Oscar 2025 nominations: Fernanda Torres makes family history
Fernanda Torres has made history, becoming only the second Brazilian actor to be nominated for ‘Best Actress’ at the Academy Awards. To make the moment even more historic, the first actor to earn the distinction was Torres’s mother, Fernanda Montenegro, for her role in the 1998 film Central Station.
Torres has already earned a Golden Globe award for her performance in Walter Salles’ critically acclaimed historical drama I’m Still Here, in which she plays a grieving wife in Rio de Janeiro whose husband is disappeared by the authoritarian government.
Although she was heavily tipped to earn the nomination, Torres faces stiff competition from Demi Moore, who earned rave reviews for her ferocious comeback in Coralie Fargeat’s body horror hit The Substance. She is also pitted against Mikey Madison for Sean Baker’s Anora, Cynthia Erivo for the musical Wicked, and Karla Sofía Gascón for Jacques Audiard’s Emilia Pérez.
Torres is not the first daughter of an Oscar nominee to be nominated for an award this year. Isabella Rossellini followed in her mother, Ingrid Bergman’s footsteps, when she earned the nomination for ‘Best Supporting Actress’ for her brief but powerful appearance in Edward Berger’s Conclave. Bergman won three Oscars throughout her lengthy career and earned a further four nominations.
I’m Still Here has also been nominated for ‘Best International Feature’ and ‘Best Picture,’ though Salles lost out on a ‘Best Director’ nod.
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