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Fernando Meirelles is a Brazilian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known for directing the Academy Award-nominated film City of God (2002). He has also directed The Constant Gardener (2005), Blindness (2008), 360 (2011), and The Two Popes (2019).
Meirelles was born on 9 November 1955 in São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil. He studied at the Armando Alvares Penteado Foundation (FAAP) and graduated in architecture and urban planning. He began his career as an architect and then became a film director and producer.
Meirelles has been nominated for several awards, including the Academy Award for Best Director for City of God (2002). He has also won several awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Director for The Constant Gardener (2005).
As of 2021, Fernando Meirelles's net worth is estimated to be $20 million.
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Fernando Ferreira Meirelles |
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Film director,producer,screenwriter |
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69 years old |
Zodiac Sign |
Scorpio |
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9 November 1955 |
Birthday |
9 November |
Birthplace |
São Paulo, Brazil |
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Brazil |
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Fernando Meirelles Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Fernando Meirelles's Wife?
His wife is Cecilia Teivelis (m. 1983)
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Fernando Meirelles Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Fernando Meirelles worth at the age of 69 years old? Fernando Meirelles’s income source is mostly from being a successful Film director. He is from Brazil. We have estimated
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
In 2019, Meirelles directed and produced the HBO original series Joint Venture, in which marijuana has been legalized in Brazil. The series follows the story of a young drug trafficker from São Paulo who, after the legalization of marijuana in Brazil, decides to abandon his life on crime and sell his weed legally along with an inexperienced investor partner. In the same year, he directed the drama film The Two Popes for Netflix, starring Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce.
He was one of the creative directors of the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, working on a shoestring budget equivalent to less than £5 million.
In 2007, he began shooting Blindness, a film adaptation of Nobel-prize winner José Saramago's book, Ensaio Sobre a Cegueira. The film, which was released in 2008, was the opening film of the Cannes Film Festival.
In 2004, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director for City of God. Also, at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival, the movie received four nominations: Best Director, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, and Best Film Editing.
In 1997, Meirelles read the book Paulo Lins's City of God. He decided to adapt it to film, which was done in 2002, and decided that the actors in it would be selected among the inhabitants of slums. In a final triage, from 400 children, they selected 200, with whom they worked for the shooting of the film. The filming was done with a professional crew. The film was a national and international success.
Along with four friends (Paul Morelli, Marcelo Machado, Dário Vizeu and Bob Salatini), Meirelles began his career with experimental films. Eventually, they formed an independent production company Olhar Eletrônico. Subsequently, new friends joined the group: Renato Barbiere, Agilson Araujo, Toniko and Marcelo Tas. In 1982 the company aired TV programs on current affairs, as well as the children series Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum, with 180 episodes. In addition to obtaining high ratings, they also introduced a refreshing humorous informality in news reporting.
He studied at the Architecture and Urbanism College in the University of São Paulo during the 1980s. His graduation work was done in the form of a film, instead of the traditional designs of the other students: he went to Japan and bought professional video equipment to do the job. He presented it and graduated with the minimum acceptable grade.
By the end of the 1980s, he became increasingly interested on the advertising market. In 1990, Meirelles and friends closed down Olhar Eletrônico, opening an advertising business, O2 Films. One decade was enough for him to become one of the most important and sought-after advertising producers.
His first experience with cinema was with his father, who often directed 8 mm films during his job at the university. He produced mostly western and thriller parodies, using his relatives and friends as actors. At 11, in 1967, Fernando spent a year in the United States in California, where he had contact with the hippie movement, which impressed him. At 13, with a borrowed Super 8 camera, Meirelles started producing small films, inspired by Norman McLaren's animations.
Fernando Ferreira Meirelles ( [feɾˈnɐ̃du mejˈɾɛlis] ; born 9 November 1955) is a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for co-directing the film City of God, released in 2002 in Brazil and in 2003 in the U.S. by Miramax Films, which received international critical acclaim. For his work in the film, he was eventually nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. He was also nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Director in 2005 for The Constant Gardener, which garnered the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Rachel Weisz. He also directed the 2008 adaptation of José Saramago's novel Blindness, and the 2011 film 360. In 2019 Meirelles directed and produced in Brazil the HBO original series Joint Venture and also directed The Two Popes for Netflix.