Without a doubt, this year's Best Actress race is a nail-biter. With frontrunners Demi Moore (The Substance) and Mikey Madison (Anora) having split the major precursor awards, prognosticators are ...

Fernanda Torres has the chance to make history at the Oscars. The "I'm Still Here" star would become the first Brazil ian ...

It will be like the moon landing“ — to see if she takes best actress. But for the 'I’m Still Here' star, bringing the world's attention to a long-suppressed national trauma is the ultimate triumph.

Torres didn’t take home the Oscar for best actress, though I’m Still Here significantly won the best international feature ...

Well, this is Fernanda Torres’ first Oscar nomination in her career and sets her up for her first Oscar win if she’s victorious. Torres’ film was a surprise Best Picture nominee this year, and she is ...

Montenegro is a national acting legend — Brazil's Meryl Streep — who was a best actress Oscar nominee in 1999 for “Central Station.” The award instead went to Gwyneth Paltrow for “Shakespeare In Love” ...

Actress Fernanda Torres was also nominated for an Oscar for her leading role as Eunice Paiva. Her husband, Rubens Paiva, had been a congressman before the U.S.-backed coup d'etat in 1964.

“They treated me as an equal.” Now, in a fairy-tale-worthy full-circle moment, her daughter, Fernanda Torres, has landed her own lead actress Oscar nomination — Brazil’s second in history ...

Every item on this page was chosen by an ELLE editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. For mother-daughter duo Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres—“The ...

It’s Fernanda Torres, who’s competing for the best actress Oscar on Sunday. The Oscars fall smack in the middle of Carnival, Brazil’s largest celebration, which runs through Tuesday.