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SONY PICTURES CLASSICS’ BEST PICTURE NOMINEE “I’M STILL HERE” PROVES IT’S NOT GOING ANYWHERE
Film has earned $23M worldwide to date and continues to expand
I’M STILL HERE won “Best Ibero- American Film” at 39th Goya Awards
NEW YORK (February 10, 2025) – Sony Pictures Classics announces the successful continued expansion this weekend of I’M STILL HERE grossing over $1M domestically, after expanding to over 700 screens, bringing the cumulative domestic gross to over $2M and $23M worldwide. The film continues to expand throughout the US this weekend.
Internationally, I’M STILL HERE continues to see strong numbers after expanding to Mexico, Chile Venezuela and Bolivia. As previously reported, I’M STILL HERE became the highest-grossing Brazilian film post-pandemic while also inspiring a cultural reckoning within the country, as well as topping charts in Portugal, France and Italy. The film will continue to roll out over the next month in Columbia (2/13), Argentina, Peru, Uruguay, Dom Rep, And Ecuador (2/20), Romania (2/21), Slovakia (2/27) and Poland and Turkey (2/8).
The good news didn’t stop there. The film won the “Best Ibero- American Film” at the 2025 39th Goya Awards and took home the “Rotterdam Audience Award” at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) this weekend.
I’M STILL HERE, Brazil’s official submission for the 97th Academy Awards, received three Oscar nominations, including “Best Picture,” “Best Actress in a Leading Role” for Fernanda Torres, and “Best International Feature Film,” in addition to a Golden Globes Win for Torres for “Best Actress in a Motion Picture (Drama).”
The film which also stars Selton Mello and Fernanda Montenegro, is based on Marcelo Rubens Paiva's biographical book and tells the true story that helped reconstruct an important part of Brazil’s hidden history. Set in 1971 Brazil, the country faces the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. Eunice Paiva, a mother of five children, is forced to reinvent herself after her family suffers a violent and arbitrary act by the government. It reunites Sony Pictures Classics with Salles, 26 years after their successful collaboration on CENTRAL STATION, which garnered numerous awards and nominations. In a full circle moment, Torres, with her nomination for I’M STILL HERE, has become the second Brazilian actress ever nominated for the Best Actress Oscar, following in the footsteps of her mother and now co-star Fernanda Montenegro, who earned the nomination for CENTRAL STATION in 1999.
ABOUT SONY PICTURES CLASSICS
Michael Barker and Tom Bernard serve as co-presidents of Sony Pictures Classics—an autonomous division of Sony Pictures Entertainment they founded with Marcie Bloom in January 1992—which distributes, produces, and acquires independent films from around the world. Barker and Bernard have released prestigious films that have won 41 Academy Awards® (37 of those at Sony Pictures Classics) and have garnered 190 Academy Award® nominations (164 at Sony Pictures Classics) including Best Picture nominations for I’M STILL HERE, THE FATHER, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, WHIPLASH, AMOUR, MIDNIGHT IN PARIS, AN EDUCATION, CAPOTE, HOWARDS END, and CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON.
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