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Golden Globes 2021: Chloé Zhao makes history and becomes second female ever to win best director

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Chloé Zhao makes history and becomes second female ever to win best director at Golden Globes (Picture: Getty)

Filmmaker Chloé Zhao made history at the Golden Globes this year, as she became the second ever female to win the award for best director.

On Sunday night the Golden Globes aired virtually, with British stars among those winning big, including The Crown’s Emma Corrin and Josh O’Connor.

However, it was the best director category that saw history made as Zhao not only became the first ever Asian filmmaker to bag the award for her film Nomadland, but the second female to do so too.

The first female to win best director at the Golden Globes was Barbara Streisand who won the accolade almost four decades ago in 1984 for her movie Yentl.

This year saw a Golden Globes first as three women were nominated in the best director category, with Zhao joining Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) and Regina King (One Night In Miami…).

Until 2021, only five women had even been nominated in the category.

Naturally, fans and stars alike were seen celebrating Zhao’s historic win on social media, with Streisand leading the praise, as she tweeted: ‘It’s about time! Congratulations Chloé! Well deserved!’

Sunnyside star Kiran Deol posted: ‘Chloe Zhao sitting there alone with her green mug no fancy lighting casually breaking director ceilings TAKES THE NIGHT HONEY.’

Riverdale star Cami Mendes (who plays Veronica Lodge in The CW series) shared Zhao’s win to her Instagram story and wrote: ‘To add some context the first woman the first woman that won best director was Barbara Streisand for Yentl which was released in 1983.’

Zhao was the first ever Asian woman to be win best director (Picture: Getty)

Accepting her award, a tearful Zhao said: ‘I especially want to thank the nomads who shared their stories with us.’

She shared a quote from nomad Bob Wells that said: ‘Compassion is a breakdown of all barriers between us, a heart-to-heart bonding. Your pain is my pain. It’s mingled and shared between us.’

‘This is why I fell in love with making movies and telling stories,’ Zhao said. ‘Because it gives us a chance to laugh and cry together, and a chance to learn from each other and have more compassion for each other.’

She continued: ‘Nomadland at its core for me is a pilgrimage through grief and healing. So for everyone who has gone through this difficult and beautiful journey at some point in their lives, this is for you. We don’t say goodbye, we say, “See you down the road.”‘

Other winners on the night included Sacha Baron Cohen, Mark Ruffalo, The Queen’s Gambit star Anya Taylor-Joy and Chadwick Boseman, who received a posthumous best actor award for his role in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.



Golden Globes 2021 winners and nominees

Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy

  • The Flight Attendant
  • The Great
  • Emily in Paris
  • Ted Lasso
  • WINNER: Schitt’s Creek

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Drama

  • Jason Bateman, Ozark
  • Bob Odenkirk, Better Call Saul
  • Al Pacino, Hunters
  • Matthew Rhys, Perry Mason
  • WINNER: Josh O’Connor, The Crown

Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television 

  • Cate Blanchett, Mrs. America
  • Shira Haas, Unorthodox
  • Nicole Kidman, The Undoing
  • Daisy Edgar-Jones, Normal People
  • WINNER: Anya Taylor-Joy, The Queen’s Gambit

Best Director – Motion Picture

  • Emerald Fennell, Promising Young Woman
  • David Fincher, Mank
  • Regina King, One Night in Miami 
  • Aaron Sorkin, The Trial of the Chicago 7 
  • WINNER: Chloé Zhao, Nomadland

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy 

  • Maria Bakalova, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 
  • Michelle Pfeiffer, French Exit
  • Anya Taylor-Joy, Emma
  • Kate Hudson, Music
  • WINNER: Rosamund Pike, I Care a Lot

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama

  • Riz Ahmed, Sound of Metal
  • Anthony Hopkins, The Father 
  • Gary Oldman, Mank
  • Tahar Rahim, The Mauritanian
  • WINNER: Chadwick Boseman, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Best Television Series – Drama 

  • Lovecraft Country
  • The Mandalorian
  • Ozark
  • Ratched
  • WINNER: The Crown

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Drama 

  • Olivia Colman, The Crown
  • Jodie Comer, Killing Eve
  • Laura Linney, Ozark
  • Sarah Paulson, Ratched
  • WINNER: Emma Corrin, The Crown

