Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland Takes Top Prize at 2020 Venice Film Festival
The Rider’s
director Chloé Zhao has won the Golden Lion at Venice’s socially distanced film festival with her entry
Nomadland, starring Frances McDormand. Zhao is the first women to take the top prize in exactly a decade, since
Sofia Coppola won in 2010 with her film
Somewhere, and the fifth woman in history to win the Venice Film Festival’s top prize
. Unlike last year’s Golden Lion winner,
Joker,
Zhao’s
Nomadland has received almost unanimous critical praise thus far. The film follows Frances McDormand as a widow in a Nevada mining town decimated after the Great Recession who chooses to embark on a life on the open road.
https://www.vulture.com/2020/09/venice-film-festival-complete-winners-list-nomadland.html
Zhao studied at Mount Holyoke College earning a bachelor's degree in political science.[6] She worked odd jobs as a party promoter, in real estate, and bartending before studying film production at New York University Tisch School of the Arts.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloé_Zhao?
