ESSENTIAL INDUSTRY AND AWARD NEWS
APRIL 15, 2021
The Nomadland Question
Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland has proven to be both celebrated and controversial, racking up Oscar precursor awards even as detractors have criticized it for a scene in which Frances McDormand’s character spends a season working in an Amazon warehouse. Richard Lawson digs into that controversy today, elucidating why a faction of critics are speaking out against the film—and teasing out a few possible explanations for why the film industry’s various awards-giving bodies don’t seem to be bothered by their censure.
Elsewhere in HWD, Savannah Walsh details what you may have missed during the second night of Vanity Fair’s Cocktail Hour, Live! event (which concludes this evening; get your tickets here!); Chris Murphy details one of the night’s most captivating panels, in which Glenn Close took viewers inside her fabulous costume collection; members of the Gucci family speak out against the highly-anticipated (by everyone else, at least) Ridley Scott film House of Gucci; and Jennifer Lopezand Alex Rodriguez announce that they are really, truly broken up after all.
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