Brazilian movie "I'm Still Here", set against the backdrop of the military dictatorship and recounting the true story of a mother of five whose husband disappears, made history on Sunday by earning ...

Since its release, it has remained one of the highest-grossing Brazilian films in domestic box office history, settling at ...

Torres didn’t take home the Oscar for best actress, though I’m Still Here significantly won the best international feature film category. On the carpet before the ceremony, she dazzled in an ...

I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, gave Brazil’s first Oscars win on Sunday in the best international film ...

To the enduring frustration of more or less an entire country, that year’s prize didn’t go to actor Fernanda Montenegro for her feisty, riveting performance as a jaded letter writer in Walter Salles’s ...

Sweet Justice? To understand why Torres’ Oscar chances have ignited excitement in Brazil, one must first look to her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, 95, who appears as an aging Eunice Paiva in the ...

Fernanda Torres (Best Actress nominee for I’M STILL HERE) attends the 97th Oscars Nominees Dinner at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. What’s more, Torres and Montenegro - an actor who ...

But Torres also had another example close by. Her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, is a legendary figure in Brazilian theater and film, the first and, before her daughter, only Brazilian to receive an ...

With her best actress nod, Torres became the second Brazilian actress to be nominated for the award -- the first being her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated for her role in the 1998 ...

This golden apple didn’t fall too far from the tree at the 2025 Oscars. And the weight of the film’s three nominations, including Best Picture, Best Actress and Best International Feature Film ...

"I'm Still Here" has won the Oscar for best international feature, the first Brazilian movie to win the category.

The first was her own mother — 95-year-old Fernanda Montenegro, perhaps the only actor more legendary than her daughter in the South American country. Montenegro was nominated for 1998’s ...