97 years of the Academy Awards and records are still made to be broken. This year, history was made when Walter Salles’ “I’m Still Here” won the International Feature Film Academy Award.
After five previous nominations, the harrowing true story has become Brazil’s first winner in the category. At one point known as Foreign Language Film, the South American powerhouse only began submitting to this category in 1960.
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