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Chloé Zhao (born Zhao Ting, in Chinese: 赵婷; 31 March 1982) is a Chinese-born filmmaker. She is known primarily for her work on independent films. For her film Nomadland (2020), Zhao is the second of three women to win the Academy Award for Best Director. Songs My Brothers Taught Me (2015), her debut feature film, premiered at Sundance Film Festival to critical acclaim and earned a nomination for the Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature. The Rider (2017) was critically acclaimed and received nominations for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Film and Best Director. Zhao garnered international recognition with the American film Nomadland (2020), which she wrote, produced, edited and directed, and which won numerous accolades, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Earning four Academy Award nominations for the film, Zhao won Best Picture and Best Director, becoming the first woman of color to win the latter. She also won awards for directing at the Directors Guild of America Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and British Academy Film Awards, becoming the second female winner of each of them. Zhao co-wrote and directed the Marvel Cinematic Universe superhero film Eternals (2021). Her latest film, Hamnet, premiered at the 52nd Telluride Film Festival to critical acclaim. Description above from the Wikipedia article Chloé Zhao, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Momakase is a 2026 American superhero film based on the recurring supervillain from Big Hero 6: The Series, produced by Walt Disney Studios, Legendary Pictures, Marvel Studios, and The Stone Quarry, and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures. It is the first installment in Legendary's Big Hero 6 Universe and the first film of Part One: Redemption and Atonement. Directed by Marc Webb and written by the directors of Big Hero 6, Don Hall and Chris Williams, the film stars Rina Sawayama as Akari Hayami, an ambitious and egotistical renowned Japanese master chef and professional thief with the alias "Momakase", who reluctantly returns to the slums of American-Japanese city San Fransokyo to confront her past after she becomes uneasy upon believing that her American father is still alive. Sawayama is supported by Jimmy Wong, Mei Nagano, Cillian Murphy, Keegan-Michael Key, Harry Lennix, and David Harbour. Momakase premiered in San Francisco on January 10th, 2026, and was released on February 5th; it grossed over $727 million worldwide at the global box-office, breaking-even of its $170 million budget. The film received praise for its direction, visuals, story, action sequences, Hans Zimmer's musical score, the performances of Sawayama and Harbour, and emotional weight. A sequel is in development.
