Director Chloé Zhao was visibly shocked by the win, as she took the stage to accept the award alongside stars Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley, and producer Stephen Spielberg. Spielberg took the mic first, but quickly turned the attention to his director.
“I felt there was only one filmmaker who could tell this story,” Spielberg said, turning to Zhao.
Zhao took a turn at the mic, first acknowledging that some of the film’s crew, “lost their loved ones while making this film,” and let them know she was thinking of them. She then shared something that her star, Paul Mescal, told her earlier in the day.
“Paul said that he realized that making Hamnet made him realize the most important part of being an artist is learning to be vulnerable enough to allow ourself to be seen for who are, not who we ought to be,” Zhao said. “To give ourselves fully to the world—even the parts of ourselves that we’re ashamed of, that we’re afraid of, that are imperfect. So that the people that we speak to, they can also learn to fully accept themselves.”
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