O Oscarconsidered the main award in world cinema, takes place this Sunday (2). The Brazilian film “I’m Still Here“, directed by Walter Salles competes in the categories of Best Film, Best International Film e Best Actressfor the performance of Fernanda Torres.
This is Brazil’s fifth nomination for the Best International Film award. The first was with “The Promise Payer“, in 1963. In 1996 it was the film “The Quadril” and in 1998 “What’s That, Mate?“, .
In 1999, nominations came for “Central Brazil” and for Fernanda Montenegro in Best Actress. 26 years later, Walter Salles had a film nominated again and it was Montenegro’s daughter’s turn to try in the same category that her mother competed in.
With the five nominations, Brazil is the third country in Latin America with the most nominations in the Best International Film category at the Oscars. According to analysis of the CNN. In other words, Brazil represents 17.24% of the nominations for feature films in the region.
The country with the most nominations is Mexicowhich has accumulated nine since 1957. The country took the statuette in 2019, with “Roma”, which was also nominated for Best Film.
Secondly, the Argentinawith eight. The country, however, is the one that won the most in the category with two statuettes: one for “The Secret in Their Eyes” in 2010 and the other for “The Official History” in 1986.
Besides Mexico and Argentina, the only other country in Latin America to manage to win the Oscar is Chile. In 2018, the nation won the statuette for “A Fantastic Woman”.
Check out the ranking of Latin American countries that were nominated for Best International Film at the Oscars:
- Mexico: 9
- Argentina: 8
- Brazil: 5
- Chile: 2
- Colombia: 1
- Cuba: 1
- Nicaragua: 1
- Peru: 1
- Puerto Rico: 1
Brazil at the Oscars
In addition to the five nominations for Best International Film, .
The first was in 1945, with the song “Rio de Janeiro”, by Ary Barroso, which is part of the soundtrack for the film “Brazil”. In the same category, Brazil was only nominated again in 2012, for the song “Real in Rio” from the animation “Rio”.
Brazil has already received two nominations for Best Actress, for Fernanda Torres in “Still I’m Here” and Fernanda Montenegro in “Central do Brasil” (1999). For Best Director, nominations came in 1986 for “The Kiss of the Spider Woman” and in 2004 for “City of God”. The second also earned nominations for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Editing.
For Best Animated Film, nominations came for “The Boy and the World” in 2016 and “Ferdinand the Bull” in 2018, while Best Animated Short was contested by “Gone Nutty”, from 2004. For Best Feature Documentary, there were three: “Democracy in Vertigo” (2020), “The Salt of the Earth” (2015) and “El Salvador: Another Vietnam” (1982).
“Where I Live” won a nomination in 2022 in the category of Best Short Documentary, until then Brazil’s most recent nomination at the Oscars.
The previous year, “A Football Story” tried to win the statuette for Best Live Action Short, but came up empty-handed.
Oscar 2025
A 97th Academy Awards Ceremony takes place this (2), at the Dolby Theater, in Hollywood, with live broadcast in Brazil on TNT and Max, starting at 9pm (Brasília time).
“I’m Still Here” competes in three categories. .
Find out what Oscar coverage will be like on CNN Brasil:
*With information from Mariana Valbão, from CNN
