First Great Oscar for Brazil – but it was not the first Portuguese movie to win the prize

“I’m still here” wins Oscar for best international film, on a night when the big protagonist was the movie “Anora”.

“Anora”, From Sean Baker, he won the Oscar for best film at the 97th edition of the Oscars of the Hollywood Academy of Film and Science.

The 97th edition of the Academy Awards took place tonight at Dolby Theater in Hollywood, with 52 films named in 23 categories.

Along with “Anora” were nominated for the best movie “The Brutalist”, “A Complete Unknown”, “Conclave”, “Dune: Part Two”, “Emilia Pérez”, “Nickel Boys”, “The Substance”, “Wicked” and “I’m still here”, by Walter Salles.

Adrien Brodyby “the brutalist”, and Mikey Madison, For “Anora”, they are the Oscar winners for best actor and best actress.

For best actress were also named Cynthia Erivo, by “Wicked”, Karla Sofa Gasco, by “Emilia Pérez”, Demi Moore, by “the substance”, and FERNANDA TORRESfor “I’m still here”.

Timothée Chalamet, for “A Complete Unknown”, Colman Sunday, for “Sing Sing”, Ralph Fiennes, for “Conclave”, and Sebastian Stan, “The Apprentice – The Story of Trump,” were the others named for best actor.

Sean Baker He won the Oscar for best achievement, for “Anora”.

All added, “Anora” was the film protagonist of the night, winning five Oscars: Best movie, accomplishment, original argument and montage (all for Sean Baker) and best actress (Mikey Madison).

Mikey Madison wins the for Lead Actress

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The Oscar for Best Photography/Cinematography went to “O Brutal, ”, The first for Brady Corbet’s movie, which added ten nominations. The second Oscar won by “The Brutalist” was the best original soundtrack.

Best wardrobe followed to “Wicked”, Better characterization for “The substance” And the best original song was “El Mal”, from “Emilia Pérez”.

“No other land”collective film made by Israelite and Palestinian activists and filmmakers, about the occupation of Palestinian territories by Israel, won Oscar for best feature film documentary.

The Oscar for Best Documentary in Short Film went to “The Only Girl in the Orchestra”vencendo sobre “Death by Numbers”, “I Am Ready, Warden”, “Incident” e “Instruments of a Beating Heart”.

The Oscar for best short film in ‘Live Action’ was to “I’m Not a Robot”. They were also named “Anja”, “A Lien”, “The Last Ranger” and “The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent.”

“Dune: part dois” He won the Oscars for best sound and best special effects, leaving behind “A Complete Unknown”, “Emilia Pérez”, “Wicked” and “Wild Robot”, in the first case, and “Alien: Romulus”, “Better Man”, “The Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes” and “Wicked” in the second.

First award for Brazil

“I’m still here”by Walter Salles, won the Oscar from Best International Film.

For the first time, one Fully Brazilian Movie gets this important trophy.

Brazilian director Walter Salles, who won the first Oscar of Brazil tonight with the movie “I’m Still Here”, considered that this recognition is for Brazilian culture and cinema, which now echoes around the world.

“It’s not a movie that is recognized, It is the culture that is being recognized, it is the way we do cinema in Brazilit is Brazilian literature with the book of Marcelo Paiva, it is Brazilian music, ”said the filmmaker, behind the scenes of the gym’s Oscar.

“This whole journey was about redoing the memory of a family while redoing the memory of a country for 21 years of military dictatorship,” said Salles, who dedicated the golden statuette to “three extraordinary women”: Eunice Paiva, the protagonist of history, and actresses Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro.

“I’m still here” refers to the period of the military dictatorship of Brazil (1964-1985), recovering the history of politician Rubens Paiva, who was arrested, tortured and dead, and his wife, activist Eunice Paiva. Fernanda Torres opposite actor Selton Mello.

The president of Brazil also already: “Today is the day to feel even more proud to be Brazilian. Pride of our cinema, our artists and, especially, proud of our democracy. ”

“Black Orpheus”

However, contrary to what has been announced, This is not the first Portuguese -spoken movie to win the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

In 1960 this prize was delivered to Black Orpheus, a movie totally in Portuguese of Brazil, which was filmed in the Rio de Janeiro.

With original soundtrack created by Tom Jobim, Luiz Bonfá, Vinicius de Moraes and Antonio Maria.

The production of this film was also Brazilian but had Other countries involved: Italy and France.

Especially France, it remembers: the Main Producer was French Disput Films. The participation of the French was greater than the Italian GEMMA Cinematographic and than the Brazilian Tupan Filmes. THE Responsible producer was the French Sacha Gordine.

So, officially, the Oscar went to France.

On the night of the prizes, that night of April 4, 1960, it was exactly the Frenchman Sacha Gordine receiving Oscar on stage. As he said in French, host Bob Hope later translated, in his own way, what Sacha had said: “I did the whole movie, alone.”