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Fernando Meirelles

Brazilian film director (born 1955)

2.33body-of-work score · ranked #459 of 2631 directors · 2 films in our library

A director's score is the sum of their films' composite canon scores — methodology.

Born
September 11, 1955 · São Paulo
Nationality
Brazil
Work
film director, film producer, screenwriter, director
Reference
Wikipedia · Wikidata
Portrait of Fernando Meirelles
File:Fernando Meirelles - Österreichpremiere 360 Wiener Volkstheater 01.jpg: Manfred Werner (Tsui) derivative work: Minerva97 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Films in our library, ranked

Ranked by composite canon score across 20+ authoritative lists, awards and polls — our ordering, with every placement citing its evidence on the film's page.

  1. 1
    City of GodCidade de DeusMust-See #340

    2002 · Brazil / France · drama, crime

    Letterboxd Top 250 #10 · Kinema Junpo Best Ten (International) 2003 #6 · Ebert's annual top 10 2002 #2

    2.138 citations
  2. 2
    The Constant Gardener

    2005 · United Kingdom / Germany / United States · drama, thriller

    Film Comment year-end poll 2005 #32

    0.201 citation

Complete filmography

All 9 directorial credits recorded on Wikidata, in chronological order; films in our library link to their canon-score page.