Fernando Meirelles Articles

Nicole Kidman in Baz Luhrmann's DGA- (but not Oscar-) nominated Moulin Rouge! DGA Awards vs. Academy Awards 1990s: Odd People Out Barbra Streisand, Steven Spielberg, Robert Altman 2000 DGA Cameron Crowe, Almost Famous AMPAS Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot DGA/AMPAS Steven Soderbergh, Traffic Ang Lee, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Ridley Scott, Gladiator Steven Soderbergh, Erin Brockovich   2001 DGA Baz Luhrmann, Moulin Rouge! Christopher Nolan, Memento [...]

Mathieu Demy, Geraldine Chaplin, Americano Rachel Weisz, Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Todd Solondz, Carey Mulligan: Toronto 2011 360 — Fernando Meirelles, World Premiere — Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler’s classic La Ronde, in 360, director Fernando Meirelles and screenwriter Peter Morgan combine a modern and dynamic roundelay of original stories into one, linking characters: from different cities and countries in a vivid, suspenseful and deeply moving [...]

Best Foreign Language Films: Biggest Oscar Snubs #4a "City of God is a potent and unexpected mixture of authenticity and flash. It's both the slickly made first feature [sic]* from Brazil's most successful director of commercials and a vigorous piece of social realism that's unmistakably trading on something actual," wrote Kenneth Turan in the Los Angeles Times. Roger Ebert's Chicago Sun-Times review praised City for [...]

Sylvester Stallone isn't done with Brazil, yet — though he sure wishes he were. About ten days ago, Stallone joked at Comic-Con that while filming The Expendables in Rio (in spring 2009) he discovered that in Brazil you could kill people and blow everything up, and locals would say "thank you" and offer you a monkey. That led to a widespread Brazilian-led Twitter offensive and [...]