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Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao.Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves her life in Nevada to travel around the United States in her van as a nomad.
The film's supporting cast includes David Strathairn, as well as real-life nomads Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells, as fictionalized versions of themselves. Nomadland had a one-week streaming limited release on December 4, 2020, and was released by Searchlight Pictures in selected IMAX theaters in the United States on January 29, 2021, and ...
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century is a 2017 nonfiction book by American journalist Jessica Bruder about the phenomenon of older Americans who, following the Great Recession from 2007 to 2009, adopted transient lifestyles traveling around the United States in search of seasonal work (vandwelling).
Linda May and Swankie, two of the featured performers in “Nomadland,” are attending the Oscars. The two nonprofessional actors are the plus-ones of Chloé Zhao (nominated for four Academy ...
In another timeline, filmmaker Chloé Zhao would have had one helluva end to 2020: The plan was to release both of her new films back-to-back -- first, her superhero blockbuster, Eternals ...
Chloé Zhao, director of the indie darling "Nomadland," has made history as the most-awarded filmmaker in a single awards season. Zhao's film, about a woman who travels the country in a van after ...
For her book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century (2017), [9] she spent months living in a camper van named Van Halen, documenting itinerant Americans who gave up traditional housing to hit the road full-time. [10]
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - "Nomadland," the story of van dwellers in America, won the best picture Oscar and two other Academy Awards on a triumphant night for women that also saw a return to ...