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

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 ...

Torres didn’t take home the Oscar for best actress, though I’m Still Here significantly won the best international feature film category. On the carpet before the ceremony, she dazzled in an ...

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.

Fernanda Torres has the chance to make history at the Oscars. The "I'm Still Here" star would become the first Brazilian actress to win the best actress award should her name be called on March 2.

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 ...

Walter Salles' 'Im Still Here' won Best International Feature Film at the 97th Academy Awards. Brazilians roared at home and ...

Fernanda Montenegro was nominated for nearly 30 years ago. Montenegro was the first Brazilian actress to be nominated for the award; Torres is the second. "I feel that we have a nominated DNA ...

including best picture and best actress (Torres). She’s only the second Brazilian actor to receive an Oscar nod: The first was her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated for Salles ...

In Brazil, however, she was a superstar ... as an older version of Torres’s character during the film’s climax. Fernanda Torres in Walter Salles’s Oscar-nominated ‘I’m Still Here ...

Starring Fernanda Torres and centring on a family torn apart by Brazil's military dictatorship, I'm Still Here is up for three major awards – and could pull off an upset on the night. When the ...