‘Nomadland’s Chloe Zhao Makes History As First Asian Woman To Receive Golden Globe Directing Nomination

The Vancouver Film Critics Circle has named Chloé Zhao's Nomadland as its best international feature of 2020 as the American road movie continued its run as an early award season contender. Zhao also picked up the best director honor, while Frances McDormand earned the best actress trophy for her role in Nomadland.The late Chadwick Boseman was voted best actor for his star turn in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.

French electronic music duo Daft Punk have called it quits after nearly 30 years.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, Universal/DreamWorks Animation’s Croods: A New Age led the box office for its fifth weekend out of 13 running, and crossed $50M, inching closer to becoming the top grossing movie of the pandemic, and potentially upsetting Warner Bros.’ Tenet ($57.9M).

with the Golden Globes airing Sunday. Now, The Post kicks off its annual Academy Awards tracker — Gold Digger.

The original motion picture score race has begun, and already two-time Oscar winning composer Alexandre Desplat is a contender for his music on George Clooney’s sci-fi Netflix movie The Midnight Sky which recently received a Golden Globe nomination.

EXCLUSIVE: In 2014, French playwright Florian Zeller won the Molière Award for Le Pere, a play about an aging man’s bout with dementia. Seven years, a TV series and a French film adaptation later, Zeller brings his words to the big screen and to the Oscar-season awards race.

Call My Agent!? Now four seasons deep, the smart, stylish and funny French series deserves is the comedy show that Emily In Paris wishes it could be; yet the Lily Collins stinker was all that was ever offered up to me on a deep scroll via my algorithm. Merci pour rien, Netflix.

Also Read: Chloe Zhao to Direct 'Dracula' as Futuristic Sci-Fi Western at Universal“Nomadland” has been the toast of the awards season thus far, winning the Gotham Award and becoming the most critically acclaimed film of 2020, and it most recently picked up four Golden Globe nominations and a Screen Actors Guild nomination for Best Actress Frances McDormand.Zhaó too has seen her star rise enormously, even though we didn’t get her next film, Marvel’s “Eternals,” in 2020 as was originally planned

“One of the things I love most about this life, is there’s no final goodbye’s, let’s just say, I’ll see ya down the road,” a nomad and non-professional actor says to Frances McDormand in Chloé Zhao‘s critically acclaimed drama “Nomadland.”Co-starring David Strathairn, the film, a soulful, sad American Western drama about economic hardship and life on the open road is otherwise, free of stars and populated with real nomad, non-professional actors, many of whom are excellent revelations like Linda

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.

Chloé Zhao has made three feature films to date, each of them blending narrative storytelling with non-fiction. Her debut, Songs My Brothers Taught Me, told the story of Native American siblings struggling to find their place in a changing world.

The Toronto Film Critics Association named Chloe Zhao's Nomadland as its best picture of 2020 as the American road movie continued its run as an early award season contender. On Sunday, Zhao picked up the best director honor for Nomadland, which also earned Frances McDormand the best actress trophy for her role in the film, while Riz Ahmed earned a win for best actor for his performances in Sound of Metal.

Nomadland has been named film of the year at the 41st London Critics' Circle Film Awards, adding to a growing array of honors the movie has amassed since it premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Chloe Zhao's American road movie also earned an actress of the year win for Frances McDormand and screenwriter of the year win for writer-director Zhao at the virtual ceremony on Sunday night.

Naman Ramachandran “Nomadland” and “Saint Maud” took top honors at the 41st London Critics’ Circle Film Awards, with three wins each, while the late Chadwick Boseman won actor of the year for “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.”American road movie “Nomadland” won film of the year, while lead Frances McDormand was named actress of the year, and writer-director Chloé Zhao won screenwriter of the year.British horror film “Saint Maud” won British/Irish film of the year, British/Irish actress of the year

EXCLUSIVE: Filippo Meneghetti’s Golden Globe nominated Two Of Us goes out in the U.S. today via Magnolia Pictures. As a special treat for the virtual release, star Barbara Sukowa was interviewed by Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Isabelle Huppert in a discussion that will play after every screening. Check out an exclusive clip above.

Also Read: 'Nomadland': How Frances McDormand Got Amazon to Agree to Shooting in a Real WarehouseIt’s worth noting that this will be a separate feature from another “Dracula” project Blumhouse is producing from director Karyn Kusama.

Emily in Paris has spoken of her surprise and “rage” that Michaela Coel’s BBC series I May Destroy You was shut out by the Golden Globes. The critically panned comedy, starring Lily Collins as an American marketing whizz working in France, was nominated in two categories — Best TV Series (Musical or Comedy) and Best Actress in a TV Series (Musical or Comedy) for Collins.