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Two Oscar-winning films shed light on the thousands of disappeared people in Latin America

MEXICO CITY — If there is a still open wound in Latin America, it is that of the tens of thousands of disappeared people and decades-long pain that has accumulated in parts of the region such as Mexico and Colombia. Two visions of the trauma had a central role at the 97th Academy Awards: the Brazilian film “Ainda Estou Aqui”, …

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Oscars 2025: Fernanda Torres becomes this year’s Carnival muse as Brazil celebrates its first Academy Award with ‘I’m Still Here’

The Hindu

The Brazilian political biographical drama I’m Still Here, made history by becoming the first-ever Brazilian nominee in any category to win an Academy Award. Starring Fernanda Torres as a mother and activist coping with the forced disappearance of her husband during the military dictatorship in Brazil, the film also became the highest-grossing Brazilian film since the COVID-19 pandemic. “And it …

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3 weeks, 1 day ago

Oscars 2025: ‘I’m Still Here’ beats ‘Emilia Pérez’, becomes first Brazilian film to win Best International Feature

The Hindu

Brazilian political drama I’m Still Here won the prestigious prize for Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. This is the first time a Brazilian film has won Best International Feature. Writers Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega adapted the story of I’m Still Here from the memoir of Marcelo Rubens Paiva, Eunice’s son. In its review of I’m …

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'I'm Still Here' makes history as first Brazilian film to win best international feature

Hindustan Times

By Isabel Teles and Luciana Magalhaes 'I'm Still Here' makes history as first Brazilian film to win best international feature SAO PAULO, - Brazilian movie "I Am 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 Brazil its first Oscar …

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3 weeks, 4 days ago

Best Picture nominee I'm Still Here reaches into a dark part of Brazil's history

ABC

Few predicted that Fernanda Torres's name would be called out as a winner at the 2025 Golden Globe awards for her work in political biopic I'm Still Here. In I'm Still Here, Torres plays Eunice Paiva, the real-life wife to progressive Brazilian politician Rubens Paiva, who was kidnapped and murdered by a corrupt government following the 1964 Brazilian military coup. …

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1 month ago

I’m Still Here review: Fernanda Torres is masterful in this poignant, Oscar-nominated drama

The Independent

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse Loughrey Get our The Life Cinematic email for free Get our The Life Cinematic email for free SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy It’s all in how Fernanda Torres carries …

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1 month, 1 week ago

'It's exactly what the country needs': How Brazil propelled drama I'm Still Here to be this year's Oscars dark horse

BBC

'It's exactly what the country needs': How Brazil propelled drama I'm Still Here to be this year's Oscars dark horse 2 days ago Caryn James Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Starring Fernanda Torres and centring on a family torn apart by Brazil's military dictatorship, I'm Still Here is up for three major awards – and could pull off an upset …

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1 month, 1 week ago

An Oscar frontrunner is based on a true story – but whose truth is it?

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Directed by Walter Salles, the veteran Brazilian filmmaker behind Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, …

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An Oscar frontrunner is based on a true story – but whose truth is it?

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Directed by Walter Salles, the veteran Brazilian filmmaker behind Central Station and The Motorcycle Diaries, …

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1 month, 1 week ago

BAFTA Film Awards 2025 full list of winners: Conclave clinches Best Film award, Anora and The Brutalist win big

Hindustan Times

Adrien Brody and Mikey Madison were among the big winners at the Bafta Film Awards as they triumphed in the acting categories. BAFTA Awards ceremony: Brady Corbet poses with the award for Best director for The Brutalist and Edward Berger. This year’s ceremony saw The Brutalist and papal drama Conclave tie with four wins each, including wins for outstanding British …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Here’s what you didn’t see in some of the best picture Oscar contenders

LA Times

Directors, and their editors, must be brutal in their final cuts. “In that pursuit, great scenes that are not essential must be left behind.” What snippets of this year’s Academy Award best picture contenders never made it to the final cut? ‘Anora’ Sean Baker, director Setup: Nearly a half-hour of Ani wandering around the strip club, essentially unscripted to get …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Best Actress Oscar-nominee Fernanda Torres apologises for wearing Blackface in resurfaced sketch

The Independent

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Fernanda Torres has apologised for wearing Blackface in a decades-old comedy …

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2 months ago

Oscars 2025: Will ‘Emilia Perez’ reign supreme or could ‘The Brutalist’ upset its record-breaking run?

