Oscars 2025: I’m Still Here highlights Brazil’s disappeared with powerful dramatisation of true story
Based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s 2015 memoir Ainda Estou Aqui, the film recounts the Paiva family’s harrowing 25-year long ...
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An Oscar-nominated film sparks a reckoning with Brazil’s dictatorship
The scene captures Brazil’s approach to the legacy of its dictatorship, which ruled from 1964 to 1985. Unlike in Argentina, ...
I’m Still Here film review — Oscar-nominated portrait of Brazil has darkly good timing
Yet the sky is blue, and the beaches full. And facing the sands in Rio is the loud and loving home of genial former ...
'It's exactly what the country needs': How Brazil propelled drama I'm Still Here to be this year's Oscars dark horse
Starring Fernanda Torres and centring on a family torn apart by Brazil's military dictatorship, I'm Still Here is up for ...
Fernanda Torres is making the Oscar run of her life. For Brazilians, she's already won something larger
Speaking to The Times in 2019, Brazilian acting legend Fernanda Montenegro described receiving an Academy Award nomination 20 ...
'I'm Still Here' earning an Oscar nomination for Best Picture 'still feels extraordinary,' its producer says
When I’m Still Here was announced as one of the 10 Best Picture Oscar nominees, its co-producer Maria Carlota Bruno described ...
Who is the only Brazilian to win an Oscar?
Brazilian films and filmmakers have been nominated for dozens of Oscars over the years, but so far, only person has won an ...
An Oscar frontrunner is based on a true story – but whose truth is it?
I’m Still Here’ is inspired by the ‘disappearance’ of a real-life congressman in Seventies Brazil, and directed by Walter Salles, a childhood friend of the congressman’s family. It’s just the latest ...
A family endures a dictatorship in the Oscar-nominated 'I'm Still Here'
A Brazilian family is rocked when the father disappears following a military coup. I'm Still Here tells the heroic true story ...
International Oscar Film Nominees Reflect on Political Turmoil: ‘It Just Proves That Maybe There Is No Real Recipe for What Works in Cinema’
International Oscar film nominees reflect common threads and political turmoil, dealing with deep-rooted issues in their ...
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Fernanda Torres is making the Oscar run of her life. For Brazilians, she's already won something larger
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 ...