The Brazilian Academy of Cinema announced the full list of nominees to the award, previously known as the Brazilian Cinema Grand Prix
I’m still hereOscar winner for best international film, leads the dispute for Great Othello Award for Brazilian Cinema with 16 indications. The Brazilian Academy of Cinema announced on Monday, June 16, the full list of nominees to the award, previously known as the Brazilian Cinema Award.
The feature Walter Salles (Central do Brasil) appears among the finalists of all the main categories of the award, including better film, direction (Walter Salles), Actress (FERNANDA TORRES, Foreign land), Actor (Selton Mello, The Auto da Compadecida), Supporting actress (Barbara Luz, Unicorn and Valentina Herszage, The Polacas) and supporting actor (Humberto Carrão, Aquarius).
The nominations come after the controversy that the film would be considered Hors Concours and would be out of competition. The academy even considered a special trophy for the “set of the work” to I’m still hereHowever, the producers refused the tribute, stating that this would hurt the professionals who worked in the film and could have their effort recognized in the competitive categories. Without the tribute, the film joined the race for all the main statuettes. Check out the full list of nominees:
Best Movie
- I’m still here
- Baby
- White kasa
- Malu
- MOTEL DESTINATION
Best Comedy Movie
- Cancer with Ascendant in Virgin
- Stomach 2 – The Powerful Chef
- White kasa
- The Auto da Compadecida 2
- The day I met you
Best Documentary Long
- 3 Obás de Shango
- Asexyability
- FERNANDA YOUNG-Figure me to control
- Luiz Melodia – In the heart of Brazil
- Milton Bituca Nascimento
- Othelo, the great
Best Animation feature
- Abá and his band
- Noah’s ark
- Clarice’s Dream
- Motherboard
- Teca e Tuti: a night in the library
Best Children’s Long
- CHICO BENTO AND THE GOIABEIRA MARDRY
- Sleeping Princess
- All for a pop star 2
Best Ibero-American feature
- El Jockey (Argentina)
- Estimated Señores (Colombia)
- Great Tour (Portugal)
- La infiltrated (Spain)
- Dirty (Mexico)
Best direction
- Andrucha waddington, Victory
- Érico Rassi, West again
- Karim aïnouz, MOTEL DESTINATION
- MARCELO CAETANO, Baby
- Walter Salles, I’m still here
Best Long First Direction
- Alessandra Dorgan, Luiz Melodia – In the heart of Brazil
- Dira Paes, Pasárga
- João Cândido Zacharias, The inheritance
- Lucas H. Rossi dos Santos, Othelo, the great
- Pedro Freire, Malu
Best actress
- Andrea Beltrão, Avenida Beira-Mar
- Dira Paes, Pasárga
- FERNANDA TORRES, I’m still here
- Grace PassôThe day I met you
- Novaes Yara, Malu
Best actor
- Ângelo Antônio, West again
- Caio Blat, Large sertão
- Fabio Assunção, MOTEL DESTINATION
- João Pedro Mariano, Baby
- Matheus Nachtergaele, The Auto da Compadecida 2
- Selton Mello, I’m still here
Best Supporting Actress
- Barbara Luz, I’m still here
- Carol Duarte, Malu
- Juliana Carneiro da Cunha, Malu
- Linn da Quebrada, Victory
- Valentina Herszage, I’m still here
Best Supporting Actor
- Antonio Pitanga, West again
- Attila Bee, Malu
- BABU SANTANA, West again
- Humberto Carrão, I’m still here
- Ricardo Teodoro, Baby
Best Director of Photography
- Adrian Teijido, I’m still here
- André Cavalheira, West again
- Gustavo Hadba, Large sertão
- Gustavo Hadba, The Auto da Compadecida 2
- Hélène Louvart, MOTEL DESTINATION
