Chloé Zhao at the Oscars 2021

Chloé Zhao at the Oscars 2021: the first Asian woman to win best director, for Nomadland, on how China influenced her, why directing Marvel’s Eternals is a dream come true, and ‘the power of storytelling’
Zhao made Academy Award history as the second woman to win an Oscar for best director after Kathryn Bigelow for The Hurt Locker in 2010
Before Covid-19 hit, Zhao was filming Eternals in the UK and the Canary Islands with Angelina Jolie, Kit Harington, Richard Madden and Salma Hayek
Chloé Zhao is all anyone can talk about right now. The filmmaker from China just made history as the first Asian woman to win best director at the Oscars for her work on Nomadland - among other awards for the film - and she is keen to credit her peers at the momentous occasion.
“For Asian filmmakers, for all filmmakers, we have to stay true to who we are, and we have to tell the stories that we feel connected to,” she says in the post-award interview. “We shouldn’t feel like there is only a certain type of story we have to tell. It’s a way for us to connect with other people. That is why I love filmmaking. And hopefully a lot of the stories, brilliant stories we tell tonight, like Tyler Perry said … [will help] stop hate, hate for anybody.”
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Love her fangirling over Bigelow!