Los Angeles: Walter Salles’ play “I Am Still Hier” has marked a historic first to Brazil as it took the Academy Award home in the International Feature category.
‘I am Still Hear’, which tells the real-life story of the decades-discovery of Unis Piva for justice after the disappearance of her husband during the Brazilian military dictatorship, is gaining momentum in recent weeks,
The film defeated France’s “Emilia Perez,” The Seed of the Sacred Fig of Germany, “Denmark’s” The Girl with the Needle “and Latvia’s” Flow “.
“I am very respected to achieve this, and in such an extraordinary group of filmmakers,” SALles said during his acceptance speech.
He said: “It goes to a woman, who does not decide to bow down after facing losses during a ruling rule. And to protest. So, this award goes to him. And it goes to two extraordinary women who gave them life to Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro. ,
Brazil has presented films in the International Feature category every year since 1960, with five earlier nominations: “Promise of Promise” (1962), “O Quetrilho” (1995), “Four Days in September” (1997), “Central Station” (1998) (1998) and now, “I am Stell Hear.” Tonight, however, the country never won the category.
The victory is particularly poignant for salles, who also directed the final Brazilian film “Central Station” to receive nominations.
The film’s leading actress, Fernanda Montenegro, made history as the first Brazil actor to be nominated for the Academy Award. Now, her daughter, Fernanda Torres, runs on her footsteps, as the same category nominated as another Brazilian artist.
Their nominations are placed by Montenegro and Torres among an elite group of Oscar-namine mother-daughter blessings, including Judi Garland and Liza Minanelli, Dianne Ladd and Laura Dern, Janet Leh and Jamie Lee Kurtis, Goldie Haun and Kate Hudson, and Kate Hudson, and Ingrid Bermen and Izabella Rewelinni.
