“deal in some way with the problem of sin and the possibility of redemption, and in this sense they all derive ultimately from the same source.”
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Manoel de Oliveira
Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about World War I. In 1931, he completed his first film Douro, Faina Fluvial, a documentary about his home city Porto made in the city-symphony genre. He made his feature film debut in 1942 with Aniki-Bóbó…
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entertainment · Portuguese film director, screenwriter and racing driver (1908–2015) · screenwriter · film director · cinematographer · film producer · film editor · actor · racing automobile driver · filmmaker · director · also Manoel de Oliveira, Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira, Manoel Candido Pinto De Oliveira, Oliveira
Born 11 December 1908 · Died 2 April 2015 · Q43264
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2026· 2 entries
“profoundly altered his conception of cinema”
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2025· 2 entries
Moviefone: Manoel de Oliveira, O Caso Dele - Where to Watch
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The Film Stage: NYC Weekend Watch: Manoel de Oliveira
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2021· 2 entries
The Guardian: Visit, or Memories and Confessions review – Manoel de Oliveira’s remarkable testament
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Moviefone: Cinema, Manoel de Oliveira and Me - Where to Watch
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2015· 6 entries
Rutland Herald: Manoel de Oliveira, Portugal movie director, 106, dies
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The Guardian: Manoel de Oliveira: his intriguing films are a rebuke to ageism – appreciation
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The Guardian: Manoel de Oliveira: a life and career in pictures
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The Guardian: Manoel de Oliveira obituary
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The Guardian: Manoel de Oliveira, legendary Portuguese director, dies aged 106
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Died 2015-04-02.
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2014· 2 entries
Oliveira was appointed grand officier of the French Légion d’Honneur in a ceremony conducted by France's ambassador to Portugal at the Museu da Fundação Serralves in Porto
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (2014).
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2012· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor of Paris 8 University (2012).
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And premiered at the 69th Venice International Film Festival
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2011· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of the University of Trás-os-Montes and Alto Douro (2011).
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2010· 2 entries
The Guardian: The Strange Case of Manoel de Oliveira, still making films at 101
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Manoel de Oliveira, at the age of 101, was chosen to give the welcoming speech at Pope Benedict XVI's meeting with representatives of the Portuguese cultural world on May 12, 2010, at the Belém Cultural Center.
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2009· 2 entries
Awarded Order of Cultural Merit (Brazil) (2009).
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Oliveira made Eccentricities of a Blonde-Haired Girl (Singularidades de uma Rapariga Loura), based on a short story by Eça de Queirós
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2008· 6 entries
The Guardian: Happy 100th birthday, Manoel Oliveira
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Awarded Honorary Palme d'Or (2008).
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The Guardian: Manoel de Oliveira is still going strong
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IndieWire: He’s the Man: Manoel de Oliveira at BAM
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The Village Voice: Manoel de Oliveira: Man of the Century
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Cannes Film Festival, and the French Legion of Honor
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2007· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Academy Honorary Award (2007).
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Won Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (2007).
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2006· 2 entries
Oliveira made Belle Toujours, a sequel to Luis Buñuel's 1967 film, Belle de Jour
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Released album “Urucuia”.
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2004· 2 entries
Awarded Robert-Bresson Award (2004).
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Oliveira made The Fifth Empire (O Quinto Império – Ontem Como Hoje), a highly political film based on the play El-Rey Sebastião by José Régio
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctor from the NOVA University Lisbon (2002).
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Portuguese architect Eduardo Souto de Moura completed "Cinema House" in Porto, which was designed to commemorate the work of Oliveira
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2001· 1 entry
Oliveira made two feature films at the age of 92
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2000· 1 entry
Oliveira made the film Word and Utopia (Palavra e Utopia), a biography of the Portuguese Jesuit priest Padre António Vieira, based upon letters and sermons that the priest wrote between 1626 and 1695
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1999· 1 entry
Oliveira made The Letter (La Lettre), based on the 17th century French novel The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Academy Critics Award for Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997).
