Fernanda Montenegro

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Fernanda Montenegro
Atriz Fernanda Montenegro.jpg
Fernanda Montenegro in 2003
Born Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Torres
(1929-10-16) October 16, 1929 (age 94)
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Years active 1955–present
Spouse(s) Fernando Torres (1954–2008; widowed)
Website Official website

Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Torres ONM (born October 16, 1929) better known by her stage name Fernanda Montenegro, is a Brazilian stage, television and film actress, mostly recognized for her leading role in Central Station, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress, becoming the first and only Brazilian actress to ever be nominated in the category.[1] Also for this work, she was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Motion Picture Drama and won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

In 1999, she was honored with the medal Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit, "for the recognition of the outstanding work in the Brazilian performing arts", delivered by then President Fernando Henrique Cardoso. It is the highest award that a civilian can receive from the Presidency of the Republic.[2]

In 2013, she won the International Emmy Award for Best Actress, in the special television film Sweet Mother.[3] She is commonly revered as one of Brazil's finest actresses and referred to as "The First Lady of Brazilian Theater" and "The First Lady of Brazilian Television".

Biography

Personal life

Montenegro was born Arlette Pinheiro Esteves Silva in Rio de Janeiro, of Portuguese and Italian descent, from the island of Sardinia.[4] Regarding the adoption of a stage name, the actress has stated that she chose Fernanda simply because of its sonority, whilst Montenegro was the surname of her family's doctor. Montenegro was married to Fernando Torres from 1954 until his death in 2008. They had two children: Fernanda Torres who won the Best Actress prize in Cannes Film Festival and film director Cláudio Torres.

Career

Stage and television career

The actress Fernanda Montenegro in a dramatic reading workshop in Brasil Telecom's headquarters in 2003.

In late 1940s, Montenegro was adapting famous theatre plays to radio. She began her artistic life in the theatre with the play Alegres Canções nas Montanhas (Happy Songs on the Mountain) in 1950. Among her mates was Fernando Torres, who would soon become her husband. In the next years she worked with other acclaimed actors like Sérgio Britto, Cacilda Becker, Nathalia Timberg, Cláudio Correa e Castro and Ítalo Rossi. In 1951 she become one of the TV's pioneers in Brazil, working in Rio de Janeiro's TV Tupi – the second TV station of South America. She played in several plays on TV between 1951 and 1970.

Moving to São Paulo in the early 1960s, Montenegro initially worked solely on theatre. In 1963 she take her first role in a telenovela (soap opera), "Pouco Amor Não é Amor". A succession of notable telenovela's roles followed, mainly her performances in the ensemble piece A Muralha (1968), based on the novel by celebrated Brazilian author Dinah Silveira de Queiroz, and Sangue do Meu Sangue (1969), a memorable melodrama engraved in Brazilian pop culture, whose stellar cast featured not only Montenegro, but other theatre's stars like Sérgio Britto, Cláudio Correa e Castro, Francisco Cuoco, Nicette Bruno and Tônia Carrero.

Throughout the 1970s Montenegro moved away from television, rather focusing on her theatre and film career. Still, a televised performance in Euripides’ classic play Medea, in 1973, was lauded by reviewers. It was only in the very late 1970s that Montenegro would once again engage in a substantial television effort, with Cara a Cara (1979), for which she won the Best Actress in Television Award by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics.

The 1980s marked Montenegro's return to television in full force. She appeared in telenovelas such as Baila Comigo (1981), Brilhante (1982) and Cambalacho (1986), and struck a massive hit with Guerra dos Sexos (1983), a light-hearted comedy about the constant bickering men and women experience in different stages of romantic relationships. In the latter, Montenegro once again left a significant impression in Brazilian pop culture, starring in a now-immortalized food fight scene, opposite Paulo Autran. Throughout this decade, Montenegro won her second and third Best Actress in Television Awards, by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics, for her work in Brilhante and Guerra dos Sexos.

The early 1990s proved once again to be a time of success in television for Montenegro, as she took on roles in two other smash hits, the popular primetime telenovelas Rainha da Sucata (1990) and O Dono do Mundo (1991), both Brazilian pop culture favorites. Years later, she once again gained artistic distinction, appearing on the critically acclaimed mini-series "Incidente em Antares" (1994), an adaptation of the book by one of Brazilian Literature's greatest novelists, Érico Veríssimo.

