A list of Brazilian Academy Award winners and nominees appears below. The first Brazilian to be nominated for an Academy Award was Ary Barroso, one of Música Popular Brasileira's greatest composers, in 1945.[1] As of 2023, only one Brazilian-born has been awarded: production designer Luciana Arrighi won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction for Howards End in 1993.[2]
This list is current as of the 95th Academy Awards ceremony held on 12 March 2023.
![A color photograph of a man sitting on a sofa, with two golden statuettes on the table in front of him.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Fernanda_Montenegro_em_2015_cropped.jpg/150px-Fernanda_Montenegro_em_2015_cropped.jpg)
Best Picture
[edit]Best Picture | ||||
Year | Film Title | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1986 | Kiss of the Spider Woman (O Beijo da Mulher Aranha) | Nominated | Co-produced by Brazil and the United States. First Brazilian production to be nominated for Best Picture. The Academy nominated American producer David Weisman.[3] | |
2018 | Call Me by Your Name | Nominated | Co-produced by Italy, France, Brazil and the United States.[4][5] The Academy nominated director Luca Guadagnino (Italian), and producers Peter Spears (American), Emilie Georges (French) and Marco Morabito (Italian).[6] |
Best Director
[edit]Best Director | |||||
Year | Director | Film | Status | Milestone | |
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1986 | Héctor Babenco | Kiss of the Spider Woman (O Beijo da Mulher Aranha) | Nominated[1] | Babenco is an Argentine-born Brazilian director. | |
2003 | Fernando Meirelles | City of God (Cidade de Deus) | Nominated[7][1] | First Brazilian-born director nominated in this category. |
Best Actress – Leading Role
[edit]Best Actress | ||||
Year | Actress | Film Title | Status | Milestone / Notes |
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1999 | Fernanda Montenegro | Central Station (Central do Brasil) | Nominated[8][9] | First Latin American to be nominated for Best Actress and first actress to be nominated for a Portuguese-speaking role. |
![A color photograph of a man sitting on a sofa, with two golden statuettes on the table in front of him.](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/Fernando_Meirelles.jpg/150px-Fernando_Meirelles.jpg)
Best Art Direction
[edit]Best Art Direction | |||||
Year | Name | Film Title | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1993 | Luciana Arrighi | Howards End | Won[10] | Luciana Arrighi is a Brazilian-born Australian-Italian production designer. First Brazilian-born to win an Oscar.[11][2] | |
1994 | The Remains of the Day | Nominated[12] | |||
2000 | Anna and the King | Nominated[13] |
Best Cinematography
[edit]Best Cinematography | |||||
Year | Cinematographer | Film Title | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2003 | César Charlone | City of God (Cidade de Deus) | Nominated[7][14][1] | César Charlone is an Uruguayan-born Brazilian director. |
Best Documentary Feature
[edit]Best Documentary Feature | |||||
Year | Film | Director(s) | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1979 | Raoni | Luiz Carlos Saldanha, Jean-Pierre Dutilleux | Nominated[1] | French-Belgian-Brazilian co-production. First Brazilian nomination in this category. Saldanha co-wrote and co-directed with French-born Dutilleux. The Academy nominated director Dutilleux and producers Barry Hugh Williams and Michel Gast.[15] | |
1982 | El Salvador: Another Vietnam | Tetê Vasconcellos, Glenn Silber | Nominated[1] | Vasconcellos was Brazil's first female director nominated for an Oscar. Silber is a US-born director. | |
2011 | Waste Land (Lixo Extraordinário) | Lucy Walker, João Jardim | Nominated[16][1] | British-Brazilian production co-directed by Brazilian director João Jardim. The Academy only nominated British director Lucy Walker and British producer Angus Aynsley.[17] | |
2015 | The Salt of the Earth (O Sal da Terra) | Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, Wim Wenders | Nominated[18] | Salgado is a French-born Brazilian director. The film is a Brazilian co-production with France and Germany. | |
2020 | The Edge of Democracy (Democracia em Vertigem) | Petra Costa | Nominated[19][20] |
Best Film Editing
[edit]Best Film Editing | ||||
Year | Editor | Film Title | Status | |
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2003 | Daniel Rezende | City of God (Cidade de Deus) | Nominated[7][14][1] |
Best International Feature Film
[edit]Best International Feature Film | |||||
Year | Film Title | Director | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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1963 | Keeper of Promises (O Pagador de Promessas) | Anselmo Duarte | Nominated[1] | First Brazilian production to receive a nomination at the Academy Awards. | |
1996 | O Quatrilho | Fábio Barreto | Nominated[1] | ||
1998 | Four Days in September (O Que É Isso Companheiro?) |
Bruno Barreto | Nominated[1] | ||
1999 | Central Station (Central do Brasil) | Walter Salles | Nominated[1] | As of 2023, this was the last Brazilian nomination in this category. |
Best Live Action Short Film
[edit]Best Live Action Short Film | |||||
Year | Film Title | Director | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2001 | Uma História de Futebol | Paulo Machline | Nominated[1] | First Brazilian Live Action Short Film nominated in this category. |
Best Animated Short Film
[edit]Best Animated Short Film | |||||
Year | Film Title | Director | Status | Milestone / Notes | |
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2004 | Gone Nutty | Carlos Saldanha | Nominated[1] | First animated short film directed by a Latin-American director to be nominated in this category. Saldanha was nominated with John C. Donkin. |
Best Animated Feature
[edit]Best Animated Feature | |||||
Year | Film Title | Director | Status | Milestone | |
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2016 | Boy and the World (O Menino e o Mundo) | Alê Abreu | Nominated[21] | First Brazilian animated production nominated in this category. | |
2018 | Ferdinand | Carlos Saldanha | Nominated[6][22] | Saldanha is a Brazilian director, but the film is an American production. |
Note: Ice Age was nominated for this category in 2003. The film was an American production co-directed by American director Chris Wedge and Brazilian director Carlos Saldanha. However, the Academy only nominated Wedge.[23]
Best Original Song
[edit]Best Original Song | |||||
Year | Nominee(s) | Film Title | Song | Status | Milestone |
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1945 | Ary Barroso | Brazil | "Rio de Janeiro" | Nominated[1] | First Brazilian and Latin-American songwriter to be nominated. |
2012 | Sergio Mendes, Carlinhos Brown | Rio | "Real in Rio" | Nominated[24][25] | First two Brazilian songwriters to be nominated together. Brown was the first black Latin songwriter to be nominated. |
Best Writing – Adapted Screenplay
[edit]Best Adapted Screenplay | ||||
Year | Writer | Film Title | Status | |
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2003 | Bráulio Mantovani | City of God (Cidade de Deus) | Nominated[7] |
Best Documentary - Short Subject
[edit]Best Documentary - Short Subject | |||||
Year | Film Title | Director | Status | Notes | |
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2022 | Lead Me Home | Pedro Kos, Jon Shenk | Nominated[26] | Pedro Kos is a Brazilian director,[27] Jon Shenk is a US-born director, and the film is an American production. |
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