Petra Costa Biography

Awards

• 2009Audience Award-Short Film: winner
• 2009Special Jury Award-Short Film: winner
• 2009ASCINE - RJ Award-: winner
• 2009Première Brazil-Best Short Film (Melhor Curta-Metragem): winner
• 2009Première Brazil-Short Film: winner
• 2009New Talent Award-Best Film: winner
• 2009Achievement Award Espaço Unibanco-: winner
• 2009Marlim Azul Trophy-Best Editing: winner
• 2010Cinema Brazil Grand Prize-Best Short Film - Documentary (Melhor Curta-Metragem Documentário): nominated
• 2012Audience Award-Best Documentary: winner
• 2012Jury Award-Best Directing - Documentary: winner
• 2013Abraccine Award-Best Brazilian Feature Film (Melhor Longa Brasileiro): nominated
• 2013Grand Coral - First Prize-Documentary: winner
• 2013Best International Documentary-: nominated
• 2013LABRFF Award-Best Documentary: winner
• 2013Audience Award-Visions: nominated
• 2013Special Mention-International Competition: winner
• 2013Big Stamp-International Competition: nominated
• 2014Nordic Dox Award-: winner
• 2014Audience Award-Best Documentary (Melhor Documentário): winner
• 2014Cinema Brazil Grand Prize-Best Documentary (Melhor Documentário): nominated
• 2014Premio Guarani-Best Documentary: winner
• 2014Premio Guarani-Best Director: nominated
• 2014Audience Award-Best Documentary (Melhor Documentário): winner
• 2015Special Mention-Best Documentary: winner
• 2015Prix Nouvelles Vagues Acuitis-: nominated
• 2015Junior Jury Award-Filmmakers of the Present Competition: winner
• 2015Golden Leopard - Filmmakers of the Present-: nominated
• 2015Première Brazil-Best Documentary: winner
• 2016Cinema Brazil Grand Prize-Best Foreign-Language Film (Melhor Filme Estrangeiro): nominated
• 2016Grand Prize City of Lisbon-: nominated
• 2016Punto de Vista Grand Prize-: nominated
• 2016Fiction Non Fiction Award-: winner
• 2016Premio Guarani-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2016Audience Choice Award-Best Narrative Feature: winner
• 2017CinEuphoria-Best Documentary - National Competition: nominated
• 2019Abraccine Award-Best Brazilian Feature Film (Melhor Longa Brasileiro): nominated
• 2019CPH:DOX Award-DOX:AWARD: nominated
• 2019Critics' Choice Documentary Award-Best Narration: nominated
• 2019Gotham Independent Film Award-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2019Audience Award-: nominated
• 2019Creative Recognition Award-Best Writing: nominated
• 2019IDA Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2019IDA Award-Best Feature: nominated
• 2019Tim Hetherington Award-: nominated
• 2019Grand Jury Prize-World Cinema - Documentary: nominated
• 2020Oscar-Best Documentary Feature: nominated
• 2020Peabody Award-Documentary: winner
• 2020Premio Platino-Best Documentary (Mejor Película Documental): winner
• 2020Premio Guarani-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2020APCA Trophy-Best Documentary (Melhor Documentário): winner
• 2020Platino Award-Best Documentary: winner
• 2024Maysles Brothers Award-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2024Coral Award-Best Documentary Feature Film: winner
• 2024Bruce Sinofsky Prize - Special Jury Prize-Special Jury Prize: winner
• 2024Bruce Sinofsky Prize for Documentary Feature-: nominated
• 2024David Carr Award for Truth in Non-Fiction Filmmaking-: winner
• 2024Bronze Horse-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2025Special Jury Award-Documentary Feature: winner
• 2025Audience Choice Award-Documentary Feature: nominated
• 2025Critics' Choice Documentary Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2025Critics' Choice Documentary Award-Best Narration: nominated
• 2025IDA Award-Best Feature Documentary: nominated
• 2025IDA Award-Best Director: nominated
• 2025IDA Award-Best Production: winner
• 2025IDA Award-Best Writing: winner
• 2025Knight Documentary Achievement Award-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2026BAFTA Film Award-Best Documentary: nominated
• 2026Cinema Eye Honors Award-Outstanding Achievement in Production: nominated
• 2026APCA Trophy-Best Documentary (Melhor Documentário): nominated