In 1997, Montenegro's string of critical and audience triumphs came to an abrupt halt as her portrayal of the lead role in the telenovela Zazá, a much anticipated return to comedy, couldn’t live up to either reviewers' or the viewing public's expectations. After a series of changes in attempt to salvage it from absolute failure, still facing overall rejection, the show was cut short and quickly wrapped. Despite its being a considerable letdown, "Zazá" was soon eclipsed by the monumental success Montenegro's film career witnessed with the release of Central Station.

In spite of a successful minor appearance as the Madonna in the mini-series O Auto da Compadecida (1999), later re-cut into a theatrical film (internationally known as A Dog's Will), Montenegro's television career struggled in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In 2001, another attempt was made in telenovela comedy with As Filhas da Mãe, which covered the backstage of Brazilian Fashion Industry. Short of a celebrated scene, early on, which featured Montenegro's character winning an Oscar, the telenovela was, once more, a flop. Lackluster ratings and overall negative reviews led to its swift cancellation. Nevertheless, Montenegro still managed to be nominated as Best Actress in the Contigo Awards, which laureates excellence in Brazilian telenovelas.[5]

The following year, Montenegro shifted towards primetime drama, opting for a minor role in the first stage of the telenovela Esperança (2002). Although Montenegro herself earned positive reviews, "Esperança" was a major failure, generally panned by critics and despised by audiences, setting a record for an all-time low in ratings for a primetime telenovela televised by TV Globo, the broadcasting channel of Brazil's most powerful telecommunications conglomerate. Due to Montenegro's continued success in film, as well as her status as one of the most cherished artists and personalities in Brazil, these disappointments tended to be minimized, often regarded as minor blots in an extended résumé of significant successes.

Montenegro returned to television's good graces in a supporting role as the exploitive stepmother of the lead character in the ensemble piece mini-series Hoje é Dia de Maria (2005), a coming-of-age tale set in a fantasy world, positively reviewed for its inventiveness, its stunning art direction and overall production design, as well as its acting. Montenegro scored her second nomination as Best Actress in the Contigo Awards, while the mini-series garnered two nominations for the International Emmy Awards and won the Grand Prize of the Critics of the São Paulo Association of Art Critics Award.[6][7]

The following year, Montenegro returned to primetime drama, taking on the female lead role in Belíssima (2006), which also offered a backstage view to Brazilian Fashion Industry, only in a much more earnest and cruel perspective than in her previous work As Filhas da Mãe (2001). Starring as the shrewd calculating villainess, Bia Falcão, Montenegro was applauded by critics and audiences alike, delivering a solid, sophisticated performance while handling an unapologetic, uncharismatic character, whose story twist was pivotal to the development of the main plot. For this portrayal, Montenegro finally won her first Contigo Award for Best Actress, and also her fourth Best Actress in Television Award by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics.[8]

Following her streak of well-received roles, Montenegro returned to television in 2008, taking a supporting role, as Dona Iraci, in the critically and publicly acclaimed primetime mini-Series Queridos Amigos, based on the book "Aos Amigos", by Portuguese novelist Maria Adelaide Amaral, an ensemble piece that tells a fictional reconstitution of personal experiences of Amaral and a group of close friends, set during a moment of political turbulance in the Brazilian transition from a military dictatorship to a democratic regime.

In 2010, participated in the telenovela Passione where she played Beth Gouveia.[9]

In 2012, Montenegro starred in the latest episode of the miniseries As Brasileiras as an actress without much talent named Mary Torres. Determined to make the success they have always dreamed, Mary ends vontando television to revive his career.[10]

In the telefilm Sweet Mother, displayed as year-end special in 2012, she plays Dona Picucha, an 85-year-old widow who confronts life with good humor and who knows how to take advantage of all the difficulties she face. “Sweet Mother has one foot in reality and the other in fantasy. The reality of a country of youths where there are more and more old people and many doubts about how to deal with them. The fantasy of the comedy, the music, the poetry which become a believable reality. Picucha is 85 years old and still does not know what she wants to be when she grows up. I don’t either,” Fernanda said.[11] For her performance she won the International Emmy Award for Best Actress.[12]

In 2013, at age 85 years, Fernanda Montenegro returns to television in the remake of Saramandaia.[13]

In 2014, she lived again Dona Picucha in the series Sweet Mother. In the same year the actress had participated in the cast of the telenovela Babilônia, written by Gilberto Braga, in the role of Teresa, a homosexual lawyer who maintains a relationship with the character Nathalia Timberg, Estela.

