List of awards and nominations received by Chloé Zhao
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Chloé Zhao is a Chinese filmmaker known for her films Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), The Rider (2018), Nomadland (2020), Eternals (2021), and Hamnet (2025). Zhao set many records with her 2020 film Nomadland, including becoming the first woman of color to win the Academy Award for Best Director, as well as the second woman to ever win Best Director awards from the Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and British Academy Film Awards. With her 2025 film Hamnet, Zhao became the only director to have won the Toronto International Film Festival People's Choice Award twice, and only the second woman and the first woman of color to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director twice. She was also nominated alongside Maggie O'Farrell for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.