Chloé Zhao

Nomadland brought Chloe Zhao three Spirits in 2021, for directing, for editing, and for the best film category she shared with a list of five producers; three years earlier The Rider had been among the nominees in that same directing category. She directed four of her five films, and those four spread across 2015 to 2025: Songs My Brothers Taught Me, The Rider, Nomadland and Hamnet from 2025. Nomadland leads on votes with 3,362, and Hamnet sits at 1,380. The fifth work is a 2022 production about Werner Herzog in which she is not the director. Each of the four directing jobs has her as sole director. Five works, then, across a decade.