Best Performance by an Actor in a Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television 

  • Bryan Cranston, Your Honor
  • Jeff Daniels, The Comey Rule
  • Hugh Grant, The Undoing 
  • Ethan Hawke, The Good Lord Bird 
  • WINNER: Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much Is True 

Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy

  • James Corden, The Prom
  • Lin-Manuel Miranda, Hamilton
  • Dev Patel, The Personal History of David Copperfield
  • Andy Samberg, Palm Springs
  • WINNER: Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 

Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama

  • Viola Davis, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom 
  • Vanessa Kirby, Pieces of a Woman
  • Frances McDormand, Nomadland
  • Carey Mulligan, Promising Young Woman
  • WINNER: Andra Day, The United States vs. Billie Holiday 

Best Motion Picture – Drama 

  • The Father
  • Mank
  • Promising Young Woman
  • The Trial of the Chicago 7
  • WINNER: Nomadland 

Best Actor in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture

  • Sacha Baron Cohen, The Trial of the Chicago 7 
  • Jared Leto, The Little Things
  • Bill Murray, On the Rocks
  • Leslie Odom, Jr., One Night in Miami
  • WINNER: Daniel Kaluuya, Judas and the Black Messiah

Best Original Score – Motion Picture 

  • The Midnight Sky, Alexandre Desplat 
  • Tenet, Ludwig Göransson 
  • News of the World, James Newton Howard 
  • Mank, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross 
  • WINNER: Soul, Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross, Jon Batiste 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy 

  • Lily Collins, Emily in Paris
  • Kaley Cuoco, The Flight Attendant
  • Elle Fanning, The Great 
  • Jane Levy, Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
  • WINNER: Catherine O’Hara, Schitt’s Creek

Best Television Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television 

  • Normal People
  • Small Axe 
  • The Undoing
  • Unorthodox
  • WINNER: The Queen’s Gambit

Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television 

  • Brendan Gleeson, The Comey Rule
  • Dan Levy, Schitt’s Creek
  • Jim Parsons, Hollywood
  • Donald Sutherland, The Undoing
  • WINNER: John Boyega, Small Axe

Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy 

  • Hamilton
  • Palm Springs 
  • Music
  • The Prom
  • WINNER: Borat Subsequent Moviefilm

Best Actress in a Supporting Role in Any Motion Picture 

  • Glenn Close, Hillbilly Elegy 
  • Olivia Colman, The Father
  • Amanda Seyfried, Mank 
  • Helena Zengel, News of the World
  • WINNER: Jodie Foster, The Mauritanian

Best Motion Picture – Foreign Language 

  • Another Round
  • La Llorona
  • The Life Ahead 
  • Two of Us
  • WINNER: Minari

Best Screenplay – Motion Picture 

  • Promising Young Woman
  • Mank
  • The Father
  • Nomadland
  • WINNER: The Trial of the Chicago 7

Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series – Musical or Comedy 

  • Don Cheadle, Black Monday
  • Nicholas Hoult, The Great 
  • Eugene Levy, Schitt’s Creek 
  • Ramy Youssef, Ramy
  • WINNER: Jason Sudeikis, Ted Lasso 

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Limited Series or Motion Picture Made for Television 

  • Helena Bonham Carter, The Crown 
  • Julia Garner, Ozark
  • Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek 
  • Cynthia Nixon, Ratched
  • WINNER: Gillian Anderson, The Crown 

Best Original Song – Motion Picture

  • Fight for You from Judas and the Black Messiah – H.E.R., Dernst Emile II, Tiara Thomas 
  • Hear My Voice” from The Trial of the Chicago 7 – Daniel Pemberton, Celeste
  • Speak Now from One Night in Miami – Leslie Odom Jr, Sam Ashworth 
  • Tigress & Tweed from The United States vs. Billie Holliday
  • WINNER: Io Si (Seen) from The Life Ahead – Diane Warren, Laura Pausini, Niccolò Agliardi 

Best Motion Picture – Animated 

  • The Croods: A New Age
  • Onward
  • Over the Moon
  • Wolfwalkers
  • WINNER: Soul

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