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City of God
2002
· Movie
· 130 min
A
MEANRANK
87/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #45
- IMDb #27
- Google retired #148
- Rotten Tomatoes #151
- Metacritic #221
- Letterboxd #8
+9 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #891
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #20
- Metacritic Critics #746
- Metacritic Audience #19
- Criticker #25
- Douban #67
- Kinopoisk #290
- AlloCiné #211
- Trakt #23
Every rating
77–97
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 77, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 97.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →In the violent, poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro, a young man finds himself surrounded by crime, drugs, and gang warfare. He dreams of becoming a photographer as a way to escape his environment, while his childhood friend embraces a life of crime and rises to become a powerful and ruthless drug lord.
Details
- Directors
- Fernando Meirelles, Kátia Lund
- Writer
- Bráulio Mantovani
- Based on
- City of God by Paulo Lins
- Released
- 30 August 2002
- Country
- Brazil, France, Germany
- Language
- Portuguese
- Runtime
- 130 min
- Rated
- R
- Budget
- $3.3M
- Box office
- $30.6M
- Awards
- 9 wins, 17 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 26 →9 wins from 26 nominations across 23 ceremonies
| Audience Award 2002 | — | Winner | |
| Best Actor 2002 | — | Leandro Firmino | Nominee |
| Best Actress 2002 | — | Roberta Rodrigues | Nominee |
| Best Adapted Screenplay 2002 | — | Bráulio Mantovani | Nominee |
| Best Art Direction 2002 | — | Tulé Peak | Nominee |
| Best Cinematography 2002 | — | César Charlone | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design 2002 | — | Bia Salgado, Inês Salgado | Nominee |
| Best Director 2002 | — | Fernando Meirelles | Nominee |
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Audience Award
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Winner |
Best Editing
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Daniel Rezende | Winner |
Best Film
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Winner |
Best Foreign Independent Film
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Winner |
Best Independent Foreign Film
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Winner |
Best Sound
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Guilherme Ayrosa, Paulo Ricardo Nunes, Alessandro Laroca, Alejandro Quevedo, Carlos Honc, Roland Thai, Rudy Pi, Adam Sawelson | Winner |
Best Sound Editing in a Foreign Film
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Martín Hernández, Roland N. Thai, Alessandro Laroca | Winner |
Best Theatrical Film
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Winner |
Visions Award – Special Citation
1 nomination, 1 won
| — | Winner |
Best Foreign Language Film
2 nominations
| — | Nominee | |
| — | Fernando Meirelles | Nominee |
Best Supporting Actor
2 nominations
| — | Douglas Silva | Nominee |
| — | Jonathan Haagensen | Nominee |
Best Supporting Actress
2 nominations
| — | Graziela Moretto | Nominee |
| — | Alice Braga | Nominee |
Best Actor
1 nomination
| — | Leandro Firmino | Nominee |
Best Actress
1 nomination
| — | Roberta Rodrigues | Nominee |
Best Adapted Screenplay
1 nomination
| — | Bráulio Mantovani | Nominee |
Best Art Direction
1 nomination
| — | Tulé Peak | Nominee |
Best Cinematography
1 nomination
| — | César Charlone | Nominee |
Best Costume Design
1 nomination
| — | Bia Salgado, Inês Salgado | Nominee |
Best Director
1 nomination
| — | Fernando Meirelles | Nominee |
Best Film Editing
1 nomination
| — | Daniel Rezende | Nominee |
Best Foreign Film
1 nomination
| — | Andrea Barata Ribeiro, Mauricio Andrade Ramos, Fernando Meirelles | Nominee |
Best Makeup
1 nomination
| — | Anna Van Steen | Nominee |
Best Soundtrack
1 nomination
| — | Antonio Pinto, Ed Côrtes | Nominee |