CinemaFernanda Torres may avenge Fernanda Montenegro’s defeat at Oscar for 25 years of view to the Award for her work in Central do Brasil, the actress lost her statuette to Gwyneth Paltrow, from Shakespeare Passionate Writing

Brazil has never been as close to the Oscar as in 2025, with I’m still here, Walter Salles (Central do Brasil), nominated in three categories: best movie, best international film and best actress for FERNANDA TORRES (Tapas & Kisses), which should avenge your mother’s defeat in the 1999 edition of the biggest cinema awards.

25 years ago, Fernanda Montenegro lost Oscar and Brazil suffered her most painful defeat

In the past, Brazil came close to taking the coveted gold statuette, but did not. In 1960, Black orphew (1959), filmed in Brazil, with Brazilian actors and spoken in Portuguese, won the award, but the statuette went to France. In 1982, Pixote: The law of the weaker (1980), from Babenco Héctor (1946-2016), was disqualified even before having his chance. However, it was in 1999 that the country suffered its most painful defeat.

That year, Brazil competed for the fourth time for the award for Best Foreign Film for Central do Brasilbut all eyes were turned to an even greater event: Fernanda Montenegro had been nominated for the category of best actress for her performance in the feature.

In Central do Brasilshe interpreted Doera bitter former teacher, who makes a living writing letters to illiterate people and sees her life change after one of her clients dies in a traffic accident and she needs to help her son, Joshua (Vinícius de Oliveira, Basic unit), nine years old, finding the father he never knew.

Besides being a success in Brazilian theaters, the feature also won the world. Described as a production “Little, modest, nothing seeking to be huge”, Fernanda Montenegro He revealed to believe that chance eventually led the feature to travel across the globe:

“But chance always has the last word. This is a basic phrase of [escritora e filósofa] Simone de Beauvoirand chance made this movie go around the world. And where he went, he was well received “said in an interview with Simone Zucolottofor the Canal Brasilin April 2023.

By the work, Fernanda Montenegro He won the best actress silver bear at the Berlin International Festival, and was nominated for the Golden Globe and the Satellite Awards, among many other awards, before securing a place among the best actress in the 71st Oscar edition, which took place on March 21, 1999.

With the nomination, the actress became the first Latin American, the first Brazilian and the first actress named by a Portuguese language performance in the history of the Oscar. Unfortunately, even with historical achievements, Fernanda Montenegro ended up losing the gold statuette to Gwyneth Paltrowby Shakespeare in love(1998).

Years after the defeat, the actress commented that the lack of awards for the feature – which also did not win the category of best foreign film, now known as the best international film – does not diminish its importance:

“Awards sometimes come. Sometimes no. The moment of that Oscar was unexpected. So what? The movie Walter Salles It remains a wonderful ‘non -Oscar’. Life continued. Life continues ”declared to the magazine Look.

In October 2023, more than twenty years after winning the Oscar for Best Actress, Gwyneth Paltrow It generated Brazilians’ revolt by claiming that he uses the statuette as a doorway and had to deny the information, saying that his comment was just a joke.

Rolling Stone Brazil Cinema Special

The cinema is the subject of the new special printed of the Rolling Stone Brazil. In a magazine dedicated to seventh art lovers, we interviewed Francis Ford Coppolawhich reaches 85 years amid the release of his new movie, Megalópolisbold and millionaire endeavor financed by himself.

Unshable in the face of controversial reactions to the novelty, which took about 40 years to get out of paper, the filmmaker defends the boldness of being creative of the film industry and opens, in good Portuguese, the influence of Brazil on his new movie: “Joy”.

The special also brings conversations with Walter Salles, FERNANDA TORRES and Selton Mello on I’m still herea chat about soundtracks with the conductor João Carlos Martinsan exclusive list of the 100 best films in history (50 nationals, 50 international), another list of the 101 largest trails in the history of cinema, one warm for the Oscar 2025 and the radar of globe launches, Globo Filmes, O2 Play and O2 movies for the coming months.

The Special Cinema of Rolling Stone Brazil It is already on newsstands, but can also be bought at the EDITORA PROFILE store for R $ 29.90. Check it out:

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