Editing, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography and Actress. Still, despite the…

In Oscar history, there’s never been more than one female filmmaker nominated in the Best Directing category in a single year. Until now. Nomadland Chinese director Chloé Zhao and Promising Young Woman UK filmmaker Emerald Fennell broke several Oscar historical records Monday for women when the 93rd Academy Awards…

Nomadland filmmaker Chloé Zhao has made history once again as the first woman of color to be nominated for Best Director at the Oscars. Alongside Promising Young Woman director Emerald Fennell, this morning’s nominations mark the first time two women have been nominated for Best Director in the history of the Academy…

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled its nominations Monday morning for the 93rd Oscars, through Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas. AMPAS's David Rubin started the pandemic-delayed Oscars by validating Deadline's scoop that most of the event will be held in Union Station in downtown Los Angeles…

Chloé Zhao won top honors Saturday night at the 33rd annual USC Libraries Scripter Awards for Nomadland, her adaptation of Jessica Bruder's nonfiction book, Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century. “This is so beautiful,” Zhao said, holding up the trophy, and thanking Bruder for her book and for her…

Michael Wolf Snyder, the sound mixer for a number of film titles, including Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland and The Rider, has died by suicide, according to a Facebook post from his aunt. He was 35. Snyder’s aunt, Cathy Snyder, shared a post from the sound mixer’s father, David Snyder, in which he details finding his son’s…

Chloé Zhao became the first director of Asian descent and only the second women ever to win the Golden Globe for Best Director, when she took the prize Sunday. Her night would end with an exclamation point as her film Nomadland went on to take the Best Motion Picture – Drama prize. Zhao had been a favorite in the…

UPDATED with latest winner:  The Palm Springs Film Festival said Wednesday Yuh-Jung Youn is the recipient of the 2021 Spotlight Award, Actress for her role in A24’s Minari. The Lee Isaac Chung-directed pic about how one generation of a Korean American family risks everything to plant dreams for the next on their…

For Nomadland, writer-director Chloé Zhao adapted Jessica Bruder’s 2017 book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century into a screenplay, got Frances McDormand to star in the movie, and hasn’t looked back since. The film, the third in the Beijing-born Zhao’s trilogy of a sort on the state of the…