The Academy revealed this Thursday (23) the nominees for 97th Academy Awards Ceremony which takes place on March 2. According to a survey carried out by CNN the category of Best Actress will have four first-time nominees that is, more artists competing in the category for the first time since 2020.
Featured in this edition, we have the Brazilian Fernanda Torres 59, who competes for his work in “I’m Still Here” a film that received two other nominations. In addition to being her debut at the award, she became the second Brazilian to be nominated in the category, behind her mother, Fernanda Montenegro nominated in 1999 for “Central do Brasil”.
The other newcomers to this year’s award are: Karla Sofía Gascón by “Emilia Pérez”, Mikey Madison from “Anora” and Demi Moore from “The Substance”. Cynthia Erivo nominated for “Wicked”, is nominated again and has already accumulated three nominations.
Since 2020, other actresses have also competed for the famous statuette for the first time, such as the actress Andra Day for “United States vs. Billie Holiday” and Vanessa Kirby from “Pieces of a Woman”, both in 2021.
Kristen Stewart, Michelle Yeoh, Ana de Armas and Andrea Risebordough are also on this list. In the last edition, Lily Gladstone and Sandra Hüller They were also newcomers to the awards for their roles in “Killers of the Flower Moon” and “Anatomy of a Fall”, respectively.
This content was originally published in Oscar has more actresses competing for Best Actress for the first time since 2020 on the CNN Brasil website.
Source: CNN Brasil

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