It also won the People's Choice Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. Nomadland premiered on September 11, 2020, at the Venice Film Festival, where it won the Golden Lion.
A number of real-life nomads appear as fictionalized versions of themselves, including Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells. David Strathairn also stars in a supporting role. Based on the 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a widow who leaves to travel around the United States in her van as a nomad. Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Chloé Zhao.
