NEW YORK—Even for a legendary film director like Martin Scorsese, the assignment was a daunting one. Take one of the famous American period rooms at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and make essentially a one-frame movie with no camera: a tableau, not a film, but using your cinematic sensibility. Your actors are mannequins, and the…

VENICE, Italy—Hope for the future of cinema was front of mind for many as the Venice International Film Festival kicked off Wednesday on the Lido. In the face of the Delta variant, and the trials those in the global film industry weathered last year, the 78th edition of the oldest festival in the world has…

On April 25, “Nomadland” won the Oscar for best picture. The film’s director, Chloe Zhao, won the best director award, becoming the first Asian woman to win this award. Zhao’s previous works include “Songs My Brothers Taught Me” (2015) and “The Rider” (2017), both of which were selected for the Cannes Film Festival in France….

TAIPEI, Taiwan—Chloé Zhao’s history-making Oscars sweep, winning best director and best picture, is being met with a muted response in her country of birth, and even censorship. Zhao’s “Nomadland” is the second film directed by a woman to win a best picture Oscar. She is the first woman of color and second woman ever to…

Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards. The “Nomadland” victory capped the extraordinary rise of Zhao, a lyrical filmmaker whose winning film is just her third, and which—with a budget less than $5 million and featuring a cast populated…

Chloé Zhao’s “Nomadland,” a wistful portrait of itinerant lives on open roads across the American West, won best picture Sunday at the 93rd Academy Awards, where the China-born Zhao became the first woman of color to win best director and a historically diverse group of winners took home awards. In the biggest surprise of a socially distanced…

LOS ANGELES—Chloé Zhao has made history at the Academy Awards. Zhao won the Oscar for best director for “Nomadland,” becoming just the second woman and the first woman of color to win the award. “My entire Nomadland company, what a crazy, once-in-a-lifetime journey we’ve all been on together,” Zhao said. Kathryn Bigelow was the first…

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…

Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” continued its tour of dominance through awards season Sunday, where it won four prizes including best picture at the British Academy Film Awards. One day earlier, Zhao took top honors at the 73rd annual Directors Guild Association Awards. Zhao became only the second woman, and the first woman of color, to win…

Weeks ahead of the 93rd Oscars ceremony, scheduled for April 25 this year, Chinese authorities are said to have ordered state media outlets to downplay the event, with China’s state broadcaster CCTV saying it will cancel its planned live streaming. According to Radio Free Asia (RFA), sources said that the decision was made by the…