There has been a lot of hype about Marvel's Eternals, especially after director Chloe Zhao won multiple Oscars at Oscars 2021 with her movie Nomadland even winning the coveted Academy Award for Best Picture.
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Only five women have ever been nominated for Best Director in the 93-year history of the Academy Awards. Previously only “The Hurt Locker’s” Kathryn Bigelow had actually won the award.
She’s no longer alone in that honor after “Nomadland’s” Chloe Zhao took the Best Director win at the 2021 Oscars Sunday evening. READ MORE: Chloe Zhao says “The Revenant” is her “Eternals” inspiration [Interview] Zhao had previously made history as just the first woman of Asian descent to earn a Best Director
.There has been a lot of hype about Marvel's Eternals, especially after director Chloe Zhao won multiple Oscars at Oscars 2021 with her movie Nomadland even winning the coveted Academy Award for Best Picture.
The tradition of featuring the Academy Award winner for Best Director on Variety‘s post-Oscars cover continues with “Nomadland”‘s Chloe Zhao. On the morning after her historic award win that saw her become only the second woman to win the directing honour and the first woman of colour to do so, Zhao tells Variety all about the honour and “Nomadland”‘s Best Picture win.
LOS ANGELES -- Chloé Zhao has made history at the 2021 Academy Awards, becoming the first woman of color to win best director and just the second woman to win the award.Zhao won the directing Oscar for “ Nomadland,” joining Kathryn Bigelow, who won in 2009 for “The Hurt Locker.”“I'm extremely lucky to be able to do what I love for a living," she said backstage. “This win means more people get to live their dreams.
Academy Awards to win the award and the first woman of color.Only Kathryn Bigelow, 11 years ago for “The Hurt Locker,” had previously won the award. The win, widely expected, caps the extraordinary rise of the China-born Zhao, a lyrical filmmaker whose “Nomadland” is just her third feature.
Rebecca Davis editorWhile the world celebrated China-born director Chloé Zhao’s historic three Oscar wins for best picture, best director and best editing, China’s censors were busy trying to wipe any trace of the Academy Awards from the web.An initial burst of celebration and congratulatory messages appeared on Chinese social media just after the ceremony, which aired Monday morning Beijing time.
Chloe Zhao made Oscar history over the weekend when she won the Best Director award, as well as Best Picture, at the 2021 Oscars.
The 93rd Academy Awards were held on April 25, 2021. After facing a tough year worldwide thanks to the pandemic, the awards ceremony honoured the work of films that still released and entertained audiences in these trying times.
Nomadland was named best picture at the 2021 Oscars on Sunday. "We thank the Academy, and we thank our brilliant fellow nominees," said director and producer Chloé Zhao as she stepped up to the podium with producersMollye Asher, Dan Janvey, Frances McDormand and Peter Spears.
Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefSouth Korean media were quick to celebrate the Oscar win, as best supporting actress in “Minari,” for veteran Yuh-jung Youn. It was a first ever acting win for a Korean actor.
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Marvel fans have reacted with excitement to Chloe Zhao’s Best Director win at the 93rd Academy Awards. Zhao, who took home the prize for her independent road movie Nomadland, also directed the forthcoming Marvel Cinematic Universe film Eternals.
Nomadland, directed by the Chinese filmmaker Chloé Zhao, is part of a long lineage of non-American American art, from Wim Wenders’ Paris, Texas to Andrea Arnold’s American Honey. It grapples with grief, the betrayals of capitalism, and the lure of the open road.
Chloé Zhao has become only the second woman to ever win the Academy Award for best director, accepting the prize at the 2021 Oscars. The award was presented by last year's winner, Bong Joon Ho, in Seoul, before Zhao took the stage to accept it at the awards' main venue, Los Angeles' Union Station.
When Mia Neal, Jamika Wilson and Sergio Lopez-Rivera won the Oscar for Best Makeup and Hairstyling for their work on Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, Neal and Wilson became the first Black women to win the honor. When Neal took the stage at Union Station to accept the award she used this opportunity to give shine to other Black, Asian, Latinx, Indigenous, queer, trans and everyone in the margins and said of her monumental win: “One day it won’t be unusual or groundbreaking, it’ll just be normal.”
A remodeled Oscars 2021 awards ceremony took place in Los Angeles on Sunday evening and ignited a glimmer of hope in otherwise dark times. With maskless nominees coming together to celebrate films across genres, the Los Angeles Union Station was all glammed up for the occasion.
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Nomadland filmmaker on Sunday won the Oscar for Best Director, making her the first woman of color to ever win this award. In fact, she was the first woman of color to even be nominated for Best Director.
Marvel Studios' upcoming Eternals movie — has broken new ground with an Oscars 2021 win. The Chinese filmmaker won the Best Director prize at Sunday's ceremony for her movie Nomadland, the Frances McDormand-starring film about a woman travelling across the US in a van after her husband's death.