Why These Oscars Mean So Much to Brazil

Why These Oscars Mean So Much to Brazil

Oscars 2025: Follow live updates on the 97th Academy Awards. The streets of Rio de Janeiro have been littered with Fernanda Torres imitators. They drink beer, clutch plastic Oscars and deliver the impromptu acceptance speeches that they hope their idol, the Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres, will give on Sunday night at the Academy Awards. “It’s…

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Golden Globes Highlights: ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ Win Top Film Awards

Golden Globes Highlights: ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Emilia Pérez’ Win Top Film Awards

Adrien Brody won best actor in a film drama for his performance in “The Brutalist.”Credit…Rich Polk/Penske Media, via Getty Images Golden Globe voters did little to clear up a blurry awards picture in Hollywood on Sunday, giving little-seen films like “The Brutalist” and “Emilia Pérez” roughly equal treatment and snubbing some perceived Oscar front-runners, including…

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Golden Globes Stars Avoided Politics

Golden Globes Stars Avoided Politics

Hollywood hoisted a white flag in the culture war on Sunday. That summation of the 82nd Golden Globe Awards will undoubtedly aggravate some people in the movie capital. Us? Conceding the moral high ground to President-elect Donald J. Trump and his supporters? Never. They could point — fairly — to the movies that won prizes…

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