Film career

The actress Fernanda Montenegro is awarded with the medal Euvaldo Lodi, celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Confederação Nacional da Indústria (CNI).

Montenegro's film career was launched in the mid-1960s. Her debut came in 1965, as Zulmira, in the movie A Falecida (internationally known as The Death and released in the U.S. as The Deceased). The film was a cinematic adaptation of the play, by the greatest of Brazilian dramatists, Nélson Rodrigues, and earned its female lead, amongst positive reviews, her first distinction as a film actress, as Montenegro won the Candango Trophy as Best Actress in the Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema.

Throughout the 1970s, Montenegro was featured in a series of other movies, but none seemed to match the degree of acclaim as her debut, until, in 1978, she starred as Elvira Barata, opposite Paulo Gracindo, in Arnaldo Jabor's Tudo Bem (internationally known as Everything's Alright). The movie earned positive reviews, eventually winning the top prize at the Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema, taking the Candango Trophy for Best Film. Although receiving considerable appraisal, Montenegro's performance missed any major awards.

As her next big screen role, in 1981, Montenegro starred as Romana in Eles Não Usam Black-Tie (internationally known as They Don't Wear Black Tie), based on a play by the late Gianfrancesco Guarnieri, who was also her co-star in the movie. The movie proved to be a big domestic hit, earning Guarnieri the Award as Best Actor in Film by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics, and, most significantly, a movie of international notice, landing major awards in film festivals all around the world, including the Grand Coral First Prize in the Havana Film Festival, as well as the Grand Jury Special Prize and the FIPRESCI Prize in the Venice Film Festival.

Focusing in television during the 1980s, Montenegro's film exposure was limited throughout the remaining of the decade, but she still participated in a minor role as Carlota, a religious practitioner of Umbanda (a syncretic belief system very popular in Brazil), in 1985's A Hora da Estrela (internationally known as Hour of the Star), a movie that was lauded by critics both domestically – snatching six Candango Trophies in the Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema, including Best Film, Director, Actor (José Dumont) and Actress (Marcélia Cartaxo) and, internationally, earning the Grand Coral First Prize in the Havana Film Festival, as well as three major awards in the Berlin Film Festival: the International Confederation of Art House Cinemas Award, the OCIC Award and the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress (awarded to fellow co-star Marcélia Cartaxo).

Montenegro's film career hiatus would only be broken in 1994, emerging in a segment titled "Samba do Grande Amor" of the film Veja Esta Canção (internationally known as Rio's Love Song), which garnered its director Carlos "Cacá" Diegues a Best Director Award in the Havana Film Festival. She then moved, in 1997, to a small appearance in O Que é Isso, Companheiro? (internationally known as Four Days in September), which starred American actor Alan Arkin and chronicled the kidnapping of American consul Charles Burke Elbrick by rebellious political activists who opposed the military dictatorship in Brazil, based on the memoirs of Brazilian politician Fernando Gabeira. The movie had significant international repercussion, welcoming nominations to the Golden Bear in the Berlin International Film Festival and to the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[14]

Central do Brasil

In 1998, Montenegro delivered the performance of a career, starring in Central do Brasil (internationally known as Central Station), as Dora. The movie fared well domestically, winning four awards by the São Paulo Association of Art Critics (including Best Film, Director and Actress in Film – Montenegro's first, after winning thrice for her television career), and achieved international acclaim unprecedented for any Brazilian film. Central Station debuted to undisputed praise in the Berlin Film Festival, eventually earning three of its major awards: The Golden Berlin Bear for Best Film, the Special Prize by the Ecumenical Jury and the Silver Berlin Bear for Best Actress for Montenegro.

