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Furthermore, directors like Greta Gerwig ( Little Women ), Jane Campion ( The Power of the Dog ), and Chloé Zhao ( Nomadland ) have consistently framed older women not as sidebars but as emotional anchors. Nomadland ’s Frances McDormand (then 63) won an Oscar for portraying a woman embracing rootlessness—a role that would have gone to a man a generation ago. : Recent awards seasons have seen women over