It’s not a test! ‘I’m Still Here’ and Fernanda Torres are nominated for the 2025 Oscar

Brazil returns with strength to the main Oscar ceremony. The film “I’m Still Here”, directed by Walter Salles, was announced this Thursday, the 23rd, as nominated in two categories: Best Film and Best Foreign Film.

The awards ceremony will take place on March 2, and this historic milestone is the first time that a Brazilian production competes for the Best Film award.

Furthermore, the actress Fernanda Torres She received her Oscar nomination for Best Actress for her performance in “Still I’m Here”, breaking a 26-year fast without a Brazilian competing in that category. The last artist in the country to achieve this nomination was Fernanda Montenegroin 1999.

The film also makes history by being the first Brazilian since “Central do Brasil” (1999) to compete for the Best Foreign Film statuette. Recently, the documentary “Democracy in Vertigo”, by Petra Costa, was nominated for Best Documentary in 2020, and the animation O Menino e o Mundo, by Alê Abreuwas in the running for Best Animation in 2016, but lost to “DijanteMente”.

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“I’m Still Here” had its international premiere at the 2024 Venice Film Festival, where it won the award for Best Screenplay. On the awards circuit, Fernanda Torres She was also awarded Best Foreign Actress by the Critics Choice Association and Best Drama Actress at the Golden Globes, where she revealed that she was surprised and happy just for the nomination.