Fernanda Torres Thanks Her Mother During Golden Globes Best Actress Win: “Art Can Endure Through Life”
I’m Still Here star Fernanda Torres dedicated her Golden Globes best actress in a drama win to her mother, Fernanda Montenegro, who was nominated in 1999 for Central Station.
Montenegro was the first Brazilian actress to be nominated 25 years ago, and now her daughter is the second, Torres told Entertainment Tonight ahead of the show.
“I didn’t prepare anything because I was glad already,” Torres said when she took the stage. “And this is such an amazing year for female performances, so many actresses here that I admire so much… I want to dedicate it to my mother. She was here 25 years ago. And this is like a proof that art can endure through life, even in difficult moments like this amazing story. … There’s something that is happening now in the world with so much fear. And this is a film that helped us to think how to survive in tough times like this.”
In I’m Still Here, Torres plays Eunice Paiva, a mother of six and wife to former Brazilian congressman Rubens Paiva. When Rubens is “disappeared” by the Brazilian regime, during the country’s military dictatorship — which ran from 1964 to 1985 — Paiva reinvents herself as a human rights lawyer and activist, fighting for justice for herself and families like hers.
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Viola Davis, who was this year’s recipient of the Cecil B. DeMille award, presented the award.
Torres was nominated alongside Pamela Anderson (The Last Showgirl), Angelina Jolie (Maria), Nicole Kidman (Babygirl), Tilda Swinton (The Room Next Door) and Kate Winslet (Lee).
Golden Globes producer Dick Clark Productions is owned by Penske Media Eldridge, a joint venture between Penske Media Corporation and Eldridge that also owns The Hollywood Reporter.
