Chloe Zhao created the history of the Oscars.
The 39-year-old filmmaker is the first Asian-American woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director, who took home a golden statue for “Nomad” on Sunday.
“My Puri-Nomadland ‘company has gone crazy for a lifetime together. I am very grateful to you, ”he told Union Station in LA.
“I’ve been thinking lately about how I’m going to get to where things get tough and I think this is something I’ve learned when I was a kid growing up in China with Dad and I was in this Will play the game, ”he said and began reciting a poem he had learned as a child in the Chinese language.
“People at birth are perfectly good,” she said. “Even though at times it may seem that the opposite is true, but I have always found goodness in people found everywhere in the world.”
He holds up his Oscar and says: “This is for anyone who has the confidence and courage to capture the good in themselves and the good in each other, no matter how difficult it is.”
Zhao nominated along with Lee Isaac Chung (“Minari”), David Fincher (“Manc”), Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”) and Thomas Winterberg (“Another Round”).
“Nomadland” was also nominated for Best Picture, Best Film Editing and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Frances MacDormand-front drama also won a major victory at the Golden Globe Awards earlier this year. The film earned well for Best Screenplay and received awards for Best Director and Best Motion Picture – Drama, making Zhao not only the first Asian-American woman to win the Globe for Best Director, but the second woman to win for Directing Also made. Zhao follows in the footsteps of Barbara Strysand, who was the first woman to score the Best Director Globe for “Yantle” in 1984.
“I think trying to see and understand the world from the other person’s perspective is the only way we can survive as a species,” Zhao said in his speech. “Now that’s why I fell in love with making movies and telling stories because it gives us a chance to laugh and cry together, and it gives us a chance to learn from each other and have more compassion for each other. . “
The Chinese-origin writer / director said, “So thank you all who made it possible for me to love you.”
Zhao’s victory is also an important one as two female directors are included in this year’s Oscar lineup. So far, only five women were recognized in the category. Lena Wertmuller was the first woman to receive a nomination for “Seven Beauties” in 1977. Catherine Bigelow was the only woman to win the Best Director Oscar for her work in 2009’s “The Hurt Locker”.
Oscar nominations for Chung, 42, and Zhao have also faced two directors of Asian descent for the first time this year. There are only five Asian nominees to begin with Hiroshi Tashigahara’s 1966 film “Woman in the Dunes”. Zhao is the third Asian-American to win the award, following the victories of Aung Lee and Bong Joon-ho. Lee won in 2006 for “Brokeback Mountain” and in 2013 for “Life of Pie”. Joon-ho received the award in 2020 for “Parasite”.
Other recent Champs in this category are the 2019 Netflix drama “Roma,” Guillermo del Toro for “The Shape of Water” in 2018, and Damien Chazelle for “La La Land” in 2017.
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