Candidate film in 3 Oscar categories is the only Brazilian among the 10 largest collections in theaters
The movie “I’m still here”,, was the 5th with the largest box office in Brazilian theaters in 2024. In a list dominated by foreign works, the feature of Walter Salles was the only Brazilian to enter the top 10 last year’s collections.
From November 7 to December 31, the film raised R $ 77.8 million with approximately 2.97 million viewers in theaters.
“I’m still here” Only behind 3 animated films that attract large children’s audience, and one of the superhero genre, with a large base of nerd universe fans. It was the most watched drama movie that most raised over 2024.
Among the top 10 on the list, it is also the most Oscar indications (3): best film, best international film and best actress for Fernanda Torres’ performance as lawyer and activist Eunice Paiva.
Only 2 other feature films in top 10 Boxes were remembered by the Academy of Film Arts and Sciences. “Funny 2”the biggest revenue of the year, competes for better animation, while “Planet of the Apes: The Reign” dispute in special effects.
See the 10 largest box office in Brazil in 2024:
5th largest audience since 2018
Adding the January 2025 box office, “I’m still here” It has attracted 3.52 million viewers. The number puts the feature as the 5th most watched in Brazil in the last 8 years. It is the film produced in the postpandy period among the 10 most popular in theaters in the country.
The list is led by the work “Nothing to lose” (2018), which tells the story of Bishop Edir Macedo, founder of the Universal Church and owner of TV Record. The feature had a sequence, released in 2019, which appears in 4th place.
Six of the 10 films are of comedy genre and 1 is childish. Walter Salles’s work is the only dramatic.
“I’m still here” Not Oscar
The movie “I’m still here”by director Walter Salles, starring Fernanda Torres (Eunice Paiva) and Selton Mello (Rubens Paiva), was nominated for 3 Oscar categories. In March, the statuettes of best film, best international film and best actress-last for the interpretation of Fernanda Torres as lawyer and activist Eunice Paiva (1929-2018).
Fernanda already for the performance. In the awards, the feature lost the dispute of best international film to “Emilia Pérez”directed by the French Jacques Audiard.
The election of the academy involves almost 11,000 of its members. The voting window begins on February 11 and ends on the 15th of the same month. The Oscar delivery ceremony will be on March 2 at Dolby Theater in Hollywood.
