List of Brazilian Academy Award winners and nominees

This is a list of Brazilian Academy Awards winners and nominees, totaling twenty-two nominations in twelve different categories.

The first Brazilian to be nominated for an Academy Award was Ary Barroso, one of Música Popular Brasileira's greatest composers, in 1945.

This list is current as of the 97th Academy Awards ceremony which will take place on March 2, 2025.

This section presents a list of films in which at least one of the nominees in the category is Brazilian.

(Central do Brasil) (Ainda Estou Aqui) (O Sal da Terra) (Democracia em Vertigem) (Uma História de Futebol) (Cidade de Deus) This section presents a list of all films that involve Brazilian co-productions and Brazilian nominees for the Oscars.

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Fernando Meirelles was the third Brazilian director to be nominated for an Academy Award in 2004 .
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Fernanda Montenegro became the first Portuguese-speaking actress to be nominated for an Academy Award in 1998 .