Oscar winner for best international film would be honored at the Great Othello Award, but will now play normally
THE Brazilian Cinema Academy He went back and decided to revoke the decision to offer the Great Othello Special Award 2025 to I’m still here, Walter Salles (Central do Brasil) Starring by FERNANDA TORRES (Tapas & Kisses).
Unanimously taken by the organization’s board, the decision – which had been criticized by several critics and film experts – would make Oscar winner for best international film last month, ineligible to the categories of GRANDE OTELO AWARDthe “Brazilian Oscar”. Check out the following gym statement:
“The Extraordinary Trajectory of the Movie I’m still here It unanimously made the board of the Brazilian Academy of Cinema, with approval of its Assembly, decided to offer the Special Award Greater Othello 2025 to the film, which would be received by Walter Salles and FERNANDA TORRES in the name of your entire team.
For this, although registered, we would have to remove it from the competition and resign it to the category ‘Hors Concours’ [ou seja, que tem a sua excelência incontestável, superando os demais concorrentes]. We received a request from the film producers today so that I’m still here Join this year’s award competition.
Thus, the Brazilian Cinema Academy, as it could not be different, abides and respects the decision of the producers, replacing the film in all categories they enrolled and removing it from the 2025 Special Award. “
What is the story of I’m still here?
Based on the book of the same name of 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 Eunice (FERNANDA TORRES, Tapas & Kisses), mother of five, who engages in an endless search for the truth after her husband, Rubens (Selton Mello, The Auto da Compadecida 2), be brought by police to the landscape and disappear.
In addition to FERNANDA TORRES and Selton Mello the feature still has Fernanda Montenegro (Invisible life), Antonio Saboia (Private desert), MAEVE JINKINGS (Toll), Humberto Carrão (Marighella), Marjorie Estiano (Under pressure), CAMILA MARDILA (What time does she come back?), Antonio Saboia (Private desert) and, among others, Charles Fricks (Elite Troop 2: The enemy is now another). Watch the trailer:
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Source: Rollingstone
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