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Fernando Meirelles

Highest Rated: 100% Waste Land (2010)

Lowest Rated: 8% Rio, I Love You (2014)

Birthday: Nov 9, 1955

Birthplace: São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Among the prominent Latin filmmakers to have emerged during the late-20th and early-21st centuries, director Fernando Meirelles has perhaps been the most critically acclaimed of them all-no small feat when his contemporaries have included Walter Salles, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Amenabar. With his breakout feature, the Oscar-nominated "City of God" (2002), a violent and kinetic film about drug-dealing gangs in the slums of Rio de Janiero, Meirelles displayed a flair for stylized camera moves, rapid editing and gritty realism-elements that soon became trademarks. A one-time commercial director, Meirelles has taken a non-traditional approach to filmmaking, using barebones crews, non-actors in major roles and major stars as camera operators for point-of-view shots. The results have been some of the most stunning and vibrant films to have emerged from south of the Rio Grande.

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Highest-Rated Movies

100% 90% Waste Land
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98% 86% 7 Prisoners Watchlist
91% 97% City of God
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89% 83% Socrates Watchlist 88% 88% The Two Popes Watchlist
88% 79% The Pope's Toilet
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85% 67% Vazante Watchlist
83% 82% The Constant Gardener
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81% 82% The Year My Parents Went on Vacation
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80% 63% Tropicália
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Filmography

Movies TV Shows
Blue Carbon: Nature's Hidden Power 2024 Executive Producer The Outpost 2023 Producer Eduardo & Mônica 56% 2022 Associate Producer 7 Prisoners 98% 86% 2021 Producer The Great Green Wall 2019 Executive Producer The Two Popes 88% 88% 2019 Director No Name in the End Credits 2019 Actor Socrates 89% 83% 2018 Executive Producer Mulheres Alteradas 2018 Associate Producer 492 2017 Associate Producer Vazante 85% 67% 2017 Associate Producer Malasartes e o Duelo com a Morte 2017 Associate Producer Liquid Truth 2017 Associate Producer Exodus - Where I Come from Is Disappearing 2017 Producer The Water Law 2015 Executive Producer Zoom 61% 46% 2015 Executive Producer Ópera Aberta - Os Pescadores de Pérolas 2015 Director Rio, I Love You 8% 18% 2014 Director Trash 66% 70% 2014 Executive Producer Father's Chair 55% 2012 Producer Tropicália 80% 63% 2012 Executive Producer Americana 2011 Executive Producer Xingu 2011 Producer 360 19% 32% 2011 Director, Executive Producer Brasil Animado 2011 Voice
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