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One night, Dave's son visits the restaurant looking for him, telling him that his wife is pregnant and asking him to meet his grandchild. They later take restaurant jobs at Wall Drug in South Dakota. He is working temporarily at Badlands National Park, but when he falls ill with diverticulitis, Fern visits him at the hospital where he has had emergency surgery. They eventually part ways.įern later takes a job as a camp host at the Cedar Pass Campground in Badlands National Park, where she runs into Dave, another nomad she met and danced with back at the desert community. Swankie tells Fern about her cancer diagnosis and shortened life expectancy and her plan to make good memories on the road rather than waste away in a hospital. Swankie, who had put a pirate flag on her van to not be disturbed, chastises Fern for not being prepared and invites her to learn more road survival skills they become good friends. When Fern's van blows a tire, she visits the van of a nearby nomad named Swankie to ask for a ride into town to buy a spare. There, Fern meets fellow nomads and learns basic survival and self-sufficiency skills for the road.
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Fern initially declines but changes her mind as the weather turns cold, and she struggles to find work in the area. Linda, a friend and co-worker, invites Fern to visit a desert rendezvous in Arizona organized by Bob Wells, which provides a support system and community for fellow nomads. She takes a seasonal job at an Amazon fulfillment center through the winter. Fern sells most of her belongings and purchases a van to live in and travel the country searching for work. In 2011, Fern loses her job after the US Gypsum plant in Empire, Nevada, shuts down she had worked there for years along with her husband, who recently died. It also won Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director at the 78th Golden Globe Awards, four awards including Best Film at the 74th British Academy Film Awards, and four awards including Best Film at the 36th Independent Spirit Awards. It is also the first Searchlight or 20th Century Studios release to win Best Picture since The Walt Disney Company acquired the assets of 21st Century Fox, including Searchlight (not including retroactive wins for 20th or Searchlight-released films, nor the four films released by Miramax, the last being 2007's No Country For Old Men, that had won when Disney owned that company). It was the third-highest rated film of 2020 on Metacritic, which found it to be the most frequently ranked by critics and publications as one of the best films of the year.Īt the 93rd Academy Awards, it won Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actress for McDormand, from a total of six nominations Zhao became the first Asian woman and only the second woman ever to win Best Director, while McDormand became the first woman and fourth person ever to win Academy Awards for both acting and producing, as well as becoming the first person ever to win Academy Awards as both producer and performer for the same film. The film was a box office success, grossing $39 million worldwide against its $5 million budget and received widespread critical acclaim for its direction, editing, screenplay and cinematography, as well as the performances of McDormand and Strathairn. It had a one-week streaming limited release on December 4, 2020, and was distributed by Searchlight Pictures in selected IMAX theaters in the United States on January 29, 2021, and simultaneously in theaters, and streaming digitally on Hulu, on February 19, 2021. It also won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival.
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Nomadland premiered on September 11, 2020, at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion. A number of real-life nomads appear as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells. David Strathairn also stars in a supporting role. Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, the film stars Frances McDormand (who is also a producer on the film) as a van-dwelling working nomad who leaves her home after her husband dies and the sole industry in her town closes down, to be "houseless" and travel around the United States. Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written for the screen, produced, edited, and directed by Chloé Zhao.