If Chloé Zhao manages to nab this year's directing Oscar for Nomadland, she won't be the first to win for a drama about down-on-their-luck itinerant workers making their way across the American West.
John Ford was awarded the statuette in 1941 for his adaptation of the John Steinbeck novel The Grapes of Wrath, which sees the Joad family abandon the Oklahoma farm they lost to the Great Depression and Dust Bowl and head to California — a fabled promised land — in a broken-down 1926 Hudson Super Six sedan.
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