Kate Aurthur editorChloé Zhao has won the Golden Globe for best director for “Nomadland,” making her the second woman ever to win for directing, and the first woman of color to win in the category.When the Globe nominations were announced in early February, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which has been heavily criticized in the past for its lack of inclusiveness, nominated a record-setting three women in the category: Zhao, Emerald Fennell (“Promising Young Woman”) and Regina King (“One Night in Miami”) were up against David Fincher (“Mank”) and Aaron Sorkin (“The Trial of the Chicago 7”).In Zhao’s “Nomadland,” Frances McDormand stars as Fern, a fractious widow barely getting by who drives a van around the United States, taking.
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