List of accolades received by Nomadland

Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film directed, written, and edited by Chloé Zhao. Based on the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a woman who leaves home to travel around the American West. The film's supporting cast includes David Strathairn, as well as real-life nomads Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells, as fictionalized versions of themselves. Nomadland had a one-week streaming limited release on December 4, 2020, and was released by Searchlight Pictures in selected IMAX theaters in the United States on January 29, 2021, and simultaneously in theaters and streaming digitally on Hulu on February 19, 2021.

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List of accolades received by Nomadland

Chloé Zhao (left) received critical acclaim for her direction and screenplay, and Frances McDormand (right) for her performance.
Awards and nominations Award Wins Nominations AACTA International Awards 1 6 Academy Awards 3 6 Alliance of Women Film Journalists 6 9 ACE Eddie Awards 0 1 American Film Institute Awards 1 1 American Society of Cinematographers 0 1 Austin Film Critics Association 3 7 Belgian Film Critics Association 0 1 Boston Society of Film Critics 4 4 British Academy Film Awards 4 7 British Independent Film Awards 1 1 Chicago Film Critics Association 5 7 Coronado Island Film Festival 1 1 Critics' Choice Movie Awards 4 6 Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association 4 4 Detroit Film Critics Society 4 4 Directors Guild of America Awards 1 1 Dorian Awards 3 5 Florida Film Critics Circle 4 6 Golden Globe Awards 2 4 Gotham Awards 2 3 Hollywood Critics Association Awards 2 6 Houston Film Critics Society 2 5 Independent Spirit Awards 4 5 London Film Critics' Circle 3 5 Los Angeles Film Critics Association 2 2 Motion Picture Sound Editors Golden Reel Awards 0 1 National Board of Review 1 1 National Society of Film Critics 4 4 New York Film Critics Circle 1 1 New York Film Critics Online 3 3 Online Film Critics Society 6 6 Producers Guild of America Awards 1 1 San Diego International Film Festival 1 1 San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards 4 7 Satellite Awards 3 8 Screen Actors Guild Awards 0 1 Seattle Film Critics Society 5 6 Toronto Film Critics Association 3 4 Toronto International Film Festival 1 1 USC Scripter Awards 1 1 Vancouver Film Critics Circle 3 3 Venice Film Festival 3 3 Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association 5 6
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Wins	109
Nominations	160
Note [a] Certain award groups do not simply award one winner. They acknowledge several different recipients, have runners-up, and have third place. Since this is a specific recognition and is different from losing an award, runner-up mentions are considered wins in this award tally. For simplification and to avoid errors, each award in this list has been presumed to have had a prior nomination.

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Nomadland garnered acclaim, becoming the third-highest rated of 2020 on Metacritic,^[1] which found it to be the most frequently ranked by critics and publications as one of the best films of 2020. It premiered on September 11, 2020, at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion, and also won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. It was named one of the ten best films of 2020 by the National Board of Review and the American Film Institute, and received four nominations at the 78th Golden Globe Awards, winning Best Motion Picture – Drama and Best Director; in winning the latter award, Zhao became the second woman and the first Asian woman to do so.^[2]