Walter Salles
2025 Oscars: ‘I’m Still Here’ Star Fernanda Torres Repeats Mother’s Historic Best Actress Nom
The Brazilian star's mother secured an Academy Award nomination for best actress 26 years ago.
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‘I’m Still Here’ Star Fernanda Torres on a True-Life Story of Resistance: “They Couldn’t Break Her”
The Brazilan actress pulled off a surprise Golden Globe best actress win for her role in Walter Salles' true-life drama, playing a mother of five who reinvents herself after her husband is "disappeared" by the Brazilian dictatorship in the 1970s.
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These Are the Oscar Snubs That Stars Can’t Get Past
From Maren Morris to Jon M. Chu, today's entertainment bigwigs weigh in on the Oscar reality they wish we lived in.
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Walter Salles’ Return After a 12-Year Absence Is Worth the Wait
His new movie ‘I'm Still Here’ tells a touching and timely political story.
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Anonymous Content Execs on Walter Salles Doc Series About Brazil Soccer Star Socrates, English-Language Spanish Civil War Project
Top executives from the company behind Alfonso Cuarón's 'Disclaimer' and 'Spotlight' discussed its joint ventures in Spain and Brazil at Iberseries & Platino Industria in Madrid.
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Oscars 2025: Brazil Submits Walter Salles’ ‘I’m Still Here’ for Best International Feature
26 years after his Academy Award-nominated 'Central Station,' Salles is back in the Oscar race with a family drama set during Brazil's military dictatorship.
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Toronto: Brazilian Pic ‘I’m Still Here’ Pops at Fest, Could Strongly Contend for International Feature Oscar
The film could be Brazil's first Oscar nominee since 'Central Station' — from the same director, Walter Salles — 26 years ago, and could also, like that film, land a best actress nom, for Fernanda Torres.
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‘I’m Still Here’ Review: Walter Salles Returns Home With the Powerful Story of a Broken Family’s Resistance
Premiering at Venice, the film stars Fernanda Torres as a mother of five children who reinvents herself as a lawyer and activist after suffering a devastating loss at the height of Brazil’s military dictatorship.
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‘The Movie Teller’ Review: Berenice Bejo and Daniel Bruhl in Lone Scherfig’s Graceful but Slight Drama About Film Love
The director of 'An Education' delivers a different 1960s-set coming-of-age story, this one set in a Chilean mining town.
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Angelo Badalamenti, David Lynch’s Composer on ‘Blue Velvet,’ ‘Twin Peaks’ and More, Dies at 85
He also wrote songs recorded by Nina Simone, Nancy Wilson, Shirley Bassey and Mel Tillis and themes for 'Inside the Actors Studio' and the Barcelona Summer Olympics.
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Toronto: Kristen Stewart Reflects on Portraying Princess Diana in ‘Spencer’
"The only way to catch something wild is to be that," Stewart said of her transformation as the iconic late Royal in Pablo Larrain's biopic.
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‘Unremember’ (‘Deslembro’): Film Review | Venice 2018
When a teenage girl’s family moves back to her birthplace in Brazil, she discovers a world full of memories in Flavia Castro’s feature debut 'Unremember' ('Deslembro').
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