"Nomadland" scored four nominations — best motion picture-drama, best director, best screenplay and best actress in a motion picture-drama for the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards.

LOS ANGELES, March 1 (Xinhua) — Chinese woman director Chloe Zhao's feature film "Nomadland" won Best Motion Picture-Drama at the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night, becoming the first film directed by a woman to win the trophy in the category in history.

The critically-acclaimed road-trip drama, starring two-time Oscar winner Frances McDormand, beat out "The Father," "Mank," "Promising Young Woman" and "The Trial of the Chicago 7" for the top prize in the motion picture drama category.

The top prize is the second nabbed by the Chinese filmmaker in the ceremony after she took home the Golden Globe for best director in a motion picture. She is the first Chinese woman and woman of Asian descent to win the award in the directing category in Golden Globes history.

"Nomadland" scored four nominations — best motion picture-drama, best director, best screenplay and best actress in a motion picture-drama for the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards earlier February.

Based on Jessica Bruder's 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the 21st Century, the film stars McDormand as an out-of-work woman who packs her van and sets off from her small town to travel around the vast landscape of the American West, exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad.

The Searchlight Pictures' film has swept awards from coast to coast in the United States in recent months, becoming one of the favorites in the Hollywood awards season and a front-runner in multiple categories in the Oscar race.

Run by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, the 78th Annual Golden Globe Awards honored the best in American television of 2020, as well as film in 2020 and early 2021.

As the first major show of this Hollywood awards season, the virtual ceremony, which was postponed for nearly two months amid the COVID-19 pandemic, took place live from both New York City and Los Angeles.

(Source: Xinhua)