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Nomadland

Drama

Directed by Chloé Zhao

A woman in her sixties embarks on a journey through the western United States after losing everything in the Great Recession, living as a van-dwelling modern-day nomad. From TMDB

203 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 3, 2026 · How this works

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Nomadland is a 2021 drama film, directed by Chloé Zhao, starring Frances McDormand, David Strathairn and Linda May.

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  • David Cole @dsc-pnw.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 22, 2025

    Tonight’s movie: NOMADLAND. Gotta say, the idea of dropping out of society and living in a van or small RV doesn’t sound like the worst idea right now.

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  • Anime News Network @animenewsnetwork.comBluesky · Nov 4, 2025

    Kodansha establishes a studio in Hollywood with award-winning Nomadland and Hamnet director Chloe Zhao, with an eye toward adapting manga and novels into live-action!

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  • Cinema Bear @xcinemabearx.bsky.socialBluesky · May 26, 2026

    The new horror movie “Passenger” was fine. It’s Nomadland meets the conjuring. Writing was awful but there’s some really fun camera work that creates a ton of tension! 📽️🐻

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  • Gavin @shhhitsgavin.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 13, 2026

    That can't be true, Oscar winning film Nomadland told me that Amazon is a great place to work...

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  • MindyGraz @melkleingraz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2026

    Her 4 Academy Award were for: 1) Best Actress 1997 "Fargo" 2) Best Actress 2020 "Nomadland" 3) Nomadland 2020 Best Film (as producer) 4) 2025 Best Actress "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 @[email protected]Lemmy · Mar 29, 2025

    There's a lot of reasons there: * Oscar winning directors get too much of a free hand on budget and runtime - Mikey 17 was really good but with that budget it was doomed to, at best, break even. * They get offered big projects they may be unsuited for - there was nothing about Nomadland that said Chloé Zhao was ready to direct a blockbuster Marvel movie and it just felt like a cynical exercise to get a bit of indie cred. I doubt she had much creative freedom on The Eternals and would be…

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  • Richard Whittaker @rmwhittaker.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 14, 2025

    Oh, god, Nomadland. No question. I hate that film with a passion.

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  • Owl Who Stopped Living And Became Mixed-Up Zombie Berg @owlberg.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 18, 2026

    Name your fav film by a woman director Nomadland (2020) directed by Chloé Zhao m.youtube.com/watch?v=6sxC...

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  • Gerry Moynihan @gerrymoynihan.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 25, 2025

    I recently watched 'Nomadland' with the incomparable Frances McDormand...a very compelling film...it draws you in...it's been said that if the USA sneezes we all catch a cold...wrap up warm...enjoy its often understated human warmth... #Nomadland #FrancesMcDormand #amwriting #WritersLife #Film

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  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 27, 2025

    'Consider Phlebas' series set at Amazon from Charles Yu & Chloé Zhao. > Amazon MGM Studios is developing science fiction TV series Consider Phlebas. It is an adaptation of the novel by Iain M Banks, the first in the late Scottish author’s classic 10-book Culture book series about an interstellar post-scarcity society. > > Interior Chinatown creator Charles Yu is writing and executive producing. The potential series also is executive produced by Nomadland Oscar winner Chloé Zhao through her…

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  • Scary FrankenLarry @frankenlawrence.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    JW: Passenger (2026) - What if NOMADLAND was a Blumhouse-style jump-scare horror movie?

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  • zm @goodintentions75.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2025

    DEN-zul Washington is really great in Gladiator II. The movie is pretty good, too, if a little CG-washed at times. Pick It Up! is a fun music doc. Check it out. Unforgiven and Nomadland are both fantastic movies. #letterboxdfriday #lastfourwatched

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  • Dr. Donna Bowman @donnadb.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2024

    After discussing NOMADLAND (2001) with my students, one of them said “this reminds me of a movie my film prof showed us, have you seen TOKYO STORY” in case you need to know the kids are alright

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  • Tariq, the Movie Critic @tarialle25.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2026

    Congrats to Chloe Zhao for being the second female director to receive an Oscar Director for Nomadland and her second Oscar nomination for Hamnet. It’s sad to hear that her other film Eternals has mixed reviews from critics. #womenshistorymonth 11 #Filmsky #Moviesky 🎥

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  • Dan Marshall @danmarstp.marshallwords.comBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Watched Nomadland with unending cracks and booms of fireworks in all around our house. It was a great movie. This is a dumb ass holiday.