- Joana Luz and Pedro Sotero, Baby
- Mauro Pinheiro Jr., Malu
Best Original Screenplay
- André Novais Oliveira, The day I met you
- Érico Rassi, West again
- Luciano Vidigal, White kasa
- MARCELO CAETANO and Gabriel Domingues, Baby
- Pedro Freire, Malu
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Bia Lessa, The devil on the street in the middle of RedeMunho
- GUEL ARRAES and Jorge Furtado, Large sertão
- MARCELO GOMES, Maria Camargo and Gustavo Campos, Portrait of a certain East
- MURILO HAUSER and Heitor Lorega, I’m still here
- Sérgio Machado, Noah’s ark
Best Art Direction
- Camila Moussallem, The Polacas
- Carlos Conti, I’m still here
- Carol Tanajura, West again
- Elsa Romero, Malu
- Marcos Pedroso, MOTEL DESTINATION
Best Costume
- Aline Canella, The Battle of Maria Antônia Street
- Cao Albuquerque and East Diana, Large sertão
- Claudia Kopke, I’m still here
- Emilia Duncan, The Auto da Compadecida 2
- Gabriela Campos, Baby
- Kika Lopes and Ananda Frazão,MOTEL DESTINATION
Best makeup
- ANA PIERONIWest again
- Marcos Freire, Malu
- Marisa Amenta, I’m still here
- Rosemary Paiva, Large sertão
- Rosemary Paiva, The Auto da Compadecida 2
Best Assembly
- Affonso Gonçalves, I’m still here
- André Finotti, 3 Obás de Shango
- Cristina Amaral, City; field
- FABIAN REMY, Baby
- Fabio Jordão, The Auto da Compadecida 2
- MARILIA MORAES, Malu
Better visual effect
- Ailton Piuí and João Paulo Geraldo, Portrait of a certain East
- Claudio Peralta, I’m still here
- Claudio Peralta, The Auto da Compadecida 2
- Claudio Peralta, Victory
- Eduardo Schaal, Guilherme Ramalho and Hugo Gurgel, Large sertão
- Guilherme Ramalho, Hugo Gurgel and François Puren, CHICO BENTO AND THE GOIABEIRA MARDRY
Best sound
- CHICO BENTO AND THE GOIABEIRA MARDRY
- Noah’s ark
- My blood boils for you
- Victory
- I’m still here
- Malu
- MOTEL DESTINATION
Best soundtrack
- MOTEL DESTINATION
- The Business Women’s Club
- The Battle of Maria Antônia Street
- Victory
- Large sertão
- West again
- I’m still here
Best Brazilian Fiction Series
- City of God: the struggle does not
- Impure
- The others
- The Four from Candelaria
- Senna
Best Brazilian Documentary Series
- Bateau Mouche – The Saw of Justice
- Black lines
- Park Maniac – The Unsdated History
- Romário – The guy
- Long live the cinema! A story of the São Paulo Show
Best Animation Series
- Astronaut
- Cosmos, the cosmonaut
- Gildo
- Jorel’s brother
- Lino – My father is a beast
- Luna’s show!
- Grandma Tatá
Best actress in series
- Adriana Esteves, The others
- ALICE WEGMANN, Re -shit hits
- Andréia Horta, City of God: the struggle does not
- Letícia Colin, The others
- ROBERTA RODRIGUES, City of God: the struggle does not
Best actor
- Andrei Marques, The Four from Candelaria
- Eduardo Sterblitch, The others
- Gabriel Leone, Sun
- Gabriel Leone, Senna
- Matheus Nachtergaele, Chabadabada
Best short
- And your body is beautiful
- Helena de Guaratiba
- The outside is inside
- When here
- Zager
Best Documentary Short
- The night of the bottles
- I was assistant to Eduardo Coutinho
- Sea
- Gold
- You
- Vollúpyya
Best Animation Short
- The girl and the pot
- Me and the ox, the ox and me
- I am a German shepherd
- Today I only come back tomorrow
- Monster boy
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Source: Rollingstone

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