Successively, many other honors were bestowed upon the film, as it won five awards at the Havana Film Festival, including the Special Jury Prize and the Best Actress Award to Montenegro, as well as several other prizes for Best Foreign Film, including a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, awards by the Argentine Film Critics Association, the National Board of Review, the San Sebastián International Film Festival, the Spain Film Critics Association, the Spain Cinema Writers Circle and the Satellite Awards, among others. Other high profile Best Foreign Film nominations included the César Award, the Independent Spirit Award, and an Academy Award nomination as Best Film in a Foreign Language.[15][16]

Montenegro herself was honored on numerous occasions, earning additional Best Actress awards from the Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival, the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, among others. She was also nominated for a Golden Satellite Award, for a Golden Globe and for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, a feat which gave Montenegro the distinction of being the first (Brazilian and) Latin American actress ever to be bestowed with such an honor by the Academy. She is also the only person nominated so far for a performance in the Portuguese language.[17][18]

The last decade

Montenegro's follow-up to Central Station marked her return to the work of Nélson Rodrigues, as she took on a supporting role in 1999's "Gêmeas", directed by her own son-in-law, Andrucha Waddington, and starred by her own daughter, Fernanda Torres. The film fared relatively well domestically, earning Torres a Candango Trophy for Best Actress in the Brasília Festival of Brazilian Cinema and a nomination for Best Actress in the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize, but failed to gain any substantial recognition internationally. In 2000, the celebrated television mini-series "O Auto da Compadecida", in which Montenegro appeared as the Holy Mary, was re-cut into a film of same title (internationally known as A Dog's Will) and released to movie theaters to significantly appreciative domestic appraisal. It eventually won four awards at the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize, including Best Director, Best Actor (Matheus Nachtergaele) and Best Screenplay (surprisingly, it lost the Best Picture award), but also failed to launch a noteworthy international career.

In 2004, Montenegro's film career was once again in full force. She returned to the Berlin Film Festival with O Outro Lado da Rua (internationally known as The Other Side of the Street), which landed stellar reviews and garnered the International Confederation of Art House Cinemas Award. Montenegro herself was also honored, winning the Horizons Award in the San Sebastian International Film Festival and the Best Actress Award in the Tribeca Film Festival. Domestically, the film also fared well, landing six nominations to the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize, with Montenegro winning the Best Actress award.[19][20]

The same year, she also took a supporting role in Redentor (internationally known as Redeemer), directed by her son, Cláudio Torres, and co-starred by her usband Fernando Torres.[21] The movie proved to be a smash hit domestically, earning rave reviews and scoring nine nominations in the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize (winning one for Best Director), but failed to produce an expressive splash internationally. Still in 2004, Montenegro once again landed a supporting role, playing Leocádia Prestes, mother of Brazilian communist leader Luiz Carlos Prestes, and mother-in-law of Jewish-German socialist revolutionary Olga Benário in the biopic Olga, based on the book by Brazilian biographer Fernando Morais. The movie was received with mixed reviews by critics, often praised for its technical merits (mainly its cinematography, make-up art, costume design and art direction) and panned for its narrative and directing choices. It still fared strongly in the box-office, though, and scored nine nominations in the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize, earning three technical awards (Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design and Best Make-Up). "Olga" was also chosen, eventually, as the film to represent Brazil in the Oscar race in pursuit of a nomination for Best Foreign Language Film, but it did not make it to the final five nominees.

Fernanda Montenegro during presentation of the play Viver sem tempos mortos in 2012.

The following year of 2005 saw Montenegro's return to lead, as she took on three different roles in the feminist epic saga Casa de Areia (internationally known as The House of Sand), opposite her own daughter, Fernanda Torres, with whom she alternated the same roles.[22] The movie had a strong display domestically, earning rave reviews and special distinction to Montenegro's performance. It garnered 12 nominations to the Cinema Brazil Grand Prize (including Best Actress for Montenegro), earning three technical awards (the same as "Olga").[23] The movie displayed the potential to develop an international career, as it earned two nominations to the Satellite Awards and earned an Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize in the Sundance Film Festival, but its campaign was crippled when Brazilian critics turned their support to Cinema, Aspirinas e Urubus (internationally known as Cinema, Aspirins and Vultures), choosing it to represent Brazil in the Oscar race.

