“Nomadland” director Chloe Zhao made history at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday, becoming only the second woman to ever win the Golden Globes prize for Best Director and the first woman of Asian descent to earn the award as well.
Before Sunday night, Ang Lee was the last time a filmmaker of Asian descent to win Best Director at the Golden Globes, an award he won for “Brokeback Mountain” at the 2006 ceremony.
Zhao is the first woman to win Best Director at the Golden Globes since Barbra Streisand took home the award for directing “Yentl” at the 1984 ceremony. In the 78-year history of the Golden Globes, only eight women have been nominated for Best Director: Streisand was nominated twice, for “Yentl” and “The Prince of Tides”; Kathryn Bigelow was also nominated twice, for “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty”; Jane Campion for “The Piano,” Sofia Coppola for “Lost in Translation,...
Before Sunday night, Ang Lee was the last time a filmmaker of Asian descent to win Best Director at the Golden Globes, an award he won for “Brokeback Mountain” at the 2006 ceremony.
Zhao is the first woman to win Best Director at the Golden Globes since Barbra Streisand took home the award for directing “Yentl” at the 1984 ceremony. In the 78-year history of the Golden Globes, only eight women have been nominated for Best Director: Streisand was nominated twice, for “Yentl” and “The Prince of Tides”; Kathryn Bigelow was also nominated twice, for “The Hurt Locker” and “Zero Dark Thirty”; Jane Campion for “The Piano,” Sofia Coppola for “Lost in Translation,...
- 3/1/2021
- by Christopher Rosen
- Gold Derby
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