Nomadland is a 2020 American drama film directed, written, and edited by Chloé Zhao. Based on the 2017 non-fiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century by Jessica Bruder, it stars Frances McDormand as a woman who leaves home to travel around the American West. The film's supporting cast includes David Strathairn, as well as real-life nomads Linda May, Swankie, and Bob Wells, as fictionalized versions of themselves. Nomadland had a one-week streaming limited release on December 4, 2020, and was released by Searchlight Pictures in selected IMAX theaters in the United States on January 29, 2021, and simultaneously in theaters and streaming digitally on Hulu on February 19, 2021.