The best international feature Academy Award for Walter Salles’ timely drama backdropped the annual celebrations and ...

When Spanish actress Penélope Cruz announced “I'm Still Here” as the winner of the international feature at the Academy ...

Globo, Brazil's TV giant, issued a press release celebrating the win, Globo's first Oscar as it celebrates its 100th ...

I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, ...

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

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 Ana Ionova and Jack Nicas Reporting from Rio de Janeiro “I’m Still Here” — the Oscar best picture nominee about the murder of a Brazilian congressman by the country’s military ...

That’s why Torres, many believe, holds the power to do more than become the first Brazilian to win a major Oscar. “It’s just an award but it’s also much more than an award,” Ioris says.

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 ...

The Oscar-nominated Brazilian drama “I’m Still Here” is a family film, but not in the way you might think. It’s about a family on the screen and it’s also about another family behind the ...

Speaking to The Times in 2019, Brazilian acting legend Fernanda Montenegro described receiving an Academy Award nomination 20 years earlier for her role in Walter Salles’ “Central Station ...

In Brazil, however, she was a superstar, famed for her film and theatre work and for playing elegant matriarchs on TV soap operas. The year she was nominated for an Oscar, she received Brazil’s ...