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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...

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 has the chance to make history at the ... her experience breaking into an American audience coming from Brazil. "In Brazil, we are very proud of our culture and we consume our ...

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.

All of Brazil will tune in on Oscar night ... By Seth Abramovitch Senior Writer Fernanda Torres, the very down-to-earth diva of the Brazilian screen, emerges on the terrace of a midcentury ...

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 ...

Now, in a fairy-tale-worthy full-circle moment, her daughter, Fernanda Torres, has landed her own lead actress Oscar nomination — Brazil’s second in history — for the searing 1970s-set ...