The Hindu

The annual ritual of the Oscar nominations announcement has finally passed. Emilia Pérez, Netflix’s divisive bid for Best Picture glory, leads the pack with 13 nods, while The Brutalist, Brady Corbet’s post-modern epic, stands as its only potential counterweight. #TheBrutalist has received 10 Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture, Best Director for Brady Corbet, Best Actor for @adrienbrody, Best Supporting …

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2 months ago

Oscar best picture race is a free-for-all

LA Times

Bob Dylan wasn’t being literal when he sang “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” but, looking at the weekend weather forecast, and with the Dylan-goes-electric biopic “A Complete Unknown” making hay with eight Oscar nominations, the song was on my mind. Walter Salles’ excellent “I’m Still Here,” starring Fernanda Torres as a defiant woman holding her family together after a repressive …

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2 months ago

Brazilians jubilant at 'I'm Still Here' historic Oscar nomination for best picture

Hindustan Times

SAO PAULO, - As the long-awaited Oscar nominations were released on Thursday, Brazilians flooded social media cheering and celebrating every mention of "I'm Still Here" - a total of three. Brazilians jubilant at 'I'm Still Here' historic Oscar nomination for best picture Directed by Brazilian Walter Salles, and co-produced with France, the film picked up nominations for best picture, best …

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2 months, 1 week ago

Review: Fernanda Torres pulls off a miracle of maternal courage in ‘I’m Still Here’

LA Times

Soufflé is almost ready at the Paiva household just across the street from the beach in sultry Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That Walter Salles, the acclaimed director of “Central Station” and “The Motorcycle Diaries,” first depicts the tight-knit family of “I’m Still Here” at their most ebullient, before tragedy strikes, pays off dramatic dividends in this remarkably life-affirming drama largely …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

Así lucen las posibilidades latinas en las nominaciones al Oscar

LA Times

Probablemente, la mayor sorpresa de la edición de los Globos de Oro que se llevó a cabo el pasado fin de semana fue el triunfo de Fernanda Torres en la categoría de Mejor Interpretación Femenina en una Película- Drama por su trabajo en “I’m Still Here”. Incluso si no se da, es probable que haya de todos modos presencia latina …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

In ‘I’m Still Here,’ a family portrait is a form of political resistance

Hindustan Times

NEW YORK — In movies, political resistance often takes the form of protest, hunger strike or armed uprising. In ‘I’m Still Here,’ a family portrait is a form of political resistance The film stars Fernanda Torres as Eunice Paiva, the wife of Rubens Paiva, a former leftist Brazilian congressman who, at the height of the country’s military dictatorship in 1971, …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

In ‘I’m Still Here,’ a family portrait is a form of political resistance

Associated Press

NEW YORK — In movies, political resistance often takes the form of protest, hunger strike or armed uprising. “When we started to develop the project seven years ago, it was truly about trying to bring light to a past that wasn’t sufficiently focused by Brazilian cinema,” says Salles. “Then, little by little, the political situation shifted to the point that …

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2 months, 2 weeks ago

‘I’m Still Here’ star Fernanda Torres pulls off Golden Globes’ biggest upset

LA Times

In the only real upset of the night, Fernanda Torres won for lead actress in a motion picture drama for her role in “I’m Still Here.” The Brazilian actress beat out higher-profile stars Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Tilda Swinton and Pamela Anderson. So many actresses here that I admire so much.” Awards Golden Globes 2025: Winners list The …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

