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Native American | Woman Director
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Best Director | 2015 | Chloé
Best Cinematography Debut | 2015 | Joshua James
International First Film | 2015 | Chloé
Achievement in Screenwriting | 2015 | Chloé
Dramatic | 2015 | Chloé
Best First Feature | 2016 | Nina Yang
Best Cinematography | 2016 | Joshua James
2016 | Chloé
American Independents | 2015 | Chloé
Best Feature Film | 2015 | Chloé
2015 | Chloé
2015 | Chloé
Best Directorial Debut | 2015 | Chloé
Best Picture | 2015 | Chloé
2015 | Chloé
On a DVD extra, director Chloé Zhao said of the tight budget, light plotting, and neo-realist style casting, "We're capturing truth - because truth is the only thing we can afford." The production used mostly local residents as actors, and, according to Zhao, 80% of the story depicted is true to the actual life of the young man playing Johnny Winters (John Reddy). The house that Winters lives in is the house that Reddy lived in, and Reddy, also one of 25 children to one father, has many of his real family members playing members of his family. In fact, the man shown delivering the eulogy for Winters' father is Reddy's actual father.
Chloé Zhao's directorial film debut (feature length).
"Johnny Winters: Thing about breaking a horse is, don't run 'em all the time. 'Cause if you're gonna just keep running a horse, you're gonna break its spirit. Anything that runs wild got something bad in 'em. You want to leave some of that in there. 'Cause they need it to survive out here."
"Johnny Winters: Where we live, the Plains, the Badlands, things usually look the same. People are always related. They got the same old worries all the time. It gets really hot sometimes. You get tired of it, but there's things you always gotta do. It's always a hard place to leave. 'Cause that's all you got growing up. My sister, Jashaun, she's got a thing about this place. She sees things I don't. She's a good one. Whenever the storms are comin', the old timers would teach us to watch the cloud. And when the wind is too strong, we all know to lean into it so it don't blow us away."
