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Walter Salles Honors Women At The Heart Of ‘I’m Still Here’ As Brazil Wins First International Feature Oscar
Walter Salles’ I’m Still Here scooped the Best International Feature Film Oscar, marking the first time that an entry from Brazil has won the category
Salles, who has repped Brazil four times now and was nominated for 1998’s Central Station, was greeted with a standing ovation amid loud cheers from the audience as he made his way to the Dolby stage. In her review for Deadline, Stephanie Bunbury called it “ultimately a celebration of Brazil — not only of the resilience of its liberalism under tyrannical rulers, but of its sunlight, its carnival spirit and the delicious blue of the sea that rolls onto Rio de Janeiro’s broad beaches.” Other films vying in the International Feature category this evening included Emilia Pérez, The Girl with the Needle, The Seed of the Sacred Fig and Flow.
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