Meet Chloé Zhao, the Director of Nomadland
The Basics on Chloé Zhao, the First Asian Woman to Earn a Golden Globe Nom For Directing
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Back in 2018, Zhao mused to Vogue about the kind of storyteller she wanted to be, and landed on one major thing: hope. "At a time like this, there's a need to see that there's good in America. We're always being told that we have to win all the time. But that's not real life," she said. "Our film's message isn't the typical Hollywood ending. [The protagonist] has lost something, but he doesn't give up. He never would."
She added, "I would never want to make a film without hope."