Nomadland (2020)

Nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role, Best Directing, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Film Editing, and Best Cinematography    This is definitely the frontrunner for Best Picture, Director, and Lead Actress.  And probably Adapted Screenplay.  It's a good film but not one I'd ever watch again.

Fern (Frances McDormand) is intentionally homeless.  She lives out of her panel van, moving from RV park to park across the country, following seasonal work since the death of her husband and the closure of their company-owned town.  Along the way, she makes friends among the other nomads, a loose community of people who, for various reasons, have rejected the homogenization of society.  

Content warning: suicide (discussed, not shown).  Overall, this is a story about grief and trauma response.  It also shows the difference between solitude and loneliness.  It is a very pretty film, with a lot of broad, sweeping vistas of the American West, reinforcing the concepts of pioneering and wilderness.  McDormand is one of those actresses that people will be talking about in 100 years as the best of a generation, whether or not anybody recognizes it now.  She doesn't have the film credit volume of  Meryl Streep (yet) but she's one Oscar away from being tied in statuettes.  This could be it.  

Nomadland is currently streaming on Hulu.