The film Still Here received three nominations for the 2025 Oscars. Fernanda Torres was nominated for Best Actress, while the Brazilian production competes in two categories: Best Picture and Best International Feature. The announcement was made on Thursday (January 23) in Los Angeles, USA.
Fernanda Torres is competing for the award alongside actresses Cynthia Erivo, Karla Sofía Gascón, Mikey Madison, and Demi Moore.
Earlier this month, Torres won the Golden Globe for Best Actress in a Drama, marking the first time the award has been given to a Brazilian.
Twenty-five years ago, Fernanda Montenegro, Torres’ mother, was nominated in the same category at the Oscars for her acclaimed performance in Central Station (1998). Although she did not win the Oscar, the film won the Golden Globe for Best Foreign Language Film.
Both Still Here and Central Station were directed by filmmaker Walter Salles. This year’s Academy Awards ceremony is scheduled for March 2 in Los Angeles.
Thank You Video
Fernanda Torres posted a video on social media shortly after the announcement of the nominations:
“My dear ones, I don’t even know what to say. I would like to thank Walter (the director), of course, for the generosity he had with me in this film, for the fact that our film is nominated not only for Best International Feature but for Best Picture of the Year. This is unimaginable. I would like to thank the entire team, my family in the film, my children in the film, Selton (the actor who played Ruben Paiva… it was a film we made with happiness. And above all, I want to thank and pay tribute to this extraordinary woman named Eunice Paiva, who is behind all of this, who is the generator of all of this. And to Marcelo Paiva, who wrote this extraordinary book that made it possible for us to make this film. I will never forget it. It is something historic.”
Source: Agência Brasil