Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix: ‘Marighella’ is the film with the most nominations; see list

The industry’s biggest accolade returns in face-to-face format, with a ceremony in Rio de Janeiro on August 10

THE Brazilian Academy of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts has just published the list of finalists of the 21st Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix. marghelladirected by Wagner Moura, it is the feature film with the most nominations, 17, including best feature, Best First Director of a Feature Film, Best Actress for Adriana Esteves e best actor for Bruno Gagliasso and Seu Jorge, who plays the title character. Secondly, it is The silence of the rainby Daniel Filho, nominated in 11 categories, including best direction.

This year’s edition marks the return to the face-to-face format, which has been held practically in the last two years due to the coronavirus pandemic, and the return to Rio de Janeiro, after three years spent in Sao Paulo. The ceremony will be held in City of Artson 10 August, broadcast live on TV by Brazil channelas well as YouTube and Instagram of Accademia. The party is directed by the visual artist Batman Zavareze and screenplay by Abrantes child.

The finalists of the Brazilian Cinema GP compete in 31 categories and were chosen by vote from the members of the Academy. “This edition will be more representative, as it will mark the face-to-face meeting of the entire sector to celebrate our audiovisual”, says Jorge Pellegrinopresident of the Brazilian Academy of Cinema and Audiovisual Arts.

The 2022 shortlist brings together more than 200 nominated professionals, 17 Brazilian feature films and 10 foreign feature films. Overall, 15 Brazilian shorts and 18 series are also in the running this year.

or Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix it is voted by professionals from the most diverse areas of the sector who are part of the Academy, an institution open to the whole class. And, like every year, the opening of the envelopes with the winners will be verified by PwC (the same one that does the Oscars).

In 2022, more than a thousand professionals were registered in the different categories, 53 fictional features (including children and animation), 33 documentary feature films, 61 short films, 40 Brazilian series, 35 international feature films, 11 Ibero-American feature films. The winners will be chosen in the second round, which begins on June 20, with a vote among the members of the Academy.

There will also be a public vote on a date to be announced shortly and which will choose the favorite film among the Brazilian fiction (drama and comedy) and documentary finalists.

Discover the complete list with the finalists of the 2022 Brazilian Grand Prix of Cinema

Best Fiction Feature Film

• 7 prisonersby Alexandre Moratto.
• Then I’m the crazy oneby Julia Rezende.
• private desertby Aly Muritiba.
• jaguar manby Vinicio Reis.
• marghellaby Wagner Moura.

Best Comedy Film

• the perfect mother-in-lawby Cris D’Amato
• Then I’m the crazy oneby Julia Rezende
• The car of the good lieby José Eduardo Belmonte
• Who will stay with Mario?by Hsu Chien Hsin
• An inseparable coupleby Sergio Goldenberg

Best Documentary Feature Film

• 8 Presidents 1 Oath – The history of a present timeby Carla Camurati
• last forestby Luiz Bolognesi
• Sunriseby Anna Muylaert and Lô Politi
• Being together, I came to confuse and not to explainby Micael Langer and Cláudio Manoel
• Moroccan cinemaby Ricardo Calil

Best Feature Film for Children

• Monica’s Gang – Lessonsby Daniel Rezende
• An almost perfect uncle 2by Pedro Antonio Paes

Honorable Mention – Animation Feature Film

• Bob Spit – We don’t like peopleby Cesare Cabral

best direction

• Alessandro Moratto of 7 prisoners
• Aly Muritiba’s private desert
• Anna Muylaert and Lô Politi of Sunrise
• Daniel Filho of The silence of the rain
• Daniel Rezende of Monica’s Gang – Lessons
• Luiz Bolognesi of The last forest

Best First Director of a Feature Film

• Camila Freitas of Floor
• Cesare Cabral for Bob Spit – We don’t like people
• Déo Cardoso of Head of Nego
• Iuli Gerbase of The pink cloud
• Madiano Marchetti of Magdalene
• Wagner Moura of marghella

