Chloé Zhao Vivien Killilea/Getty Images "I can never quite pinpoint why I choose stories," muses Chloé Zhao. "I think they choose me." It's late August and the Chinese director - renowned for her Oscar-winning Nomadland (2020) with Frances McDormand - is talking to The Hollywood Reporter over Zoom about re-entering the film world with an adaptation of Maggie O'Farrell's novel Hamnet. On Sept.