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  • HurlingDurling @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 7, 2023

    Millennial here. My plan is to use my notes from the movie Nomadland and plan my life to life like that until I die on the side of the road.

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  • Shanana ℝ𝔸𝕀ℕ Golden-Bear @quartzsiterain.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 6, 2025

    Swankie Wheels of NOMADLAND movie waves to passersby at Quartzsite, AZ HANDS OFF today! #handsoff #handsoffAZ @maddow.msnbc.com

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  • CKJohnsonBK 🇺🇦🇬🇱 @ckjohnsonbk.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 22, 2026

    See also that undeservedly praised film Nomadland. So cool that all these people live itinerant lives, traveling the wide prairies to get temp jobs but never health insurance. Who wouldn’t want that kind of adventure?

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  • JohnnyNaugahyde @jbvta.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 24, 2025

    I can dislike a movie regardless of awards see: Everything Everywhere blah blah blah Nomadland

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  • B0NK3RS @[email protected]Lemmy · Jan 4, 2026

    **Nomadland** comes to mind. Something about the whole movie makes it so facinating.

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  • Darren 🎶💙🎸 @darrenfbr.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 20, 2024

    #LetsGetAcquainted #MusicChallenge Day 20: A song that got me through 2021. From the 2021 Film Nomadland Drifting Away I Go - Cat Clifford m.youtube.com/watch?v=XOD_...

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  • Brendan Foley @thetruebrendanf.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 4, 2026

    She spent the entirety of the NOMADLAND press tour having to justify/apologize for making a Marvel movie to an industry that would not stop demanding to know why she was wasting her time/wouldn't admit that she'd been pushed around by the Marvel machine.

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  • More Movies @moremovies.co.ukBluesky · Mar 15, 2026

    #Oscars 🧵 5/11 Hamnet (2025) dir. Chloé Zhao 🎬 Also nominated are Director Zhao who previously won for Nomadland (2020) and Jessie Buckley in the Lead Actress category for her amazing portrayal as Agnes. We cover this movie in more detail in our #podcast episode ☝️ #filmsky #cinema

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  • The Water Is Wide @thewateriswide.netBluesky · Dec 8, 2024

    The Wall Drug 80ft Dinosaur, just off the Interstate-90, Wall, South Dakota - 8miles north of Badlands National Park. As featured in the film Nomadland. 🦕 🎥 🛣️ #RoadsideAmerica

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  • HobbitFoot @[email protected]Lemmy · Oct 26, 2023

    That's what the movie Nomadland is about. Compared to a motorhome, you are trading away a lot of comforts for a cheap place you can drive around in. If you read on people who live the lifestyle, there are usually two groups. One is people who use their van as a form of long term camping. The other who use the van because they can't afford anything better.

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  • Werewolf By Nat 🇵🇷🏳‍⚧ @peanutbutterwhisky.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 17, 2026

    I don't know what's dumber: Comparing One Battle After Another to Green Book or thinking Anora, Nomadland, and Argo are also comparable. People have this idea because a movie isn't talked about on social media 24/7 it isn't well-liked. I'd be damned if anyone tries to tell me Argo is a bad film.

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  • Just call me Charles @munkeenamedchase.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 5, 2025

    #LetterboxdFriday #LastFourWatched Decent week if you ignore European Vacation a movie that's way up there on the worst comedy sequels list Snowy River is solid Phantom still rules Straight Story is so good and is getting a double with Nomadland as soon as I get my own theater.

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  • David Cole @dsc-pnw.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2025

    Frances McDormand Week continues. Tonight’s movie: NOMADLAND, The One Where She Shits In a Bucket. This movie sort of blurs the line between a fictional movie and a documentary, and has really grown on me.

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  • Gregory Ellwood @gregoryellwood.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 3, 2026

    17 straight Telluride Film Festivals and yes the COVID Nomadland in our cars counts

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  • Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 30, 2026

    3. Hollywood is generally at a creative low point for a few intersecting reasons. But it absolutely avoiding storytelling that could be construed as rocking the boat of aspiration and capitalism. Whatever you think of the movie itself, "Nomadland" is a notable outlier in terms of its POV framing

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  • LustyTireFire (Erotic Thriller) @lustytirefire.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    I really loved Nomadland immediately after watching it and ever since then I have forgotten literally every element of that movie. So, yeah.

