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Why Fernanda Montenegro not win best Actress


Her performance in Central do Brasil was the best in 1998

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Why?

3 words : THE WEINSTEIN BROTHERS

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Fernanda told us at the time why - because she was not a pretty young blond. I agree that her performance in Central Station was amazing.

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Maybe not enough Oscar voters saw the movie. If it was a foreign-language film, that would have hurt her chances even more.

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