The feature film by director Kleber Mendonça Filho, starring Wagner Moura, will compete for a César, French cinema’s highest award, in the Best Foreign Film category. The nomination comes a day after The Secret Agent was announced as a contender in two categories at the BAFTAs, in the UK.

At the Césars, the Brazilian production competes with Sirāt, One Battle After Another, Black Dog, and Sentimental Value. The ceremony will take place on February 26 in Paris.

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The Secret Agent is nominated in four categories at the 2026 Oscars. Kleber Mendonça’s production competes in the categories of Best Picture, Best International Feature Film, Best Casting, and Best Actor (Wagner Moura).

The award ceremony will take place on March 15.

This year, the film has won two Golden Globe awards – Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor in a Drama.

The British Academy Film Awards – or BAFTAs – unveiled Tuesday (Jan. 27) the nominees for its various categories, and Brazil won three nominations. The film The Secret Agent and the documentary Apocalypse in the Tropics are in the running. The awards ceremony will be held on February 22.

The Secret Agent, a film by Kleber Mendonça Filho, was nominated in the categories of Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Original Screenplay. Apocalypse in the Tropics, by Petra Costa and Alessandra Orofino, was nominated for Best Documentary. Brazilian Adolpho Veloso was also nominated in the Best Cinematography category for the film Train Dreams.

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In the Best Film Not in the English Language category, The Secret Agent competes with It Was Just an Accident (France), Sentimental Value (Norway), Sirāt (Spain), and The Voice of Hind Rajab (Tunisia). Under Original Screenplay, the competitors are I Swear, Marty Supreme, Sentimental Value, and Sinners.

In the Documentary category, Apocalypse in the Tropics competes with 2000 Meters To Andriivka, Mr Nobody Against Putin, Cover-Up, and The Perfect Neighbor.

The Secret Agent became one of the main contenders for the world’s biggest film award after its excellent performance at the Golden Globes in January, when it won Best Foreign Language Film and Best Actor in a Drama for Wagner Moura.

*Trainee under the supervision of Odair Braz Junior