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The Boys from Brazil

1978 film by Franklin J. Schaffner
Movie film Q464111
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Summary

The Boys from Brazil is a film[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (7,323 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: National Board of Review Award for Best Actor[3]
  • Director: Franklin J. Schaffner[4]
  • Screenwriter: Heywood Gould[5]
  • Composer: Jerry Goldsmith[6]
  • Genre: science fiction film[7], thriller film[8], crime film[9], political thriller film[10]
  • Based on: The Boys from Brazil[11]
  • Cast member: Gregory Peck[12], Laurence Olivier[13], James Mason[14], Lilli Palmer[15], Steve Guttenberg[16], Denholm Elliott[17], Rosemary Harris[18], John Rubinstein[19], Anne Meara[20], Bruno Ganz[21], Wolfgang Preiss[22], Michael Gough[23], Sky du Mont[24], Prunella Scales[25]
  • Producer: Martin Richards[26], Stanley O'Toole[27]
  • Production company: ITC Entertainment[28]
  • Director of photography: Henri Decaë[29]
  • Original language of film or TV show: English[30]
  • Commons category: The Boys from Brazil (film)[31]
  • Distribution format: video on demand[32]
  • Review score: 6.3/10[33], 70%[34], 40/100[35], 7.0/10[36]
  • Color: color[37]
  • Country of origin: United Kingdom[38], United States[39]
  • Publication date: January 1, 1978[40], September 19, 1985[41]
  • Distributed by: 20th Century Studios[42], Netflix[43]
  • Narrative location: Brazil[44], Pennsylvania[45], Vienna[46]
  • Filming location: Lisbon[47], Portugal[48], Vienna[49], Austria[50], Paraguay[51]
  • Main subject: cloning[52], mad scientist[53]
  • Film editor: Robert Swink[54]
  • Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Actor[55], Academy Award for Best Film Editing[56], Academy Award for Best Original Score[57]
  • Title: The Boys from Brazil[58]

Why It Matters

The Boys from Brazil has Wikipedia articles in 24 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[59] It is known by 42 alternative names across languages and contexts.[60]

FAQs

What awards did The Boys from Brazil receive?

Honors received include National Board of Review Award for Best Actor[3].

Related Entities

Anne Meara Austria Brazil Bruno Ganz Denholm Elliott film Franklin J. Schaffner Gregory Peck Ira Levin James Mason Jerry Goldsmith Laurence Olivier Lilli Palmer Martin Richards Michael Gough Netflix Paraguay Pennsylvania Portugal Prunella Scales Rosemary Harris Steve Guttenberg United Kingdom United States Uta Hagen

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . bbfc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . nytimes.com. Retrieved . nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . IMDb. Retrieved . nytimes.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [12] ↑ . FilmAffinity. Retrieved . bbfc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [13] ↑ . bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbfc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [14] ↑ . bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbfc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [15] ↑ . bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbfc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [16] ↑ . imdb.com. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [17] ↑ . bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbfc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [18] ↑ . bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbfc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [19] ↑ . bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbfc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [20] ↑ . bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbfc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [21] ↑ . bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbfc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [22] ↑ . imdb.com. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [23] ↑ . bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbfc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [24] ↑ . imdb.com. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [25] ↑ . bbfc.co.uk. Retrieved . bbfc.co.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  33. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [36] ↑ . IMDb. wikidata.org.
  35. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [38] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [39] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  38. [40] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  39. [41] ↑ . Lexicon of international films. wikidata.org.
  40. [42] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  41. [43] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  42. [44] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  43. [45] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  44. [46] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  45. [47] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  46. [48] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  47. [49] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  48. [50] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  49. [51] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  50. [52] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  51. [53] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  52. [54] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  53. [55] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  54. [56] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  55. [57] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  56. [58] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [59] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [60] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 4d ago · Kwayst · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Sitelink count → 40
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'bg', 'ca', 'commons', 'cy', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'eu', '
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  2. 5w ago · MsMorale · 2026-08-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14821 → 77269
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  3. 7w ago · Jindřich Rubeš · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Filmová databáze film id → 6232
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  4. 15w ago · Yirba · 2026-06-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Production designer → Peter Lamont
    Set in period → 1980s
    Publication date → +1978-01-01T00:00:00Z, +1985-09-19T00:00:00Z
    Screenwriter → Heywood Gould
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