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  • James FBSI 🐸🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇺 (Fanatic) @toplandscaper.eurosky.socialBluesky · Jul 11, 2025

    This film, Nomadland, starring the talented Frances McDormand, was an eye-opener for me. I had no idea that this was so prevalent in the USA. In the film she plays a woman who lives a nomadic lifestyle. This is also happening in the UK. Full story here. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomadland

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  • ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝 @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 27, 2025

    'Consider Phlebas' series set at Amazon from Charles Yu & Chloé Zhao. cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/24829890 > > Amazon MGM Studios is developing science fiction TV series Consider Phlebas. It is an adaptation of the novel by Iain M Banks, the first in the late Scottish author’s classic 10-book Culture book series about an interstellar post-scarcity society. > > > > Interior Chinatown creator Charles Yu is writing and executive producing. The potential series also is executive…

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  • flux @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 3, 2025

    TIL the director of "the Eternals" is the same as "Nomadland"?

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  • Chef Kennedy🐸🏳️‍🌈 @kennedy.northsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2025

    I'm not even saying Nomadland was *bad* but just that people talked about it like it was a movie we'd all be talking about and rewatching and thinking about for years and literally I forgot it even was a thing until just now when I was looking up oscar-winning movies

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  • leah toth @thescrvnr.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 25, 2023

    Watching Nomadland. Frances McDormand is the coolest. I swear I could watch a Warhol-style film of her smoking cigarettes for hours.

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  • David Veloz @3daydog.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2026

    I hated Nomadland. Easily the ugliest, poorest shot film I’d seen in ages. Hamnet is also flat, dull, and dark. I don’t understand Zhao’s aesthetic at all. She even confessed she understood only a fraction of the Shakespeare in the film. But Jesse Buckley is so good none of that matters.

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  • Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.deBluesky · Jan 23, 2026

    I was traveling on the ICE train today (Germany‘s inter-city rail system, unrelated to US domestic shock troops) and they offer movie selections for streaming, so I ended up re-watching parts of Nomadland on my phone. Even on the tiny screen, the cinematography really pops.

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  • HIOM @hiom.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 3, 2025

    In terms of how I feel about each movie winning, I go... -levitating- 1. Parasite 2. Oppenheimer 3. Anora -gets a fist hearty pump- 4. Nomadland 5. Moonlight 6. The Shape of Water 7. Spotlight -Yeah, sure- 8. EEAAO -ugh- 9. CODA 10. Green Book

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  • MattSkywalkingFox 🎃🎃👻👻 @jaimevilchez18.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 20, 2026

    What is Your Favorite Movie released the year that you turned 18 years old. Mine is Nomadland, I thought that it was such an important and brilliant movie that's about American workers struggling after The Great Recession and how they can form a special connection with other through humanity.

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  • David Jett @davidjett.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 12, 2026

    I guarantee that I'm the only person on the planet in history to watch Nomadland back to back with Clifford. #Letterboxd #filmsky boxd.it/fcPlzB

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  • Daniel Joyaux @thirdmanmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 16, 2026

    The last ten Best Picture winners, ranked by tier: All-Timers: 1. One Battle After Another 2. Parasite 3. Anora 4. Moonlight Great: 5. The Shape of Water 6. Oppenheimer 7. Everything Everywhere All at Once Good: 8. CODA 9. Nomadland Decent Movie but Embarrassing Winner: 10. Green Book

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  • Wandering Hoo @wanderlib.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 18, 2026

    Wasn't a proper movie theater, but it's either Nomadland or Hillbilly Elegy.

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  • Matt @bosty.caBluesky · Oct 3, 2025

    One Battle After Another hits like a truck. It's been so long since I've seen a movie that masterful. But Dave is right, what an absolute gongshow of movies this decade. Everything Everywhere All at Once Coda Nomadland Cival War Sing Sing Great films! But only 6ish movies in 5 years? It's sad.

