Brazil’s Carnival muse this year isn’t one of the divas or drum queens parading with the Rio de Janeiro samba schools.

Ever since Walter Salles' Brazilian political drama I'm Still Here debuted to acclaim at last September's Venice Film ...

Brazil has won its first Oscar for international feature for I'm Still Here, the story of a family broken apart amid a ...

Fernanda Torres has the chance to make history at the Oscars. The "I'm Still Here" star would become the first Brazil ian ...

Her film ‘I’m Still Here’ has fueled a legal reckoning that experts say will get taken to the next level if she brings home ...

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

By Steven Zeitchik Senior Editor, Awards “The movie is already very unique in how it’s helped people understand the dangers of the threats to democracy in Brazil in a very personal way ...

FERNANDA TORRES: You know, it lasted so long and it ended with an economical crisis and also with an arrangement that we all would forget what happened. And, in Brazil, it was called the amnesty.

Few predicted that Fernanda Torres's name would be called out as ... six years after the military coup that plunged Brazil into a decades-long dictatorship. Rubens Paiva has spent this time ...

Star Fernanda Torres has a strong chance to win best actress ... than they have before,” says Bruna Santos, director of the Brazil institute at the independent Washington D.C. think thank ...

In Brazil, however, she was a superstar ... as an older version of Torres’s character during the film’s climax. Fernanda Torres in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated ‘I’m Still Here ...