"Born in Beijing, in 1982, she wound up at New York University's film school, where she studied under Spike Lee. Starting in 2015, she directed three small-scale, slow-burn features set in the American heartland: "Songs My Brothers Taught Me," "The Rider," and "Nomadland." All three capture the expansive beauty of the West-in particular South Dakota, with its moonlike badlands and wide, grassy plains-while using local nonprofessional actors to achieve documentary-like naturalism."
""Eternals" was an unloved entry in the M.C.U. canon, but it retained some of the spiritual, searching quality that infused Zhao's indie neo-Westerns. Now another twist: her newest film, "Hamnet," is a period drama set in Elizabethan England. Based on Maggie O'Farrell's award-winning novel, it imagines the answer to a devastating mystery: What, if anything, did the death of William Shakespeare's son, Hamnet, at age eleven, have to do with his writing of "Hamlet," just a few years later?"
Chloé Zhao moved from Beijing to New York University's film school and made three small-scale, slow-burn films set in the American heartland that use local nonprofessional actors for documentary-like naturalism. Nomadland earned the 2021 Oscar for Best Picture and won Zhao the Best Director Oscar, making her the first woman of color to win that category. Zhao subsequently directed Marvel's Eternals, which kept a spiritual, searching quality despite mixed reception. Her newest film, Hamnet, adapts Maggie O'Farrell's novel into an Elizabethan period drama exploring whether the death of Shakespeare's son influenced the creation of Hamlet.
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