List of Brazilian Academy Award winners and nominees

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.

Fernanda Montenegro became the first Portuguese-speaking actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 1998.

Best Picture

Best Picture
Year	Film Title	Status	Milestone / Notes
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

Best Director
Year	Director	Film	Status	Milestone
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

Best Actress
Year	Actress	Film Title	Status	Milestone / Notes
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.

Fernando Meirelles was the second Brazilian director to be nominated for an Academy Award in 2004.

Best Art Direction

Best Art Direction
Year	Name	Film Title	Status	Milestone / Notes
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

Best Cinematography
Year	Cinematographer	Film Title	Status	Milestone / Notes
2003	César Charlone	City of God (Cidade de Deus)	Nominated[7][14][1]	César Charlone is an Uruguayan-born Brazilian director.

Best Documentary Feature

Best Documentary Feature
Year	Film	Director(s)	Status	Milestone / Notes
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

Best Film Editing
Year	Editor	Film Title	Status
2003	Daniel Rezende	City of God (Cidade de Deus)	Nominated[7][14][1]

Best International Feature Film

See also: List of Brazilian submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Best International Feature Film
Year	Film Title	Director	Status	Milestone / Notes
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

Best Live Action Short Film
Year	Film Title	Director	Status	Milestone / Notes
2001	Uma História de Futebol	Paulo Machline	Nominated[1]	First Brazilian Live Action Short Film nominated in this category.

Best Animated Short Film

Best Animated Short Film
Year	Film Title	Director	Status	Milestone / Notes
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

Best Animated Feature
Year	Film Title	Director	Status	Milestone
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

Best Original Song
Year	Nominee(s)	Film Title	Song	Status	Milestone
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

Best Adapted Screenplay
Year	Writer	Film Title	Status
2003	Bráulio Mantovani	City of God (Cidade de Deus)	Nominated[7]

Best Documentary - Short Subject

Best Documentary - Short Subject
Year	Film Title	Director	Status	Notes
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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