Angels. Born in Beijing but fascinated by western usa, manager BedouinChloe Chow has Hollywood in her hands with many prestigious award nominations and the Marvel superhero on the way.
The 38-year-old director was nominated for four Oscars on Monday, including Best Director and Best Picture. Road movie Intimate group of declassified Americans who travel the country in trucks to do temporary jobs
She is the first woman to receive four Academy Award nominations in a year, and the first non-white woman to be nominated for the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Award for Best Director, just two weeks after she won the historic Golden Globe as a director. .
He said in a statement to the American media: “Thank you very much to my academic colleagues for their appreciation of this film, which is very close to my heart.”
Located in the breathtaking landscapes of unknown and sparsely populated states like South Dakota and Nebraska, Bedouin It is the Chinese artist’s last love letter to the vast and wild spaces of her adopted homeland.
With his first movie, Songs my brothers taught me, About a teenage girl dreaming of a life outside of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Zhao immersed for several months in the lives of Native South Dakota.
Chow discovered images of the Lakota Sioux land while studying cinema in New York. He then envisioned the project to “tell a story that could make things better” for them, as he explained in a recent interview with New York Magazine.
The film won awards at festivals, but the highlights will come two years later The passenger, else Semi-western Filmed at Pine Ridge and nearby Badlands National Park, which I’ll come back to again Bedouin.
Another common theme in Zhao’s films is working with non-professional actors who play semi-fictional versions of themselves.
“I’m not the type of scriptwriter and director who can create her own characters in a single room,” she told the magazine. New York Magazine.
about Bedouin, The director worked with an accomplished actress like Frances McDormand, who Chow inspired her to make her personal journey to play the nomadic role, Verne.
After winning the Golden Globes, Chow celebrated the appreciation this brings to the nomadic community.
“If this means that more people (…) see a person who does not live in a traditional home, lives an alternate lifestyle, and maybe they greet him and say hello, that will make their day,” Zhao told AFP.
Zhao Ting was born the daughter of a wealthy executive of a Chinese iron company, and the director left China as a teenager to attend a British boarding school before finishing her education in Los Angeles and New York, where Spike Lee worked as a teacher.
Zhao’s success was initially celebrated in her home country, where government media described her as “Chen’s pride.” But then a 2013 interview resurfaced as he allegedly described China as “a place where there are lies everywhere,” making it a target for criticism.
Some nationalists have called it a “traitor,” an argument that could jeopardize the film’s premiere Bedouin In China.
Although the film itself has no political overtones, it hints at the brutality of extreme capitalism, which provided no safety net for older Americans.
Something the traveler said during the film was “the most socialist speech I have ever heard, and I’m from China,” Zhao told the Guardian. New York Magazine.
The director resides in Ojai, a small California country town about 150 kilometers northwest of Los Angeles that is steeped in culture. Hippie. He lives there with his partner, a British cinematographer, and two dogs.
While Bedouin Distributed by Searchlight, Disney’s signature feature, Zhao’s next movie is linked to blockbusters associated with major Hollywood studios.
Chow directs Eternal, Which is a Marvel superhero movie that stars such celebrities as Angelina Jolie and Salma Hayek.
In February, it was also announced that Zhao would lead a cover version of Dracula In the code western A science fiction scene by Universal Studios.
It remains to be seen how Zhao handles the transition from freelance author to movie star in Mecca, but for now the focus is on Bedouin And his performance at the Oscars.
“I think it’s fair to say that it has been a wonderful year,” an academy voter told AFP. “It is definitely a strong competitor.”
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