Chloé Zhao Wins 2021 Oscar for Best Director

“Nomadland” director Chloé Zhao has won multiple best director awards this season — the Golden Globe, Independent Spirit Award, Critic’s Choice Award and BAFTA award — and on Sunday night, she topped off that list with the Academy Award. With her win, Zhao became the second female director to ever win the Oscar, following Kathryn Bigelow’s 2009 win for “The Hurt Locker.” Zhao was nominated for the award alongside Emerald Fennell — the first time two women were nominated in the directing category the same year. Fennell won the first category of the night, best original screenplay, for her film “Promising Young Woman.” Director Bong Joon-ho, who won the directing award last year for “Parasite,” presented the award from Dolby Theater in Korea. “I’ve been thinking a lot lately of how I keep going when things get hard, and I think it goes back to something I learned when I was a kid. When I was growing up in China, my dad and I used to play this game; we’d memorize classic Chinese poems and texts, and we’d recite it together and try to finish each other’s sentences. There’s one I remember dearly, it’s called the Three Character Classic,” said Zhao while accepting

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