‘Nomadland’ Oscar-Nominated film To Release In India Next Month
The Frances McDormand-starrer and Oscar-nominated and multiple award-winning films, Nomadland will release in India on April 2. This film nominated in six categories at the upcoming Oscar Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress, and has won the Best Picture and Best Director awards at Golden Globes Awards 2021.
The official synopsis reads “Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad,” According to director Chloe Zhao, the quintessentially American film is set on the road and populated by individuals “who are part of the pioneer culture”, though the themes of the story are relevant in any part of the world.
The 38-year-old filmmaker feels the film is about compassion, connection, and adventure and is also a resonant story for the challenging times we are currently navigating. “The story looks at the question — When you lose everything that defines who you are, can you find yourself again?” Zhao says. And at its heart, she concludes, “( the film) is about all those things that unite us as people; it’s about friendship and love.”
Chloé’s Nomadland Golden Globe win for Best Director was history-making as the filmmaker became the second woman (after Barbra Streisand in 1984 for Yenti) and the first Asian woman to do so. Zhao is also the first woman of Asian descent to be nominated for Best Director in the Academy Awards’ 93-year history.