Late 2006, Montenegro garnered attention for leading a movement of film artists and investors who firmly opposed a Congressional Bill that reduced federal incentives in cultural programmes, reallocating such funds to public investments in the fields of sports and leisure. On December 14, 2006, Montenegro directly addressed the Brazilian Senate, strongly criticizing the legislation and famously asserting "Culture is, above all, a social need. It is not a frivolity." For such deeds, as well as her overall career in film, Montenegro earned, in 2007, in the Rio de Janeiro International Film Festival, an Honorary Award, as a Latin American Character of the Culture. Also in 2007, Montenegro played Tránsito Ariza, in Love in the Time of Cholera, an adaptation of the novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature, Gabriel García Marquez. Albeit a minor role, it marked Montenegro's first performance in an English language spoken feature. The movie debuted to mainly poor reviews, but none focused on Montenegro's acting.[citation needed]

In 2012, starred in the short film A Dama do Estácio directed by Edward Ades[24] and in 2013 participated in the film cast Time and the Wind an adaptation of the novel by Erico Verissimo with Thiago Lacerda, Marjorie Estiano and Cléo Pires.[25]

Filmography

Fernanda in 2014

Television

Telenovelas / Series /Miniseries
Year Title Role Note Awards
1964 Vitória Vitória
1966 Redenção Lisa
1968 A Muralha Cândida Olinto Troféu Imprensa for Best Actress
1969 Sangue Do Meu Sangue Júlia
1973 Medeia Medeia
1979 Cara a Cara Íngrid
1981 Brilhante Chica Newman
1981 Baila Comigo Sílvia Toledo Troféu Imprensa for Best Actress[26]
APCA Award for Best Actress in Television
1983 Guerra dos Sexos Charlô Troféu Imprensa for Best Actress
APCA Award for Best Actress in Television
1986 Cambalacho Naná Troféu Imprensa for Best Actress
1987 Sassaricando Herself
1990 Riacho Doce Grandma Manuela
1990 Rainha da Sucata Salomé
1992 O Dono do Mundo Olga Portela Troféu Imprensa for Best Actress
1993 O Mapa da Mina Madalena
1993 Renascer Jacutinga
1994 Incidente em Antares Quitéria Campolargo
1997 Zazá Zazá
2001 As Filhas da Mãe Lulu de Luxemburgo
2002 Pastores da Noite Tibéria
2002 Esperança Luísa
2003 Celebridade Herself
2004 Um Só Coração Herself
2005 Hoje É Dia de Maria The stepmother
2005 Belíssima Bia Falcão APCA Award for Best Actress in Television[27]
2009 Som & Fúria Herself
2010 Passione Bete Gouveia
2012 As Brasileiras Maria
2012 Sweet Mother Dona Picucha International Emmy Award for Best Actress[28]
2013 Saramandaia Dona Cândida Rosado
2014 Doce de Mãe Dona Picucha (Maria Izabel de Souza) Nominated–International Emmy Award for Best Actress
2015 Babilônia Teresa Petrucceli

Film

Year Title Role Note
1965 The Deceased Zulmira Candango Trophy for Best Actress
1970 Pecado Mortal Fernanda
Família Anita
1971 A Vida de Jesus Cristo Samaritana
1978 Tudo Bem Elvira Barata Taormina Film Fest Award for Best Actress
1981 They Don't Wear Black Tie Romana
1985 Hour of the Star Madame Carlota
1986 Trancado por Dentro Ivette
1988 Fogo e Paixão Castle Queen by Isay Weinfeld and Márcio Kogan
1997 Four Days in September Dona Margarida
1998 Central Station Dora Teixeira Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival Award for Best Actress
Havana Film Festival Award for Best Actress
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress
National Board of Review Award for Best Actress
National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress (3rd place)
New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress (2nd place)
São Paulo Association of Art Critics Award for Best Actress
Silver Bear for Best Actress
Nominated–Academy Award for Best Actress
Nominated–Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Nominated–Satellite Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama
Treason Woman at the bar directed by Cláudio Torres, José Henrique Fonseca and Arthur Fontes
1999 Gêmeas Mother based on the book by Nelson Rodrigues, directed by Andrucha Waddington
2000 O Auto da Compadecida Virgin Mary
2004 Redeemer Dona Isaura
Olga Leocádia Prestes
The Other Side of the Street Regina Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro for Best Actress
San Sebastián International Film Festival Horizons Award
Tribeca Film Festival Award for Best Actress in a Narrative Feature Film.[29]
2005 The House of Sand D. Maria / Áurea Guadalajara International Film Festival Award for Best Actress
Nominated-Grande Prêmio do Cinema Brasileiro for Best Actress
2007 Love in the Time of Cholera Tránsito Ariza
2012 A Dama do Estácio[30] Zulmira
2013 Time and the Wind Bibiana Terra
Boa Sorte[31][32] In production
A Igreja do Diabo[33]
A Primeira Missa[34] In production
2014 Rio, Eu Te Amo[35] Dona Fulana
Do Fundo do Lago Escuro[36] In production
Infância In production

