CinemaCritics Choice Awards 2025 postponed for the second time; check new date Still I’m Here, a feature film by Walter Salles (Central do Brasil) starring Fernanda Torres (Fim), is among this year’s competitorsBy Editorial Staff

Due to the fires raging in Los Angeles, California (USA), the next edition of Critics Choice Awards was postponed once again. Previously scheduled to take place on January 12th in Santa Monica, California, the ceremony was postponed until January 26th and will now only take place in February 7, 2025.

On his journey to an Oscar berth, I’m Still Herelong Walter Salles (Central Brazil), competes in the category of Best Foreign Language Film. The production, starring Fernanda Torres(Slaps & Kisses), dispute against Everything We Imagine as Light, Emilia Pérez, Flow, The Seed of the Sacred Fruit and Kneecap – Music and Freedom. Check out the full list:

Best Film

• A Complete Stranger
• Anora
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Dune: Part 2
• Emilia Pérez
• Nickel Boys
• sing sing
• The Substance
• Wicked

Best Actor

• Adrien Brody – The Brutalist
• Timothée Chalamet – A Complete Stranger
• Daniel Craig – Queer
• Colman Domingo – Sing Sing
• Ralph Fiennes – Conclave
• Hugh Grant – Heretic

Best Actress

• Cynthia Erivo – Wicked
• Karla Sofía Gascón – Emilia Pérez
• Marianne Jean-Baptiste – Hard Truths
• Angelina Jolie – Maria
• Mikey Madison – Anora
• Demi Moore – The Substance

Best Supporting Actor

• Yura Borisov – Anora
• Kieran Culkin – True Grief
• Clarence Maclin – Sing Sing
• Edward Norton – A Complete Stranger
• Guy Pearce – The Brutalist
• Denzel Washington – Gladiator II

Best Supporting Actress

• Danielle Deadwyler – The Piano Lesson
• Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor – Nickel Boys
• Ariana Grande – Wicked
• Margaret Qualley – The Substance
• Isabella Rossellini – Conclave
• Zoe Saldaña – Emilia Pérez

Best Young Actor or Actress

• Alyla Browne – Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
• Elliott Heffernan – Blitz
• Maisy Stella – My Old Ass
• Izaac Wang – Didi
• Alisha Weir – Abigail
• Zoe Ziegler – Janet Planet

Best Cast

• Anora
• Conclave
• Emilia Pérez
• Saturday Night
• sing sing
• Wicked

Best Director

• Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
• Sean Baker – Anora
• Edward Berger – Conclave
• Brady Corbet – The Brutalist
• Jon M. Chu – Wicked
• Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
• RaMell Ross – Nickel Boys
• Denis Villeneuve – Dune: Part 2

Best Original Screenplay

• Sean Baker – Anora
• Moritz Binder, Tim Fehlbaum, Alex David – September 5
• Brady Corbet, Mona Fastvold – The Brutalist
• Jesse Eisenberg – True Pain
• Coralie Fargeat – The Substance
• Justin Kuritzkes – Rivals

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Jacques Audiard – Emilia Pérez
• Winnie Holzman & Dana Fox – Wicked
• Greg Kwedar & Clint Bentley – Sing Sing
• RaMell Ross & Joslyn Barnes – Nickel Boys
• Peter Straughan – Conclave
• Denis Villeneuve & Jon Spaihts – Dune: Part 2

Best Photography

• Nosferatu
• Wicked
• The Brutalist
• Conclave
• Dune: Part 2
• Nickel Boys

Best Production Design

• The Brutalist
• Wicked
• Conclave
• Nosferatu
• Gladiator II
• Dune: Part 2

Best Assembly

• Anora
• Rivals
• Conclave
• The Brutalist
• Dune: Part 2
• September 5

Best Costume

• Conclave
• Nosferatu
• Maria Callas
• Wicked
• Dune: Part 2
• Gladiator II

Best Hair & Makeup

• Ghosts Still Have Fun: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
• Dune: Part 2
• The Substance
• Wicked
• Nosferatu
• A Different Man

Best Visual Effects

• Gladiator II
• Wicked
• Dune: Part 2
• Better Man – The Robbie Williams Story
• The Substance
• Planet of the Apes: Reign

Best Animated Feature

• Flow
• Inside Out 1
• Memoir of a Snail
• Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
• Wild Robot

Best Comedy

• The True Pain
• Deadpool & Wolverine
• Accidental Killer
• My Old Ass
• Saturday Night
• Thelma

Best Foreign Language Film

• Everything We Imagine as Light
• Emilia Pérez
• Flow
• I’m Still Here
• Kneecap – Music and Freedom
• The Seed of the Sacred Fig

Best Song

• “Beautiful That Way” – The Last Showgirl – Miley Cyrus
• “Compress / Repress” – Rivals – Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
• “El Mal” – Emilia Pérez – Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Camille
• “Harper and Will Go West” – Will & Harper – Kristen Wiig
• “Kiss the Sky” – Wild Robot – Maren Morris
• “Mi Camino” – Emilia Pérez – Selena Gomez

Best Original Score

• Volker Bertelmann – Conclave
• Daniel Blumberg – The Brutalist
• Kris Bowers – Wild Robot
• Clément Ducol & Camille – Emilia Pérez
• Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross – Rivals
• Hans Zimmer – Dune: Part 2

What is the story of I’m Still Here?

Based on the book of the same name by Marcelo Rubens Paiva, I’m Still Hereis set in Rio de Janeiro, in the early 1970s, amid the military dictatorship, and tells the story of Eunicemother of five children, who becomes involved in an endless search for the truth after her husband, Rubensbe taken away by undercover police officers and disappear.

The film stars Fernanda Torres (End) and also has Fernanda Montenegro (The Invisible Life), Selton Mello (The Movie of My Life), Maeve Jinkings (Toll), Antonio Saboia (Private Destination), Humberto Carrão (Marighella) and Marjorie Estiano (Under pressure) in the cast. Watch the trailer:

Rolling Stone Brazil film special

Cinema is the theme of the new printed special from Rolling Stone Brazil. In a magazine dedicated to lovers of the seventh art, we interviewed Francis Ford Coppolawho turns 85 amid the release of his new film, Megalopolisa bold and million-dollar undertaking financed by himself.

Unshakable in the face of controversial reactions to the novelty, which took around 40 years to get off the ground, the filmmaker defends the cinema industry’s boldness in being creative and opens up, in plain Portuguese, about Brazil’s influence in his new film: “Alegria” .

The special also features conversations with Walter Salles, Fernanda Torres and Selton Mello on I’m Still Herea chat about soundtracks with the maestro João Carlos Martinsan exclusive list with the 100 best films in history (50 national, 50 international), another list with the 101 greatest soundtracks in the history of cinema, a warm-up for Oscar 2025 and the release radar of Globoplay, Globo Filmes, O2 Play and O2 Filmes for the coming months.

The movie special Rolling Stone Brazil It is already on newsstands, but can also be purchased at the Perfil publisher’s store for R$29.90. Check it out:

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