Oscars history.The 39-year-old filmmaker is the first Asian-American woman to win the Academy Award for Best Director, taking home a golden statuette for “Nomadland” Sunday.“My entire ‘Nomadland’ company what a crazy once-in-a-lifetime we’ve been on together.
I’m so grateful to you,” she said from LA’s Union Station.“I’ve been thinking a lot lately of how I keep going where things get hard and I think it goes back to something I learned when I was a kid when I was growing up in China with dad and I would play this game,” she said and began to recite a poem she learned as a child in Chinese.“‘People at birth are inherently good,'” she said.
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