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FILM DIRECTOR

Manoel de Oliveira

1908 - 2015

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Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (Portuguese: [mɐnuˈɛl doliˈvɐjɾɐ]; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) 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 and continued to make shorts and documentaries for the next 30 years, gaining a minimal amount of recognition without being considered a major world film director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Manoel de Oliveira has received more than 374,926 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia. Manoel de Oliveira is the 106th most popular film director (down from 94th in 2019), the 59th most popular biography from Portugal (down from 44th in 2019) and the most popular Portuguese Film Director.

Manoel de Oliveira is a Portuguese film director who was born in 1908. He is most famous for his films, which are often about the solitude of old age.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Manoel de Oliveira ranks 106 out of 1,581. Before him are Terrence Malick, Jim Jarmusch, Sidney Lumet, Ang Lee, Jean-Pierre Melville, and Robert Altman. After him are Victor Fleming, Jules Dassin, Wes Craven, Louis Malle, George Cukor, and David Fincher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Manoel de Oliveira ranks 31. Before him are David Lean, Nelson Rockefeller, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, Joseph McCarthy, Franz Stangl, and Carole Lombard. After him are William Saroyan, Dmitry Ustinov, Werner von Haeften, Hannes Alfvén, Willard Libby, and John Kenneth Galbraith. Among people deceased in 2015, Manoel de Oliveira ranks 31. Before him are Kenan Evren, Maya Plisetskaya, Eduardo Galeano, Val Logsdon Fitch, Douglass North, and Tariq Aziz. After him are Wes Craven, Oliver Sacks, Yves Chauvin, James Last, Charles H. Townes, and Yevgeny Primakov.

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In Portugal

Among people born in Portugal, Manoel de Oliveira ranks 59 out of 555. Before him are Marcelo Caetano (1906), Miguel I of Portugal (1802), Afonso VI of Portugal (1643), Pedro V of Portugal (1837), Eleanor of Portugal, Holy Roman Empress (1434), and Afonso II of Portugal (1185). After him are Aníbal Cavaco Silva (1939), Diogo Cão (1440), Jorge Sampaio (1939), Carmen Miranda (1909), Catherine of Braganza (1638), and José Manuel Barroso (1956).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Portugal

Among film directors born in Portugal, Manoel de Oliveira ranks 1. After him are João César Monteiro (1939), Pedro Costa (1958), Eduardo Serra (1943), and Miguel Gomes (1972).

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