Oscar Winners 2021: Nomadland, Chlo� Zhao, Anthony Hopkins, Frances McDormand, and More!

Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film directed by Chlo� Zhao, who also wrote, edited, and co-produced. The film is based on the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, and stars Frances McDormand as a woman who leaves her small town to travel around the American West.

Chlo� Zhao is a Chinese filmmaker, known primarily for her work on independent films. With Nomadland, she became the first woman of color and the second woman ever to win the Oscar for Best Director.

Anthony Hopkins is a Welsh actor, director, and producer. He won the Best Actor Oscar for his role in The Father, where he plays an aging man who must deal with his progressing memory loss.

Frances McDormand is an American actress and producer, known for her portrayals of unique, quirky, and complex characters. In Nomadland, she plays a woman who embarks on a journey through the American West after losing everything during the recession.

Daniel Kaluuya is a British actor and writer. He won the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Judas and the Black Messiah, where he plays Fred Hampton, a chairman of the Illinois chapter of the Black Panther Party in late-1960s Chicago.

Yuh-Jung Youn is a South Korean actress. She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her role in Minari, where she plays the grandmother of a family of South Korean immigrants trying to make it in rural America during the 1980s.