La única película latinoamericana nominada a los Globos de Oro coloca a una mujer ante la dictadura brasileña

LA Times

Salles ha dicho ya que uno de los elementos esenciales del cine es la capacidad que este tiene de ser un instrumento contra el olvido. “La idea inicial era hacer una película que ofreciera una reflexión sobre nuestro pasado que nos permitiera entender mejor de dónde veníamos, y de repente, la realidad que nos rodeaba cambió, con lo que nos …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

INTERVIEW | ‘Collective cinema viewing is back in Brazil’: Filmmaker Walter Salles

New Indian Express

Excerpts: Why didn’t anything happen for the people that were killed at that time? It’s because as opposed to what happened in Argentina and Chile, the crimes committed by the dictatorship in Brazil in the 70s were not punished. A film that I love, Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985 is a story that could not be told in Brazil. It’s the …

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3 months, 1 week ago

For Walter Salles’ ‘I’m Still Here,’ star Fernanda Torres learns to mask the pain

LA Times

When director Walter Salles asked Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres to read the script for “I’m Still Here,” she assumed her old friend just wanted a second opinion. Back in 1999, Torres’ mother, the legendary star Fernanda Montenegro, had scored an Oscar nomination for Salles’ acclaimed “Central Station,” and although Torres had previously appeared in the director’s 1995 film, “Foreign Land,” …

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3 months, 1 week ago

IFFK 2024: Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here speaks to the current times

The Hindu

A good part of the initial half of Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here is filled with joyful scenes, of a family having fun at the beach, enjoying get-togethers with friends at home and dancing to their favourite records. The opening film of the 29th International Film Festival of Kerala is Brazil’s submission for the Best International Feature Film category at …

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Two Oscar-winning films shed light on the thousands of disappeared people in Latin America

Oscars 2025: Fernanda Torres becomes this year’s Carnival muse as Brazil celebrates its first Academy Award with ‘I’m Still Here’

Oscars 2025: ‘I’m Still Here’ beats ‘Emilia Pérez’, becomes first Brazilian film to win Best International Feature

'I'm Still Here' makes history as first Brazilian film to win best international feature

Best Picture nominee I'm Still Here reaches into a dark part of Brazil's history

I’m Still Here review: Fernanda Torres is masterful in this poignant, Oscar-nominated drama

'It's exactly what the country needs': How Brazil propelled drama I'm Still Here to be this year's Oscars dark horse

An Oscar frontrunner is based on a true story – but whose truth is it?

An Oscar frontrunner is based on a true story – but whose truth is it?

BAFTA Film Awards 2025 full list of winners: Conclave clinches Best Film award, Anora and The Brutalist win big

Here’s what you didn’t see in some of the best picture Oscar contenders

Best Actress Oscar-nominee Fernanda Torres apologises for wearing Blackface in resurfaced sketch

Oscars 2025: Will ‘Emilia Perez’ reign supreme or could ‘The Brutalist’ upset its record-breaking run?

Oscar best picture race is a free-for-all

Brazilians jubilant at 'I'm Still Here' historic Oscar nomination for best picture

Review: Fernanda Torres pulls off a miracle of maternal courage in ‘I’m Still Here’

Así lucen las posibilidades latinas en las nominaciones al Oscar

In ‘I’m Still Here,’ a family portrait is a form of political resistance

In ‘I’m Still Here,’ a family portrait is a form of political resistance

‘I’m Still Here’ star Fernanda Torres pulls off Golden Globes’ biggest upset

La única película latinoamericana nominada a los Globos de Oro coloca a una mujer ante la dictadura brasileña

INTERVIEW | ‘Collective cinema viewing is back in Brazil’: Filmmaker Walter Salles

For Walter Salles’ ‘I’m Still Here,’ star Fernanda Torres learns to mask the pain

IFFK 2024: Walter Salles’s I’m Still Here speaks to the current times