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

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

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 ...

For decades, nobody was held accountable for killings and forced disappearances at the hands of Brazil’s military ... “I’m Still Here” — the Oscar best picture nominee about the murder ...

After Gascón's Oscar nomination was announced (she was ... the wife of politician Rubens Paiva, who opposed Brazil's military dictatorship in the 1960s and '70s. In 1971 Rubens was kidnapped ...

a Latin American expert at the University of Denver and author of the influential political history Transforming Brazil. “Were it to win an Oscar it could drive the conversation more and even be ...

The Oscar-nominated film tells the true story of ... rally organized by then President João Goulart in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on March 13, 1964. The rally was allegedly one of the reasons ...

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 ...