Fernanda Torres Follows in Her Mother's Footsteps in Emotional Surprise 2025 Golden Globes Win: 'Art Can Endure'

Fernanda Torres is this year’s Golden Globe Award winner for best dramatic movie actress.

For her work in I’m Still Here, Torres, 59, accepted the trophy for best performance by a leading actress in a drama from this year's Cecil B. DeMille Award recipient, Viola Davis.

Thanking supporters onstage at The Beverly Hilton on Sunday Jan. 5, she began, "My God, I didn’t prepare anything, because I was glad already."

The Brazilian actress also dedicated the award to her fellow-actress mother Fernanda Montenegro, now 95, who "was here 25 years ago" nominated for her role in 1998's Central Station, which also earned her an Academy Award nod.

"And this is proof that art can endure through life, even in difficult moments," Torres added of her win, saying that I'm Still Here is "a film that helped us to think how to survive in tough times."

Also nominated in the category were Pamela Anderson for The Last Showgirl, Angelina Jolie for Maria, Nicole Kidman for Babygirl, Tilda Swinton for The Room Next Door and Kate Winslet for Lee.

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Anderson, 57, received one of the two Globe nominations for The Last Showgirl, the other being Miley Cyrus’ original song “Beautiful That Way.”

The first-time Globe nominee leads Gia Coppola’s film as a Las Vegas showgirl opposite Jamie Lee Curtis, Dave Bautista and more.

Maria, Pablo Larraín’s biopic about the tragic final days of opera star Maria Callas, brings Jolie, 49, her seventh Golden Globe nomination.

The Oscar winner has three Globe trophies to her name thanks to 1997's George Wallace, 1998's Gia and 1999's Girl, Interrupted.

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Kidman, 57, is on a roll with a whopping 17 Globe nominations and five wins.

The Oscar winner is the sole nod for writer-director Halina Reijn’s erotic thriller Babygirl, about a CEO engaging in a dangerous affair with a younger employee, played by Harris Dickinson.

Kidman’s acclaimed performance has also earned recognition from the Gotham Awards, National Board of Review and several film festivals this awards season.

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Capping off a busy 2024 is Swinton, 64, who starred in Problemista, The End and The Room Next Door, earning praise and awards for the latter.

Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar's English-language debut, costarring Julianne Moore, also took home the Golden Lion from the Venice Film Festival.

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Torres is a newcomer to the Golden Globes — and may also be so for American audiences.

An award winner in her native country for decades of powerful performances, she leads the Walter Salles-directed I'm Still Here, about Brazil's military dictatorship in 1971.

The film was also nominated for a Globe for best non-English language motion picture.

Winslet, 49, is no stranger to the Golden Globes, considering her 14 nominations and 4 wins.

The British Oscar winner leads Lee, an Ellen Kuras-directed biopic about war photographer Lee Miller, as both producer and star.

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