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This Brazilian Oscar contender has the best acting you’ll see in 2026

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Wagner Moura is Oscar-worthy in Kleber Mendonça Filho’s bold excavation of Brazil at the time of its military dictatorship

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He won the Best Actor Award in Cannes and the Golden Globe, and is the first Brazilian actor candidate for the Oscar. All thanks to 'The Secret Agent', in which he plays a character very similar to him:a kind of invisible hero Read

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Even without competing for the Best Ator award in Buffa 2026, Wagner Moura can be strengthened by this Sunday's ceremony (22). Currently referred to as the second favorite to Oscar in the category by GoldDerby, the protagonist of “The Secret Agent” depends on what happens in London to gain strength in the final network of the season. Read More Oscar 2026 reveals the first group of speakers; confirms Who was Robert Duvall, Oscar's winner who died…

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It was at the 2025 Cannes Film Festival, one of the most prestigious film events in the world, that the Brazilian film *The Secret Agent* received a standing ovation for more than 10 minutes. The film achieved global prominence and four nominations for the 2026 Oscars. View this post on Instagram You don't need to be an expert on the subject to recognize that this scenario has never been conventional for Brazilian cinema. In almost 100 years of…

Today the Brazilian film O Agent Secreto arrives at the Spanish billboard. The title, in fact, gives cat for hare, because it is not a tape of spies, even if it resorts to their weapons. It seems difficult to qualify a work, magna for many critics, like The Secret Agent, a movie-river with a thousand and a tributaries, and the actor Wagner Moura (who played the Colombian Pablo Escobar in Narcos) as owner and lord of the function. With him opens …

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El Mundo broke the news in Madrid, Spain on Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
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