Chloe Zhao’s “Nomadland” won this year’s top Hollywood directing award Saturday — the final major guild ceremony before the Oscars, and an important late bellwether in Tinseltown’s pandemic-delayed and mainly virtual award season.
Andrew Marszal
LA correspondent @AFP, previously Hong Kong, Delhi & London.
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