SAO PAULO (AP) — “The Secret Agent,” a Brazilian feature shortlisted for the Oscars, is all about ordinary people. It follows an unassuming scientist and widowed father who becomes a target of ...

The inaugural Best Casting category at the Oscars was not without its surprises. In a category that otherwise went entirely to English-language films, Gabriel Domingues was recognized for his work in ...

“‘The Secret Agent’ has 60-plus characters with lines – and an international star. Wagner was very important in making that whole ensemble work. Everything came together because of the main actor who ...

Gabriel Domingues is among the first-ever nominees for the Oscars’ new casting category, which is being recognized at the 98th Academy Awards ceremony on March 15. The Brazilian casting director ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A billboard promoting the Oscar-nominated film The Secret Agent is displayed outside a movie theater in Sao Paulo, Thursday, Jan.

Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho joins us to discuss his Oscar-nominated film, The Secret Agent, and the history that inspired it. The film is set in the northern Brazilian city of Recife in ...

Director Kleber Mendonça Filho and lead actor Wagner Moura discuss politics, Panavision and the past as Brazilian cinema shines at the Oscars. ‘The Secret Agent’ feels like a love letter to 1970s ...

You can almost smell the sweat in “The Secret Agent,” a stylish, slow-burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendonça Filho begins his film with the note that it ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Don’t run from your past. Revolutionize it! Taking place in 1977 during Brazil’s military dictatorship, The Secret Agent follows Armando Solimoes (Wagner Moura), a technology ...