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Central Station
1998
· Movie
· 110 min
A
MEANRANK
84/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #219
- IMDb #374
- Rotten Tomatoes #132
- Metacritic #259
- Letterboxd #78
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #554
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- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #104
- Metacritic Critics #696
- Metacritic Audience #46
- Criticker #460
- Douban #194
- Kinopoisk #1017
- AlloCiné #1006
- Trakt #11
Every rating
65–95
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Criticker on 65, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 95.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A bitter, retired schoolteacher writes letters for illiterate people at Rio de Janeiro's central station. She meets a young boy whose mother is killed just after writing a letter to his estranged father. Reluctantly, she agrees to accompany the boy on a journey across Brazil to find his father. The arduous trip through the country's hinterlands forces a connection between the jaded woman and the hopeful child.
Details
- Director
- Walter Salles
- Studio
- MACT Productions, VideoFilmes, RioFilme
- Released
- 3 April 1998
- Country
- Brazil, France
- Language
- Portuguese
- Runtime
- 110 min
- Budget
- $2.9M
- Box office
- $5.6M
- Awards
- 19 wins, 7 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 26 →4 major awards won · 19 wins from 26 nominations across 17 ceremonies
| 56th Golden Globe Awards 1999 | Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Winner |
| 48th Berlin International Film Festival 1998 | Golden Bear | Central Station | Winner |
| 48th Berlin International Film Festival 1998 | Silver Bear for Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Winner |
| Sundance Film Festival 1998 | Best Screenplay | João Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos Bernstein | Winner |
| 14th Independent Spirit Awards 1999 | Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Nominee |
| 24th César Awards 1999 | Best Foreign Film | Central Station | Nominee |
| 56th Golden Globe Awards 1999 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Fernanda Montenegro | Nominee |
| 71st Academy Awards 1999 | Best Foreign Language Film | Brazil | Nominee |
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48th Berlin International Film Festival
2 nominations, 2 won
| Golden Bear | Central Station | Winner |
| Silver Bear for Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Winner |
56th Golden Globe Awards
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Winner |
| Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama | Fernanda Montenegro | Nominee |
Sundance Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Screenplay | João Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos Bernstein | Winner |
71st Academy Awards
2 nominations
| Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Nominee |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Brazil | Nominee |
14th Independent Spirit Awards
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Nominee |
24th César Awards
1 nomination
| Best Foreign Film | Central Station | Nominee |
São Paulo Association of Art Critics
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Winner |
| Best Director | Walter Salles | Winner |
| Best Film | Central Station | Winner |
Havana Film Festival
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Winner |
| Best Film | Central Station | Winner |
National Board of Review
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Winner |
| Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Winner |
Golden Satellite Awards
3 nominations, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Winner |
| Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama | Fernanda Montenegro | Nominee |
| Best Original Screenplay | João Emanuel Carneiro and Marcos Bernstein | Nominee |
52nd British Academy Film Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Film Not in the English Language | Central Station | Winner |
Association of Film Critics Spain
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Winner |
Association of Film Critics in Poland
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Winner |
Association of Film Critics of Rio de Janeiro
1 nomination, 1 won
| Film of the Year | Central Station | Winner |
Los Angeles Film Critics Association
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Actress | Fernanda Montenegro | Winner |
National Association of Italian Critic
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Language Film | Central Station | Winner |
San Sebastián International Film Festival
1 nomination, 1 won
| Audience Award | Central Station | Winner |