Frances McDormand stars in this title directed by Chloe Zhao. The film, which comes to Disney + through Star on April 30, has won three Hollywood Film Academy Awards.
Nomadland, the film directed by Chloe Zhao and starring Frances McDormand, arrives on April 30 on Disney + via Star. The film lands on the streaming platform, winning three Oscars: Best Film, Best Director, and Best Actress. At SensaCine we collect everything you need to know about one of the movies of the moment.
A STORY BASED ON REAL PEOPLE.
Nomadland is not a true story, but it is based on real people. The film is inspired by the book by journalist Jessica Bruder Nomad Country: Survivors of the 21st Century. In it, Bruder talks about the ‘workampers’, nomads who travel the United States in caravan looking for work and who live in their vehicles.
Fern, the protagonist of Nomadland played by McDormand, is one more ‘workamper’. She is a widowed woman who has lost everything in the economic crisis at the beginning of the century. Faced with this situation, she decides to leave her home and move to live in a caravan, becoming a nomad. The film also has actor David Strathairn in its cast, but the rest of the people who appear in it are real nomads. This is the case of Linda May, Charlene Swankie, and Bob Wells.
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A FILM THAT HAS BROKEN RECORDS.
Nomadland made history at the last Golden Globes before the Oscars. Zhao won the Hollywood Foreign Inmate Association award for Best Director. This led to the filmmaker becoming the first Asian woman to take home the award and the second director to do so in 78 years. The first was Barbra Streisand by Yentl in 1984 . On the other hand, Zhao is also the most awarded person in a single awards season.
At the Oscars, on the other hand, Zhao has become the first Asian woman to win the Best Director award. Also, the second woman to do so after Kathryn Bigelow in 2009 for On Hostile Ground.
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CENSORED IN CHINA.
Despite the great success that Nomadland is reaping, the film has been censored in China. Days after the film won the Golden Globe for Best Drama Film and Best Director, comments Zhao made in 2013 about the Chinese government resurfaced on the Internet, and references to the director and the film began to disappear from the film.
The statements, in particular, are ones made by Zhao – born in Beijing – in which she described being a teenager in China as “a place where lies are everywhere. “
FRANCES McDormand: BECOMING FERN.
McDormand, who is also a producer on the film, worked her character in Nomadland thoroughly. In addition to sleeping in the trailer that Fern lives in in the film, the filming of the film involved being on the road for five months across seven different states. The interpreter, who was 61 years old at the time, had a caregiver to watch over her in the face of this drastic change in life.
Not only that. He managed to enter the world of royal nomads because they did not know he was a star in Hollywood. In addition, during filming, he was offered a job at Target. “In one city, in Nebraska, I went to a Target location and they offered me a job. They offered me a form to fill out. I went to Chloe and said, ‘It’s working!’ McDormand has told about the event.
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THE OTHER OSCARS BY FRANCES McDormand.
McDormand has already won two Oscars before the third for Nomadland. One of them was in 1997 for Fargo and the other in 2018 for Three Ads on the Outskirts. Secondly, because, as we told you in our review, Zhao has achieved “a great film” that “can reach a lot of people, which can move a lot of people thanks to its formal austerity and its ontological sincerity, its spirit. ”
FROM ‘NOMADLAND’ TO ‘ETERNALS’
Zhao is also one of the directors of Phase 4 of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, has had nothing but good words for the work he has done behind the scenes at Eternals. What’s more, Feige stressed that the presentation made by the filmmaker has been the best she has heard so far. “Zhao doesn’t just make remarkable, small, and personal movies in a remarkable, small, and personal way; she thinks in grandiose, cosmic, and gigantic terms that perfectly fit what we wanted to do. Eternals is a very big, broad, multi-millennial story. she has done it, “Feige said.