Chloé Zhao

Award won Role or nomination

1. 1982 age 0

   Born

2. 2020 age 38

   CreditNomadlanddirector

   CreditNomadlandfilm editor

   CreditNomadlandproducer

   CreditNomadlandscreenwriter

3. 2021 age 39

   CreditEternalsdirector

   CreditEternalsscreenwriter

4. 2025 age 43

   CreditHamnetdirector

   CreditHamnetfilm editor

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• RDRamin Djawadi1 title
• KHKit Harington1 title
• RMRichard Madden1 title
• SSSteven Spielberg1 title
• KFKevin Feige1 title
• DSDavid Strathairn1 title
• JKJack Kirby1 title
• CWCraig Wood1 title
• DTDylan Tichenor1 title
• BDBen Davis1 title

• It goes back to when I was a teenager in China, being in a place where there are lies everywhere. You felt like you were never going to be able to get out. A lot of info I received when I was younger was not true, and I became very rebellious toward my family and my background. I went to England suddenly and relearned my history. Studying political science in a liberal arts college was a way for me to figure out what is real. Arm yourself with information, and then challenge that too.

  Chloé Zhao, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I love movies that don’t necessarily tell me how I should feel or how I should think but give me this canvas that I can go away and have a conversation with myself and people around me.

  Chloé Zhao, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I have gone through ups and downs in my relatively short career. And one thing I’ve learned is a bit of a cliché, but everything does happen for a reason.

  Chloé Zhao, CC BY-SA 4.0

• The one thing that I learned really early on is that you’ve got to surround yourself with the right people. Because you can’t change how people think — you can’t control how they’re going to think, how they’re going to behave. But what you can do is make sure the people that are around you not only protect you but want to be with you because of who you are as an individual. I’ve been lucky in my whole career so far. Every single film we’ve made, I’m surrounded by people like that.

  Chloé Zhao, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Someone I really respect and have been working with recently said to me, “You have to know that you have power. Know that you don’t have to fight so hard that you’re just on survival mode all the time. People around you are there to help you and they will be there when you fail. It’s okay to ask for help.”

  Chloé Zhao, CC BY-SA 4.0

• I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. I don’t think I can pinpoint why my upbringing or experiences have made me that way, but I have always been an outsider myself; it doesn’t matter where I went. I’m attracted to people who are on the periphery of society. I’ve been like this since high school. I liked mangas growing up and the ones I was drawn to were not about mainstream characters.

  Chloé Zhao, CC BY-SA 4.0