Overview
- Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva phoned Wagner Moura and director Kleber Mendonça Filho to congratulate them on the film’s success.
- Wagner Moura is the first Brazilian nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards, following Best Actor honors at Cannes and a Golden Globe win.
- The Secret Agent has four Oscar nominations, which include the Academy’s new Achievement in Casting category.
- Set in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship, the film features Moura as a professor who goes into hiding after a clash with a regime official.
- Mendonça Filho condemned the Critics Choice decision to present its international film award on the red carpet rather than during the ceremony.