Just a quick aside, regarding her filming Nomadland and Eternals. She filmed them back to back, and not at the same time.
While the Oscars may have awarded her due to the reasons you provided, it is still speculation, and takes away her actual accomplishments as a director.
It gets a little tiring when someone wins and their status as a minority/gender/whatever is touted as a reason rather then just acknowledging that it may have been deserved.
While the Oscars may have awarded her due to the reasons you provided, it is still speculation, and takes away her actual accomplishments as a director.
It gets a little tiring when someone wins and their status as a minority/gender/whatever is touted as a reason rather then just acknowledging that it may have been deserved.
"... Zhao was shooting Nomadland at the same time that she was prepping Eternals, her forthcoming Marvel Studios debut that remains shrouded in secrecy, and an exercise in world-building that spans millennia.
Zhao – a self-described Marvel "fan" – had pitched the story, based on Jack Kirby's lesser-known 70s comics, about a team of humanoids forced to leave their hide-out on Earth to battle an ancient enemy.
The project sounds galaxies apart from her resolutely down-to-earth dramas, which are punctuated by moments of stillness and natural beauty.
And yet Zhao reportedly was able to bring her intimate approach to the franchise film: occasionally filming on location, using the same camera rig, magic-hour light, and personalising the alien characters played by her A-list ensemble (the roll-call includes Salma Hayek, Kumail Nanjiani, Brian Tyree Henry, Richard Madden, Harry Styles and Angelina Jolie)."
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-03-...rnals/13213660
To the other point: If Hollywood ever stops trying to shape public societal thought and opinion to conform to their current short lived fashionable notions, people might be less inclined to believe that their choices are prejudiced.