‚The Brutalist‘ also wins a pair of Oscars for cinematography and original score.
“I’m Still Here,” the Brazilian film based on the true story of an ordinary woman who found herself fighting her nation’s military dictatorship, won the Oscar for best international film at the Academy Awards on Sunday.
Director Walter Salles thanked the other creators of films, which included the French nominee “Emilia Perez” and from Germany “The Seed of the Sacred Fig,” and then paid tribute to the women who inspired and created the lead character in “I’m Still Here.”
“This goes to a woman who after a loss suffered during an authoritarian regime decided to resist,” Salles said. “Her name in Eunice Paiva. And it goes to the two extraordinary women who gave life to her, Fernanda Torres and Fernanda Montenegro.” (Torres plays Paiva for the bulk of the film, and Montenegro, her mother, plays Paiva late in life.