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  • Magma Suit @magmasuit.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 7, 2025

    Nomadland and Eternals remain the greatest examples of “Oh, that was a movie?” in the annals of Oscar winners and Marvel movies respectively, which is impressive for a single director in the span of a year

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  • NastyClaudia @nastyclaudia.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 9, 2025

    Jeff Bezos made billions treating Amazon like a cotton plantation and his workers like slaves. Bezos is so corrupt there's a movie about it: NOMADLAND. Amazon workers who lost their homes as a result of medical catastrophe/bankruptcy live in their vans in Amazon parking lots

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  • saxtonpope.bsky.social @saxtonpope.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2025

    My hot take: Miami Vice over Collateral. Also, we pretty clearly need more women in film, yeah? The Hurt Locker Past Lives Nomadland White Material Away From Her Marie Antoinette Aftersun We Need to Talk About Kevin Meek's Cutoff Portrait of a Lady on Fire

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  • TinyBreak @[email protected]Lemmy · Apr 28, 2025

    I am not sure how I felt about it in the end. I'm glad I watched it but... yeah. Similar story with Nomadland. Keep thinking about that one too.

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  • The List of Lists Podcast @thelistoflists.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 22, 2025

    This week we had Black Bag, Novocaine, Severance, and Adolescence on our list before counting up Best Picture winners Nomadland and Coda. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... #filmsky #moviesky

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  • David Cole @dsc-pnw.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 6, 2025

    Tonight’s movie: NOMADLAND. Because we’ll all probably be living in vans on BLM land pretty soon.

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  • Alex @corgimom5.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 24, 2024

    See Nomadland by Jessica Bruder. (It's also a movie.)

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  • beckydubs 🇳🇿 @beckydubs.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 4, 2024

    Movie recs? I’m just off seven years of full time work + study and I’ve missed soooo much tv and movies. What do I like? Just watched Nomadland. Loved. Just watched Poor Things. Loved. Love the recent Dune movies. Managed to watch Andor. Best Star Wars, hands down.

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  • SeaTea @tierno158.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 9, 2024

    I was watching the movie Nomadland and they had the main character shit in a bucket and it made me mad about economic Injustice and the fact that some people get buckets.

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  • MimicJar @[email protected]Lemmy · Feb 22, 2024

    I mean there are A LOT of excellent directors out there. The issue is giving them the freedom to direct. Look at The Eternals. Chloé Zhao coming fresh off of Nomadland is an odd choice for a Marvel film director. I don't think Marvel made a mistake giving Chloé a chance, I think that's how we can get some really great films. However what we got in the end didn't feel that special. Kit Harringtons character didn't have much to do. All the other characters didn't get much screen time as it…

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  • alamkara @alamkara.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 18, 2026

    it seems to stem from an anxiety about one's personal moral score - condemnation of "bad" people/characters adds to your good-person credit. like I recently watched Nomadland and was surprised to find no exploitatory or glorifying gaze for poverty in the film as I'd read there would be

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  • Mister Orange @misterorange21.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 14, 2026

    📽️ EVERY NIGHT IS MOVIE NIGHT 🍿 (256/365) #NowShowing NOMADLAND (2020) 🧡🤘 #FilmSky

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  • The ɅɅeech @diedfrombeing.labeledrude.onlineBluesky · Aug 21, 2026

    watching this new Passenger movie and its very bad but its making me think that recutting Nomadland as a horror film has a lot of potential

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  • MindyGraz @melkleingraz.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 23, 2026

    1) Best Actress 1997 "Fargo" 2) Best Actress 2020 "Nomadland" 3) Nomadland 2020 Best Film (as producer) 4) 2025 Best Actress "Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

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  • John Keeps on Bloodsuckin’ 🚛🧛‍♂️ @johndrew-sky.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 11, 2026

    I think Zhao’s most successful cast was the (for lack of a better term) non-professional cast playing versions of themselves in THE RIDER. I still look on that film as some sort of little miracle, which accomplishes so much more emotionally than either NOMADLAND or HAMNET.

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  • Louise Lucas is my Christ @itsmemario.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 5, 2026

    I was reading the wiki page about nomads in the Cyberpunk universe. Basically people who lost everything in the financial crisis banded together in massive car caravans. I thought this was a bit over the top. A day later I heard about the film Nomadland which is basically about this and I freaked.

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