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

When Spanish actress Penélope Cruz announced that "I'm Still Here" was the winner of best international film at the Academy ...

Brazil has won its first Oscar for international feature for I'm Still Here, the story of a family broken apart amid a ...

Ever since Walter Salles' Brazilian political drama I'm Still Here debuted to acclaim at last September's Venice Film ...

Torres is the second Brazilian to be ever nominated in the Best Actress category, following her mother's nomination in 1999.

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 ...

I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, gave Brazil’s first Oscars win on Sunday in the best international film ...

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.

Torres is just the second Brazilian actress nominated for an Academy Award; her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, was the first.

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.

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 ...

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 ...