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      Walter Salles

      Walter Salles

      Highest Rated: 97% Aquarius (2016)

      Lowest Rated: 46% On the Road (2012)

      Birthday: Apr 12, 1956

      Birthplace: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

      For a director more interested in following his creative intuition than calculating his career, Walter Salles won several awards and international acclaim which helped him earn a reputation as one of Brazil's leading filmmakers. After starting his career directing documentaries in the 1980s, Salles transitioned to narrative filmmaking with "A Grande Arte" (1991) and earned international attention for the socially conscious "Terra Estrangeira" (1995). In collaboration with Robert Redford's Sundance Institute, he received Oscar consideration with "Central Station" (1998) and enhanced his reputation as a striking filmmaker with "Behind the Sun" (2001). But it was the widely hailed road movie, "The Motorcycle Diaries" (2004) that allowed Salles to gain a foothold in Hollywood proper, leading to directing the remake of the Japanese horror thriller "Dark Water" (2005) and the long-developed adaptation of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road" (2012). As he continued making films in his native Brazil, Salles had broken through in the States, where he continued rising in prominence while making creatively challenging films.

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      THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (aka DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA), Walter Salles, Alberto Granado, 2004, (c) Focus Features THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (aka DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA), Walter Salles, Alberto Granado, 2004, (c) Focus Features THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, (aka DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA), Gael Garcia Bernal, Alberto Granado, Alberto Granado Jr., Walter Salles, Rodrigo de la Serna, 2004, (c) Focus Features THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, (aka DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA), Gael Garcia Bernal, Alberto Granado, Alberto Granado Jr., Walter Salles, Rodrigo de la Serna, 2004, (c) Focus Features DARK WATER, Ariel Gade, Jennifer Connelly, director Walter Salles rehearsing on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, Ariel Gade, Jennifer Connelly, director Walter Salles rehearsing on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, Jennifer Connelly, director Walter Salles, Camryn Manheim on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, Jennifer Connelly, director Walter Salles, Camryn Manheim on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, director Walter Salles, Jennifer Connelly on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, director Walter Salles, Jennifer Connelly on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, Jennifer Connelly, director Walter Salles on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, Jennifer Connelly, director Walter Salles on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, Ariel Gade, Jennifer Connelly, director Walter Salles rehearsing on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, Ariel Gade, Jennifer Connelly, director Walter Salles rehearsing on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, Producer Bill Mechanic, executuve producer Ashley Kramer, director Waller Salles on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, Producer Bill Mechanic, executuve producer Ashley Kramer, director Waller Salles on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, director Walter Salles, Pete Postlewaite, John C. Reilly on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone DARK WATER, director Walter Salles, Pete Postlewaite, John C. Reilly on set, 2005, (c) Touchstone THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (aka DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA), Mia Maestro, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Walter Salles, 2004, (c) Focus Features THE MOTORCYCLE DIARIES (aka DIARIOS DE MOTOCICLETA), Mia Maestro, Gael Garcia Bernal, Rodrigo de la Serna, Walter Salles, 2004, (c) Focus Features PARIS, JE T'AIME, segment: Loin du 16eme, aka Far from the 16th arrondissement, directed by Walter Salles, director Walter Salles, Catalina Sandina Moreno, on set, 2006. ©First Look Pictures PARIS, JE T'AIME, segment: Loin du 16eme, aka Far from the 16th arrondissement, directed by Walter Salles, director Walter Salles, Catalina Sandina Moreno, on set, 2006. ©First Look Pictures CENTRAL STATION, Walter Salles, Fernanda Montenegro, 1998, (c)Sony Pictures CENTRAL STATION, Walter Salles, Fernanda Montenegro, 1998, (c)Sony Pictures
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      Filmography

      Movies

      Credit
      83% No Score Yet The Movie Teller Screenwriter - 2023
      88% No Score Yet Mariner of the Mountains Producer - 2021
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Homing Producer - 2018
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Unremember Producer - 2018
      No Score Yet No Score Yet Where Has the Time Gone Director - 2017
      97% 78% Aquarius Co-Producer $285.9K 2016
      83% No Score Yet Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang Director,
      Writer       		- 2014
      46% 34% On the Road Director $717.8K 2012
      No Score Yet 37% Quincas Berro d'Água Producer - 2010
      No Score Yet 55% Café de los Maestros Executive Producer - 2008
      77% 72% Linha de Passe Director - 2008
      75% 61% Love for Sale Producer $12.0K 2006
      86% 84% Paris, je t'aime Director,
      Writer       		$4.9M 2006
      60% 57% Lower City Producer $130.6K 2005
      47% 28% Dark Water Director $25.5M 2005
      83% 92% The Motorcycle Diaries Director $16.8M 2004
      91% 97% City of God Executive Producer $7.6M 2002
      60% 81% Madame Satã Producer $198.2K 2002
      74% 88% Behind the Sun Director,
      Writer       		$64.2K 2001
      94% 95% Central Station Director,
      Writer,
      Producer       		$6.2M 1998
      No Score Yet 52% Midnight Director,
      Writer       		- 1998
      No Score Yet 90% Foreign Land Director,
      Screenwriter,
      Film Editing       		- 1995
      No Score Yet 50% Exposure Director $23.3K 1991