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Oliveira made Voyage to the Beginning of the World (Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo), which was the final film of Italian film star Marcello Mastroianni
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1996· 1 entry
Oliveira worked with French star Michel Piccoli and Greek film star Irene Papas in Party
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1995· 1 entry
Oliveira's reputation had grown and his films were internationally acclaimed
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1994· 2 entries
Oliveira modified the film by adding a new, more avant-garde soundtrack by Freitas Branco
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Oliveira made The Box (A Caixa), based on a play by Hélder Prista Monteiro
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1993· 1 entry
Oliveira made Abraham's Valley (Vale Abraão), based on the novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís
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1992· 1 entry
Oliveira returned to the adaptation of works by Portuguese writer Camilo Castelo Branco with Day of Despair (O Dia do Desespero)
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1991· 1 entry
Oliveira directed The Divine Comedy (A Divina Comédia)
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1990· 1 entry
Oliveira directed No, or the Vain Glory of Command (Non, ou a Vã Glória de Mandar), starring Cintra, Dória and Silveira
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1989· 2 entries
Awarded honorary doctorate of the University of Porto (1989).
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And in 2008, Oliveira was awarded doctorate degrees honoris causa by the University of Porto and by the University of the Algarve
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1986· 1 entry
Oliveira made one of his most experimental films, My Case (Mon Cas), partially based on José Régio's one act play O Meu Caso, although the film also takes inspiration from Samuel Beckett's Fizzles and the Book of Job
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1985· 1 entry
And 2004, and an Honorary Golden Palm for his lifetime achievements in 2008
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1981· 1 entry
Oliveira made Francisca, based on the novel by Agustina Bessa-Luís
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1978· 1 entry
To disastrous reviews, and a shorter theatrical film released in 1979, which received rave reviews and was profiled on the cover of Le Monde
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1971· 2 entries
With Past and Present (O Passado e o Presente), a satirical black comedy on marriage and the bourgeoisie
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Oliveira directed his second feature narrative film, Past and Present, a social satire that both set the standard for his film career afterwards and gained him recognition in the global film community
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1968· 1 entry
And the April 1974 Carnation Revolution, Oliveira's career began to flourish and receive international acclaim
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1967· 1 entry
The Cineclube do Porto sponsored a Week of Portuguese Cinema, where many filmmakers from the blossoming Cinema Novo movement screened films and discussed "the precarious situation of Portuguese cinema in the marketplace,
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1963· 1 entry
Rite of Spring (O Acto de Primavera), a partly documentary, partly narrative film depicting an annual passion play, marked a turning point for his career
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1959· 1 entry
Portugal's National Federation of Industrial Millers commissioned O Pão, a color documentary on Portugal's bread industry
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1956· 1 entry
With The Artist and the City, a twenty-six-minute documentary short film shot in color
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1955· 1 entry
Oliveira traveled to Germany to study new techniques in color cinematography
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1942· 1 entry
With Aniki-Bóbó and continued to make shorts and documentaries for the next 30 years, gaining a minimal amount of recognition without being considered a major filmmaker
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1941· 2 entries
They remained married for nearly 75 years and had four children; their two sons are Manuel Casimiro Brandão Carvalhais de Oliveira (a painter born in 1941 known as Manuel Casimiro), Jose Manuel Brandão Carvalhais de Oliveira (born 1944), and their two daughters Maria Isabel Brandão Carvalhais de Oliveira (born 1947) and Adelaide Maria Brandão Carvalhais de Oliveira (born 1948).
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Known as Manuel Casimiro), Jose Manuel Brandão Carvalhais de Oliveira (born 1944), and their two daughters Maria Isabel Brandão Carvalhais de Oliveira (born 1947) and Adelaide Maria Brandão Carvalhais de Oliveira (born
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1933· 1 entry
Also had the distinction of having acted in the second Portuguese sound film, A Canção de Lisboa
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1931· 2 entries
A documentary short titled Douro, Faina Fluvial
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Completed his first film Douro, Faina Fluvial, a documentary about his home city Porto made in the city-symphony genre
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1927· 2 entries
When he and some friends attempted to make a film about World War I
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When he and his friends worked on a film about the Portuguese participation in World War I, although the film was never made
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1918· 1 entry
Manoel de Oliveira married Maria Isabel Brandão de Meneses de Almeida Carvalhais (1 September 1918 - 11 September 2019) in Porto on December 4, 1940.
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-12-11.
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