Walter Salles

Known for DirectingBorn 1956-04-12 (age 70)Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Walter Moreira Salles Júnior (/ˈsɑːlɪs/; Brazilian Portuguese: [ˈvawteʁ ˈsalis]; born 12 April 1956) is a Brazilian filmmaker. A major figure of the Resumption Cinema in Brazil, Salles is widely regarded as one of the greatest Brazilian filmmakers of all time. His accolades include an Academy Award accepted for Best International Film, three Cannes Film Festival prizes, three Venice Film Festival prizes, two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Bear and a Golden Globe. He first became internationally known for his film Central Station (1998), which earned two Academy Awards nominations, for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actress for Fernanda Montenegro, winning a Golden Globe and a BAFTA for Best Foreign Language Film as well as the Golden Bear at the 48th Berlin International Film Festival. His subsequent works include Behind the Sun (2001), The Motorcycle Diaries (2004), Dark Water (2005) and On the Road (2012). At the 97th Academy Awards, his critically acclaimed film I'm Still Here (2024) received a rare double nomination for Best Picture and Best International Feature; it won the latter, becoming the first Brazilian film to win an Academy Award in any category. Heir to Itaú Unibanco, with a fortune valued at US$4.5 billion (R$24.26 billion), Salles is the third richest filmmaker in the world. Description above from the Wikipedia article Walter Salles, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.Read more

Movies & web series

Antonio Carlos Jobim: An All-Star Tribute

Eye of the Storm

Castanha e Caju Contra o Encouraçado Titanic

Manas

City of God

Beneath the Surface: The Making of 'Dark Water'

Vozes de Paracatu e Bento

I'm Still Here

Central Station

Critic

Aquarius

The Secret Agent

At the Edge of the Earth

The Motorcycle Diaries

Café de los maestros

Behind the Sun

Love for Sale

Socorro Nobre

Noah's Ark

New World

Homing

Foreign Land

Mariner of the Mountains

Narcissus Off Duty

Jia Zhangke, A Guy from Fenyang

The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell

Adão ou Somos Todos Filhos da Terra

Marisa Monte: MM ao Vivo

Madame Satã

El bonaerense

Paris Je T'aime

The Movie Teller

Linha de Passe

Traveling with Che Guevara

To Each His Own Cinema

Lower City

The Oscars

Unremember

Lion's Den

From Afar

A Linguagem do Cinema

Hermanas

Midnight

On the Road

Dark Water

Where Has Time Gone?

Born and Bred

The Freitas Brothers