Chloe Zhao, winner of the awards for best picture and director for Nomadland Image: Chris Pizzello/PA Images Chloe Zhao, winner of the awards for best picture and director for Nomadland Image: Chris Pizzello/PA Images NOMADLAND WAS THE big winner at last night’s Oscars ceremony, where the film picked up three major wins including a history-making award for director Chloe Zhao.
But there was no win for Kilkenny-based Cartoon Saloon, whose Wolfwalkers was beaten by Pixar’s Soul in the best animated feature category. With movie theatres closed all year, and blockbuster content delayed, her film captured the pandemic zeitgeist with its stunning portrait of the isolated margins of society.
“What a crazy, once-in-a-lifetime journey we went on together,” said Zhao to her crew and cast including the real-life “nomads” who played fictionalised versions of themselves in the movie, and were in attendance in Los Angeles. The film, adapted by French playwright Florian Zeller from his own stage production, also won best adapted screenplay in a category that also included Nomadland. Zeller accepted his award from Paris.“How can I win over Glenn Close?” she said, acknowledging her fellow nominee, who has a joint-record eight acting nominations but no wins in her career.
Promising Young Woman won best original screenplay, the night’s first award. Emerald Fennell, who was seven months pregnant when she shot the thriller, thanked her son who “did not arrive until a couple of weeks after shooting, thank God, because I was crossing my legs”.
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