Best Actress

• Adriana Esteves as Clara’s marghella
• Andreia Horta in the role of Mariana of Mariana’s secret garden
• Débora Falabella as Dani di Then I’m the crazy one
• Dira Paes in the role of Rita di Venice
• Marieta Severo as Ada di Lettuce nights

best actor

• Antonio Savoia in the role of Daniel di private desert
• Bruno Gagliasso as Lucio di marghella
• Chico Diaz in the role of Pedro of jaguar man
• Irandhir Santos as Omar of compassion
• Seu Jorge as Marighella of marghella

Best Supporting Actress

• Bárbara Paz in the role of Bárbara of Why don’t you cry?
• Bella Camero as Bella di marghella
• Carol Castro in the role of Madalena’s Venice
• Claudia Abreu in the role of Beatriz of The silence of the rain
• Zezé Motta as Francisca’s Doctor Gamma

Best Supporting Actor

• André Abujamra in the role of Nando di 7 prisoners
• Augusto Madeira as Mucio di Film about the water
• Danton Mello as Beto’s An almost perfect uncle 2
• Emilio de Mello as Dantas of jaguar man
• Humberto Carrão as Humberto’s marghella
• Luiz Carlos Vasconcelos as Pack of marghella
• Rodrigo Santoro in the role of Luca di 7 prisoners

Best Director of Photography

• Adrian Teijido, ABC of marghella
• Blue greenhouse of Monica’s Gang – Lessons
• Christian Conception of Doctor Gamma
• Felipe Reinheimer, ABC of The silence of the rain
• Gustavo Hadba, ABC of Film about the water
• Gustavo Hadba, ABC of Venice
• Luis Armando Arteaga of private desert

Best Original Screenplay

• Anna Muylaert and Lô Politi of Sunrise
• Davi Kopenawa Yanomami and Luiz Bolognesi for The last forest
• Henrique dos Santos and Aly Muritiba for private desert
• Hilton Lacerda, Anna Carolina Francisco and Dillner Gomes for compassion
• Thayná Mantesso and Alexandre Moratto for 7 prisoners

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Felipe Braga and Wagner Moura – adapted from the opera Marighella: The guerrilla that set the world on fireby Mario Magalhães – by marghella
• Lucia Murat and Tatiana Salem Levy – freely inspired by the show There is more future than pastby Clarisse Zarvos and Daniele Avila Small – by ANA. Without title
• Lusa Silvestre – inspired by the book The silence of the rainby Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza – di The silence of the rain
• Mariana Zatz and Thiago Dottori – from the opera Monica’s gangby Mauricio de Sousa and inspired by the Graphic Novel Lessons by Vitor Cafaggi and Lu Cafaggi for Monica’s Gang – Lessons
• Miguel Falabella – theatrical adaptation Veniceby Jorge Accam – by Venice

Best art direction

• Claudio Amaral Peixoto of 4×100 – Running for a Dream
• Fabíola Bonofiglio and Marcos Pedroso for private desert
• Frederico Pinto, ABC of marghella
• Mario Monteiro of The silence of the rain
• Tulé Peake by Venice
• William Valduga of 7 prisoners

best costume

• Aline Canella of 7 prisoners
• Bia Salgado’s Venice
• Kika Lopes of The silence of the rain
• Rô Nascimento by Doctor Gamma
• Veronica Giuliano of marghella

best makeup

• Adriano Manques for The silence of the rain
• Britney Federline of private desert
• Gabi Britzki of Monica’s Gang – Lessons
• Martín Macías Trujillo of marghella
• Martín Macías Trujillo of Venice

Best visual effect

• Eduardo Schaal, Guilherme Ramalho and Hugo Gurgel for Bob Spit – We don’t like people
• Emerson Bonadia of The silence of the rain
• Luiz Adriano of Venice
• Marco Prado of Monica’s Gang – Lessons
• Pedro de Lima Marques by Tales of tomorrow
• Saulo Silva for marghella

