The International Federation of Film Critics has voted Chloé Zhao's Oscar winner the best film of 2021. The FIPRESCI Grand Prix will be handed out at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Zhao is the first Chinese director to win the prize and only the second Asian filmmaker so honored, following Korean director Kim Ki-duk, who won forIt is somewhat unusual for a North American to take the international critics’ top honor, which pick
their favorites from titles that screen at the top arthouse festivals worldwide. Only three American directors have ever won: Terrence Malick forin 2014, and Paul Thomas Anderson, who is FIPRESCI’s most celebrated director, with three Grand Prix wins, for
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