The actress Fernanda Torres 59, published an emotional video for Thank you for your Oscar nomination for Best Actress . She said she was “very happy, very scared and very proud.”
Directed by Walter Salles, “I’m Still Here” received three Oscar 2025 nominations: Best Film – making history as the first Brazilian feature film nominated in the main category –, Best International Film and Best Actress, for Torres’ performance.
“Dear ones, I don’t even have anything to say. I wanted to thank Walter, for the generosity he showed me on this film, for the fact that our film was nominated not only for foreign language film, but for best film of the year. This is an unimaginable thing”, she said in the video published on her Instagram this Thursday (23).
The actress also thanked the entire team that was part of the film, especially the actor Selton Mello and the actors who played the children of Eunice and Rubens Paiva.
“Above all, I want to thank and honor this extraordinary woman called Eunice Paiva, who is behind it all and is the generator of it all. And thank Marcelo Paiva, who wrote this extraordinary book that made it possible for us to make this film”, he added.
“I will never forget it, it is a historic and emotional thing for me. Because my mother was in this place 25 years ago at the hands of Walter, and also because of what this means for Brazilian cinema, for Brazilian culture. A film spoken in Portuguese. I am very excited, very surprised”, said Fernanda Torres.
“I wanted to say that I love Brazil, like this. I am very proud that a Brazilian story makes sense in the world and brings us this joy. Not just for me, for Walter, for everyone involved in this film, but for the entire country. I’m very happy, very scared, very proud. And long live Eunice Paiva!”, concluded the actress.
Watch the entire video below:
THE ceremony of the 97th Academy Awards is scheduled for March 2 in Los Angeles, in the United States. See the full list of nominees.
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This content was originally published in Fernanda Torres is moved by Oscar nominations: “Happy and scared” on the CNN Brasil website.
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