List of Academy Awards nominations for Brazilian films
The following is a list of the Academy Award nominations for Brazilian films. To this date, the only winner is Orfeu Negro (1959). The film, however, was submitted by the French government and thus France was credited as the award recipient. Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), a Brazilian-American co-production, and City of God (2002) are the films that earned most nominations in a single year, with four each. Fernanda Montenegro holds the title as the only Brazilian nominated to an acting category for her role in Central do Brasil. She was also the first Latin American nominated to the Academy Award for Best Actress, paving the way to Salma Hayek and Catalina Sandino Moreno. Boy and the World, animated film directed by Alê Abreu, was nominated for Best Animated Feature in 2016. Also, the documentary Waste Land that takes place in Brazil was nominated in 2011 and the song Real in Rio composed by two Brazilian authors was nominated in 2012.