Happy 53rd Birthday, José Padilha! Born today in 1967 as José Bastos Padilha Neto, this Brazilian screenwriter, producer and film director's features often deal with the subject of corruption and the futility associated with the War On Drugs.
Padhila became educated in business studies, politics and economics in Rio de Janeiro, followed by English literature and international politics in Oxford University.
In 1997, Padilha co-founded the production company Zazen Produções with Brazilian film producer Marcos Prado, whom he met at Oxford. In the years to come, Zazen Produções would become hugely instrumental in his film making affairs.
In the early 2000s, Padilha emerged onto the Brazilian movie scene in co-writing, co-prouctin and co-directing his best known and first feature film. This was the 2002 Brazilian documentary/crime film 'Ônibus 174' ('Bus 174').
The film was also edited and co-directed and Brazilian editor, producer and director Felipe Lacerda and distributed by Zazen Produções.
In 2000, a young Brazilian man named Sandro Barbosa do Nascimento hijacks a bus in Rio de Janeiro to rob its passengers. However, the incident developed into a hostage situation, which was broadcast live by most Brazilian national television channels.
When he holds the entire bus hostage, the press broadcasts it live. This documentary chronicles the incompetent response by police officers to the public event inspired nationwide protest.
Included are details about the captor's harsh childhood after witnessing his mother's murder.
His homelessness provides but one example of the tragic social and political indifference for urban poverty in modern Brazil.
The documentary uses real-life tragedy as the grist for a gripping -- and terribly thought-provoking -- look at societal tensions and police violence.
Roger Ebert wrote the following year: "In North America, we have similar blindness.
One of the blessings of the Streetwise paper is that it provides not only income for its vendors, but visibility; by giving them a role, it gives us a way to relate to them -- to see them, to nod, to say a word or two, whether or not we buy the paper."
Upon release, 'Bus 174' caused controversy for some who believed that Padilha was sympathizing with a criminal, and portraying the police as incompetent and corrupt.
Nonetheless, the film received a lot of attention in multiple film festivals, including Vancouver, San Fransisco and the 25th Sundance Film Festival in January 2003.
The film has won over twenty-three prizes worldwide. In 2005, it received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Cultural & Artistic Programming (after being shown on HBO/Cinemax with great success), and the Amnesty Award in the Netherlands and a Peabody Award.
Later on, 'Bus 174' was voted "one of the ten best films of the year" by The New York Times.
Padhila is known for directing the 2007 Brazilian action/crime film 'Elite Squad' and the 2010 Brazilian action/crime film 'Elite Squad: The Enemy' Within.
Upon release, both films were critical and financial successes, becoming one of the most popular Brazilian movies in history.
Padhila is also the producer and director of the American crime drama television series Narcos (2015–2017), starring frequent collaborator, Brazilian actor, filmmaker, musician, and journalist Wagner Moura.
In the early 2010s, Padhila was considered to direct the 2013 American superhero action/adventure film 'The Wolverine'. However, the position went to American film and television director, screenwriter and producer James Mangold.
The following year, Padhila directed the 2014 American science fiction action/sci-fi film 'RoboCop'.
Upon release, 'RoboCop' received mixed reviews, with praise for some of the cast's performances, action, updates, style and political/media satire.
However, it also received criticism for its lack of violence, social satire and humor compared to the Dutch director, screenwriter and film producer Paul Verhoeven's original film.
Despite this, the film was a box office success. It grossed $242.6 million against its $130 million budget.
In 2018, Padilha was accused all over the internet of intellectual misguidance for attributing a nationally known sentence to be credited to Brazilian politician and economist Romero Jucá.
This was to another character in Padhila's Brazilian political drama television series O Mecanismo (The Mechanism) (2018–2019) on Netflix. The series had been co-created and co-directed by Padilha.
The sentence was from a secret recording emerged of minister Jucá, who was under investigation in the multi billion-dollar kickback scheme at state oil company Petrobras, discussing a purported pact to stall a huge corruption probe that has engulfed much of the nation.
Padhila has been active from 2000–present.
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