Best Fiction Editing

• Diana Vasconcello of The silence of the rain
• Diana Vasconcello of Venice
• Germano de Oliveira for 7 prisoners
• Karen Harley, EDT’s compassion
• Luca Gonzaga of marghella

Best Documentary Editing

• Eva Randolph and Yan Motta di Have a good evening
• Ide Lacreta of Zimba
• Giovanna Ventura of 8 Presidents 1 Oath – The history of a present time
• Jordana Berg’s Moroccan cinema
• Ricardo Farias for The last forest
• Vania Debs of Sunrise

Best sound

• George Saldanha, Alessandro Laroca, Eduardo Virmond Lima and Renan Deodato for marghella
• Jorge Rezende, Miriam Biderman, ABC, Ricardo Reis, ABC and Toco Cerqueira for Monica’s Gang – Lessons
• Lia Camargo and Tom Myers of 7 prisoners
• Marcel Costa, Simone Petrillo and Paulo Gama for The silence of the rain
• Valéria Ferro, Tiago Bittencourt, Daniel Turini, Fernando Henna and Sérgio Abdalla for Film about the water

Best soundtrack

• André Abujamra and Márcio Nigro for Bob Spit – We don’t like people
• Antonio Pinto of Film about the water
• Antonio Pinto of marghella
• Bern Ceppas of The silence of the rain
• Cristovão Bastos for Pixinguinha, a loving man
• Felipe Ayres of private desert

Best Brazilian Animated Series, Independent Production – Pay TV / Oct

• Angels the murderer – 2nd season (Brazil Channel)
• The Adventures of Ami – Season 1 (Globoplay)
• The dungeons – Season 2 (Nickelodeon)
• word planet – Season 1 (Discovery +)

Best Brazilian Documentary Series, Independent Production – Pay TV / Oct

• Open wings – Season 1 (YouTube originals)
• Society of fatigue – Season 1 (GNT)
• sound of the road – Season 3 (short channel)
• Transamazzonica – A road to the past – Season 1 (HBO and HBO GO)
• Your home is my home – Season 1 (HBO Mundi and HBO GO)

Best Brazilian Fiction Series, Independently Produced – Pay TV / Oct

• Star plan – Season 1 (Brazil Channel)
• Colony – Season 1 (Brazil Channel)
• Blue construction detectives – Season 15 (Gloob and Globoplay)
• Sun – Season 1 (Amazon Prime Video)
• September mornings – Season 1 (Amazon Prime Video)
• tuning – Season 2 (Netflix)

Best Brazilian fiction series, of independent production – Tv Aberta

• Terminator from the afterlife – Season 1 (SBT)
• Crazy Lab is active – Season 1 (TVE-RS)
• Under pressure – Season 4 (Globe)

Best Animated Short Film

• Aurora – The road that wanted to be a riverby Radhi Meron.
• lotby Ester Harumi Kawai.
• childhood scenesby Kimberly Palermo.
• Indigenous myths in Travessiaby Julia Vellutini and Wesley Rodrigues.
• solitudeby Tami Martins.

Best Documentary Short Film

• The hunger of Lazarusby Diego Benevides.
• Low High Astral Fireby Helena Ignez.
• It was a time of poetryby Petrus Cariry.
• single motherby Camila de Moraes.
• Yaõkwa, Image and memoryby Rita Carelli and Vincent Carelli.

Best Fiction Short Film

• The infernal machineby Francis Vogner dos Reis.
• Actby Barbara Paz.
• August skyby Jasmin Tenucci.
• shopby Nina Kopko.
• Wild patience has taken me this farby Erica Sarmet.

Best Ibero-American Film

• the night of the fire
• Spider
• wandering heart
• Emma
• A common crime

Best International Film

• Druk – One more round
• Dune
• My father
• nomadic land
• Summer Of Soul (… or, when the revolution couldn’t be televised)

Source: Terra

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