Backlash in China state media outlets that previously feted the 1st female Asian film director (Chloé Zhao #赵婷) to win a Golden Globe #金球奖 for best director this past Sunday—China now questions Zhao’s “Chinese cred”—despite being born in Beijing in 1982. #Nomadland #无依之地
https://twitter.com/variety/status/1367918942375702529
[Describing why] she was drawn to early American heartland subjects b/c of her China upbringing—and “being in a place where there are lies everywhere”—2013 Filmmaker Magazine interview excerpt Chloé Zhao #赵婷 gave poss causing CCP censors to rethink support #Nomadland #无依之地
Chloé Zhao #赵婷 is the 1st woman to win the best director category at the Golden Globes in 37yrs—and is only the 2nd woman ever (previous was Barbra Streisand for YENTL in 1984) to win best director for a feature film—Nomadland #无依之地 @goldenglobes #GoldenGlobes #金球奖 #電影
https://twitter.com/goldenglobes/status/1366247911093321731
Given Chloé Zhao #赵婷 is the most awarded filmmaker in an awards season for NOMADLAND,—w/34 awards for directing, 13 for screenplay & 9 for editing—despite China’s sensitivities, she is in all likelihood destined to be the 1st Asian woman to win an Oscar. #AcademyAwards #奥斯卡 
While Beijing apparently decided to now censure Chloé Zhao #赵婷—over the single sentence comment she uttered ~10yrs ago in @FilmmakerMag—she remains hugely popular for her historic accomplishment. China’s harsh actions only undermine its own potential ‘model’ as a world leader.
https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1366233082630705154
The film #Nomadland #无依之地 was granted state approval for a 23 April limited theatrical release via the National Arthouse Alliance of Cinemas (NAAC) in Feb—but now appears in jeopardy & unlikely to be shown in theaters of Zhao’s original birthplace -- China. #censorship #审查
https://twitter.com/variety/status/1366630727916400642
“In China they don’t consider her Chinese—and in the US they don’t take her as American. She’s truly in ‘Nomadland.’” —a China Weibo #微博 user post describing the controversial happenstance of Chloé Zhao’s citizenship #无依之地 #Nomadland
In spite of Beijing’s short shifted censorship of one of its own—Zhao’s future is incredibly bright w/the upcoming 5 Nov release of Marvel’s superhero film “Eternals”—which incl an A-list cast of Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek @salmahayek & Kumail Nanjiani @kumailn #Eternals #永恆族
Given the 93rd #AcademyAwards are 25 April, “Oscar-winning director Chloé Zhao" will def be a part of Marvel’s #TheEternals #永恆族 release pkg—publicity that’ll cement Zhao’s rep as a global phenom; showing China’s cancel cultural to be on history’s wrong side. @marvel_eternals
https://twitter.com/erickweber/status/1364003367895199748
From jubilant: “The Pride of China!” to shunned for being wrongly quoted: “The US is now my country, ultimately”—is China’s cancel culture gambit a losing one—on likely the 1st ever Chinese woman to win an Oscar #奥斯卡 for directing? #Nomadland #无依之地 @amyyqin @amy_changchien
https://twitter.com/nytimesworld/status/1368279391655104523
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