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Next Question with Katie Couric

Bonus: The making of 'Nomadland' with director Chloé Zhao

Next Question with Katie Couric

Katie Couric Media

News, Health, Society & Culture, Commentary, Documentary,, Health & Fitness

4.44.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2021

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

The Oscars are on the horizon and though it’s been a strange year for the movie industry, the race for the golden statue is nothing short of historic. Notably, there is not one but two women nominated for best director: Emerald Fennell, for “Promising Young Woman,” starring Carrie Mulligan, and Chloé Zhao for “Nomadland,” starring Frances McDormand. “Nomadland” was also written by Zhao who based her screenplay on the non-fictional book, “Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century,” by journalist Jessica Bruder. Frances McDormand’s Fern — a fictionalized amalgam of people in Bruder’s book — is a woman living out of her van, traveling the country working seasonal jobs and meeting a community of like-minded itinerant Americans along the way. On this special bonus episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, Katie gets to go behind the scenes of this extraordinary, beautiful and strangely prescient film in a roundtable discussion with the director Chloé Zhao as well as three producers, Peter Spears, Mollye Asher and Dan Janvey. Stream “Nomadland” on Hulu.

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0:00.0

Hi everyone, I'm Katie Curric and this is next question.

0:07.2

The Oscars are on the horizon and though it's been a strange year for the movie industry,

0:12.1

the race for the Golden Statue is nothing short of historic.

0:16.4

Notably, there is not one but two women nominated for Best Director.

0:21.8

And I know you're probably rolling your eyes at the Academy's glacial progressive pace,

0:27.1

but it's at least a hopeful sign.

0:29.9

Those historic directors are Emerald Fennel nominated for Promising Young Women,

0:34.8

starring Kering Mulligan and Chloe Zau, nominated for Nomad Land, which stars Frances McDormand

0:41.5

as Furn, a woman living out of her van, traveling the country working seasonal jobs and meeting

0:47.4

a community of like-minded, itinerant Americans along the way.

0:52.2

You were one of those lucky people that can travel anywhere.

0:55.7

Yes, Nair, my man.

0:56.7

I know sometimes call you nomads.

1:00.7

Mom said that's your homeless.

1:04.9

Is that true?

1:06.2

No, I'm not.

1:07.2

Homeless.

1:08.2

I'm just houseless.

1:10.2

Not the same thing, right?

1:12.2

No.

1:13.2

Chloe, I should note, is the first woman to receive four nominations in a single year

1:19.0

and the first non-white woman to be nominated in the director category.

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