A nationalist backlash to Golden Globe-winning American road movie “Nomadland” has cast doubt over the film’s China release after social media users and state media questioned its director Chloe Zhao’s loyalty to her birth country.
Zhao became the first Asian woman in history to win the best director Golden Globe and the first woman to win best drama with the semi-fictional film, which stars Oscar winner Frances McDormand alongside a rag-tag bunch of non-actors living on the open road in the American West.
Zhao’s win last week was initially celebrated in China, with state media calling the Beijing-born filmmaker a “Chinese female director” and “the pride of China.”
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