First Brazilian film to win an Oscar

I'm Still Here, which tells the true story of Eunice Paiva's (Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro) decades-long search for justice after her husband disappeared during Brazil's military dictatorship, has garnered attention in recent weeks. Its Oscar nomination for Best Picture, along with Best International Feature and Best Actress nods for star Fernanda Torres, have cemented its status.

I'm Still Here beat films like Emilia Pérez (France), The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Germany), The Girl With the Needle (Denmark) and Flow (Latvia).

Director Walter Salles wins Best International Feature Film for I'm Still Here

"I am honored to receive this award and to be fortunate enough to be in the company of such an extraordinary group of filmmakers. This award is for a woman who, after suffering loss during a dictatorship, decided to fight back. So this award is for her and the two actresses who gave her life: Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro," said Walter Salles when accepting the award.

Brazil has submitted a film to the Oscars for Best International Feature Film every year since 1960 and has received five previous nominations: Keeper of Promises (1962), O Quatrilho (1995), Four Days in September (1997), Central Station (1998) and now I'm Still Here . However, until this year's ceremony, the country had yet to win in this category.

The award is particularly meaningful for Walter Salles, who directed Central Station , the last Brazilian film to receive an Oscar nomination. That film's lead actress, Fernanda Montenegro, made history as the first Brazilian actress to be nominated for an Oscar. Now her daughter, Fernanda Torres, has followed suit, becoming only the second Brazilian to be nominated in the same category.

Their nomination puts them in an elite group of mother-daughter Oscar nominees, including Judy Garland-Liza Minnelli, Diane Ladd-Laura Dern, Janet Leigh-Jamie Lee Curtis, Goldie Hawn-Kate Hudson and Ingrid Bergman-Isabella Rossellini (who received a nomination this year for Conclave ).

Ahead of the awards ceremony, many experts predicted that the French work, Netflix's musical crime film Emilia Pérez, would win the award in this category, more than 30 years after Indochine won this honor in 1992.

I'm Still Here and Emilia Pérez were also nominated for Best Picture. This is the first time international films have been nominated in the top category. To date, Parasite remains the only film to win both Best Picture and Best International Feature.

Sony Pictures' I'm Still Here was a landmark for Brazilian cinema and cemented Walter Salles' legacy as one of the country's most talented filmmakers with an Oscar nod.

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