Theater

Year Title Role Note
1954 O Canto da Cotovia by Jean Anouilh – Directed by Gianni Ratto
1955 A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau – Directed by Gianni Ratto
1955 A Moratória de Jorge de Andrade – Directed by Gianni Ratto
1956 Eurydice by Jean Anouilh – Directed by Gianni Ratto
1958 Vestir os Nus by Luigi Pirandello – Directed by Alberto D'Aversa
1959 O Mambembe by Arthur Azevedo and José Piza. Directed by Gianni Ratto
1960 Mrs. Warren's Profession by George Bernard Shaw – Directed by Gianni Ratto
1960 A Flea in Her Ear by Georges Feydeau – Directed by Gianni Ratto
1961 O Beijo no Asfalto by Nelson Rodrigues – Directed by Fernando Torres
1963 Maria Maria by Jean Kerr – Directed by Adolfo Celi
1966 O Homem do Princípio ao Fim by Millôr Fernandes – Directed by Fernando Torres
1967 A Volta ao Lar by Harold Pinter – Directed by Fernando Torres
1970 Oh! Que Belos Dias by Samuel Beckett – Directed by Ivan de Albuquerque
1971 Computa, Computador, Computa by Millor Fernandes – Directed by Carlos Kroeber
1972 Seria Cômico ... Se Não Fosse Trágico by Friedrich Dürrenmatt – Directed by Celso Nunes
1976 A Mais Sólida Mansão
1977 É ..., De Millôr Fernandes Directed by Paulo José
1982 As Lágrimas Amargas de Petra von Kant by Rainer Werner Fassbinder – Directed by Celso Nunes
1986 Fedra by Jean Racine – Directed by Augusto Boal
1987 Dona Doida based on works by Adélia Prado – Directed by Naum Alves de Souza
1993 The Flash and Crash Days by Gerald Thomas – Directed by Gerald Thomas
1995/96 Happy Days by Samuel Beckett – Directed by Jacqueline Laurence
1998 Da Gaivota from the play The Seagull, by Anton Chekhov – Directed by Daniela Thomas
2009 Viver em tempos mortos[37]

Awards and nominations

Year Organisation Category Work Country Result
1965 Festival de Brasília Best Actress
The Deceased
 Brazil Won
1978 Taormina Film Fest Best Actress
All Fine
 Italy Won
1998 Academy Awards Best Actress
Central Station
 United States Nominated
Golden Globes Best Actress – Motion Picture, Drama  United States Nominated
Silver Bear Best Actress  Germany Won
Ft. Lauderdale International Film Festival Award Best Actress  United States Won
Havana Film Festival Best Actress  Cuba Won
Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award Best Actress  United States Won
National Board of Review Awards Best Actress  United States Won
National Society of Film Critics Awards Best Actress  United States Nominated
New York Film Critics Award Best Actress  United States Nominated
São Paulo Association of Art Critics Award Best Actress  Brazil Won
Satellite Award Best Actress - Motion Picture Drama  United States Nominated
2004 Cinema of Brazil Grand Prize Best Actress
The Other Side of The Street
 Brazil Won
San Sebastián International Film Festival Horizons Award  Spain Won
Tribeca Film Festival Best Actress  United States Won
2005 Guadalajara Film Festival Best Actress
The House of Sand
 Mexico Won
Cinema of Brazil Grand Prize Best Actress  Brazil Nominated
2013 International Emmy Best Performance by an Actress
Sweet Mother
 United States Won

Honours

National Order of Merit - Grand Cross (Brazil) - ribbon bar.png – Grã-Cruz da Ordem Nacional do Mérito: Awarded by President Fernando Henrique Cardoso in April 12, 1999.[38]

Quotes

  • "My English is not good. My soul is better".
  • "I'm the Old Lady from Ipanema".
  • "In Brazil, I have a career. In America, I have an accent."
  • "Culture is, above all, a social need. It is not a frivolity."

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  38. Fernanda Montenegro recebe a Ordem Nacional do Mérito

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