Fernanda Torres landed a Finest Actress nomination this morning from the American Academy for her main flip in Walter Salles’s newest I’m Nonetheless Right here.
Torres is simply the second Brazilian actress to obtain an Oscar nomination. The primary was her mom, Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated in 1999 for Central Station, additionally directed by Salles.
I’m Nonetheless Right here was co-written by Murilo Hauser and Heitor Lorega and is predicated on Marcelo Rubens Paiva’s memoir of the identical identify set throughout Brazil’s navy dictatorship within the early Seventies. The central determine is Paiva’s mother Eunice, a mom of 5 who’s compelled to reinvent herself and her household after her husband Rubens, a politician and engineer who opposed the regime, grew to become one of many authorities’s desaparecidos (the disappeared), and was tortured and killed.
Sony Photos Classics, which additionally launched Central Station, acquired I’m Nonetheless Right here out of the Cannes market and world premiered it at Venice, the place it bought a 10-minute ovation and gained Salles the director prize and Hauser and Lorega the screenplay prize. It has turn out to be a field workplace hit in Brazil, grossing over $10 million within the residence market, making it the yr’s prime title there. The movie hit U.S. theaters through SPC on January 17 after choosing up a pair of Golden Globe nominations for Worldwide Movie and Finest Actress for Torres. She ended up profitable that award too.
I’m Nonetheless Right here landed three general nominations this morning. The opposite two have been in Finest Image and Worldwide Function. In different parental-related Oscar information, Isabella Rossellini landed her first Oscar nomination in Finest Supporting Actress for Conclave. Rossellini’s mom Ingrid Bergman gained the identical award in 1975 for Homicide on the Orient Categorical.
