It is also the first Searchlight release to win Best Picture since the studio's ownership under Walt Disney Studios, following Disney's acquisition of the 21st Century Fox assets. Zhao became the first Asian woman and the second woman ever to win Best Director McDormand became the first woman and fourth person to win Academy Awards for both acting and producing, and the first person ever to win Academy Awards as producer and performer for the same film. It was the third-highest rated film of 2020 on Metacritic, which found it to be the most frequently ranked by critics and publications as one of the best films of the year.Īt the 93rd Academy Awards, it won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress for McDormand, from a total of six nominations.

The film was a box office success, grossing $39 million worldwide against its $5 million budget and received widespread critical acclaim for its direction, editing, screenplay and cinematography, as well as the performances of McDormand and Strathairn. It had a one-week streaming limited release on December 4, 2020, and was distributed by Searchlight Pictures in selected IMAX theaters in the United States on January 29, 2021, and simultaneously in theaters, and streaming digitally on Hulu, on February 19, 2021. It also won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Nomadland premiered on September 11, 2020, at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. A number of real-life nomads appear as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells. David Strathairn also stars in a supporting role.

Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves to travel around the United States in her van as a nomad.

I can survive Amazon.' But you also ache for the ones without even this option, who don’t even merit a mention.Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao. You ache for the Gulf War veteran who tells Bruder, 'I survived the Army. These omissions don’t doom the book but they do mark it. Not to mention that in the light of the death of Philando Castile, among others. She writes that 'there is hope on the road' - a blinkered view in 2017, after the passage of Arizona SB 1070, which required law enforcement to request the immigration papers of anyone suspected of being in the country illegally (portions of the bill have since been overturned). More than most, it’s able to comfortably contain various contradictions. Nomadland is part of a fleet of recent books about the gig economy. an important if frustrating new work influenced by such classics of immersion journalism as Barbara Ehrenreich’s Nickel and Dimed.

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