Fernanda Torres is the first Brazilian to win the Best Drama Actress Golden Globe
Fernanda Torres is going in the Golden Globes history books. The I’m Still Here star won the Best Drama Actress Golden Globe on Sunday, becoming the first Brazilian to win the prize.
Torres is only the second Brazilian to be nominated in the category, following her mother Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated 26 years ago for Central Station; she lost to Cate Blanchett for Elizabeth. Torres dedicated her award to her mother, adding that her win is proof that “art can endure in life.”
The actress is also the fourth performer to win the category for a non-English language performance after Anouk Aimée (A Man and a Woman), Liv Ullman (The Emigrants), and Isabelle Huppert (Elle). I’m Still Here, Brazil’s international feature submission at the Oscars, is in Portuguese.
Torres was in third place in the odds behind Angelina Jolie (Maria) and Nicole Kidman (Babygirl). The category was unusually soft as only two nominees — Torres and The Last Showgirl’s Pamela Anderson — saw their films nominated in other categories, Best Non-English Language Film and Best Original Song, respectively. The other nominees were Kate Winslet (Lee) and Tilda Swinton (The Room Next Door).
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Now the question is: Does this victory secure an Oscar nomination for Torres? She’s in eighth place in the Best Actress odds and missed the BAFTA longlist on Friday. This year is also unique with most of the Oscar frontrunners competing in comedy/musical at the Globes. Demi Moore (The Substance) won the comedy/musical actress Globe over Mikey Madison (Anora), Cynthia Erivo (Wicked), and Karla Sofía Gascón (Emilia Pérez). All four are in the Best Actress Oscar top five along with Jolie.
Only twice in Globes history has the Best Drama Actress champ missed a corresponding Oscar nomination, but they both come with an asterisk. MacLaine won in a three-way tie at the Globes for 1988’s Madame Sousatzka with Jodie Foster (The Accused) and Sigourney Weaver (Gorillas in the Mist), but only Foster and Weaver were Oscar-nominated, with the former winning. Winslet won the Globe for 2008’s Revolutionary Road, but the Oscars nominated and awarded her in Best Actress for The Reader, for which she won the Globe in supporting.