2014Nominee
Best Performance
Índio Cidadão?
Raoni Metuktire
Actor
Peixoto de Azevedo, Mato Grosso, Brazil
January 1, 1932
Biography
Raoni Metuktire (born in 1932), also known as Chief Raoni or Ropni, is an Indigenous Brazilian leader and environmentalist. He is a chief of the Kayapó people, a Brazilian Indigenous group from the plain lands of the Mato Grosso and Pará in Brazil, south of the Amazon River and along Xingu River and its tributaries. He is internationally famous as a living symbol of the fight for the preservation of the Amazon rainforest and indigenous culture.
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Awards and Honors
Critical Favorites
1978Nominee
Best Performance
Raoni
2024Nominee
Best Performance
The Chief's Call: Inheritance, Land, and Future
Career Highlights
2006Highlight
Best Performance
The Hills of Disorder
2023Highlight
Best Performance
Raoni, Uma Amizade Improvável
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The Chief's Call: Inheritance, Land, and Future