Chloé Zhao's 2025-26 awards contender "Hamnet" wasn't just an emotional journey for its stars and their characters — because the director herself also had to look inward in order to take on a story such as Shakespeare's.

Anita Rani speaks to the Beijing-born director Chloé Zhao about her career and her latest film, Hamnet. Zhao made history in 2021 when, at the age of just 39, she became the first woman of colour - and, at the time, only the second woman ever - to win the best director award at the Oscars.

The Oscar-winning filmmakers connect via Zoom for a deeply personal conversation about Zhao’s awards season favorite in this exclusive video.

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Zhao initially turned down adapting and directing Hamnet, as she neither grow up with Western reverence for Shakespeare nor felt a cultural connection to his grief-filled family life. But after reading Maggie O’Farrell’s book, she felt something intimate and universal that drew her in.

“Hamnet” serves as a reminder of what an odd fit filmmaker Chloé Zhao was for the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Chinese-born writer-director followed up her 2020 Academy Award-winning “Nomadland” with 2021’s “Eternals,” a big-budget ...

Chloe Zhao's emotionally sensitive direction and Buckley's extraordinary performance elevate this modern take on Shakespeare's grief into a beautifully crafted tearjerker. Read more at straitstimes.com.

The filmmaker Chloé Zhao and the novelist-turned-screenwriter Maggie O’Farrell explained the changes they made in the tale of Shakespeare, his wife and their son. By Sarah Bahr Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal star in a heartbreaking adaptation of the ...

Given her meteoric rise from indie darling to toast of the industry, it's hard to believe Chloé Zhao has only directed five feature films so far. After first cracking into the festival circuit with her 2010 short Daughters (filmed while the now-43-year-old Bejing,