The best international feature Academy Award for Walter Salles’ timely drama backdropped the annual celebrations and ...

When Spanish actress Penélope Cruz announced that “I’m Still Here” was the winner of best international film at the Academy ...

Globo, Brazil's TV giant, issued a press release celebrating the win, Globo's first Oscar as it celebrates its 100th ...

Brazil erupted Sunday night when the movie I’m Still Here became the first Oscar winner in the country’s history — in the ...

Brazil’s Carnival muse this year isn’t one of the divas or drum queens parading with the Rio de Janeiro samba schools.

Rio de Janeiro's massive Sambadrome erupted in noisy celebrations Sunday as the news broke that Brazil won its first Oscar, ...

I’m Still Here,” a film about a family torn apart by the military dictatorship that ruled Brazil for more than two decades, gave Brazil’s first Oscars win on Sunday in the best international film ...

By Ana Ionova and Jack Nicas Reporting from Rio de Janeiro “I’m Still Here” — the Oscar best picture nominee about the murder of a Brazilian congressman by the country’s military ...

That’s why Torres, many believe, holds the power to do more than become the first Brazilian to win a major Oscar. “It’s just an award but it’s also much more than an award,” Ioris says.

In Brazil, however, she was a superstar, famed for her film and theatre work and for playing elegant matriarchs on TV soap operas. The year she was nominated for an Oscar, she received Brazil’s ...

The Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of a former Brazilian lawmaker who was abducted under Latin America’s longest lasting military dictatorship. Hundreds of soldiers arrive at rally ...

SAO PAULO — Brazilian author Marcelo Rubens Paiva happily ... The film, a rare blockbuster in the South American nation, garnered three Oscar nominations ahead of the awards ceremony Sunday.