Chinese filmmaker Chloe Zhao’s ‘Nomadland’ wins four Bafta awards including best picture, director
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Chinese filmmaker Chloe Zhao’s US recession drama Nomadland, about a community of van dwellers, was the big winner at Britain’s Bafta awards on Sunday.
Zhao became only the second woman to win the Bafta for best director, and star Frances McDormand was named best actress. Nomadland also took the cinematography prize.
The British Academy of Film and Television Arts ceremony was held virtually over two nights, with nominees joining in by video, because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
However, film stars Hugh Grant and Priyanka Chopra Jonas appeared in person at London’s Royal Albert Hall while Renée Zellweger and Anna Kendrick joined from a Los Angeles studio to present the awards.
Nomadland, which has already picked up prizes this awards season, stars 63-year-old McDormand as a widow, who in the wake of the US economic recession, turns her van into a mobile home and sets out on the road, taking on seasonal jobs along the way.