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Occupation
  
Film director

Role
  
Film director

Name
  
Hector Babenco

Years active
  
1973 – present


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Born
  
February 7, 1946 (age 78) (
1946-02-07
)
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Parents
  
Janka Haberberg, Jaime Babenco

Awards
  
Independent Spirit Award for Best Foreign Film

Nominations
  
Academy Award for Best Director, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director

Movies
  
Carandiru, Pixote, Kiss of the Spider W, The Past, Ironweed

Similar People
  
Fernando Ramos da Silva, Manuel Puig, Raul Julia, William Hurt, Sonia Braga

Ex-spouse
  
Xuxa Lopes, Barbara Paz

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Héctor Eduardo Babenco (February 7, 1946 – July 13, 2016) was an Argentine-born Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He worked in several countries including Argentina, Brazil and the United States. His best known films are Pixote (1980), Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Ironweed (1987), At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1990) and Carandiru (2003).

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Life and career

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Babenco was born in Buenos Aires and raised in Mar del Plata. His mother, Janka Haberberg, was a Polish Jewish immigrant, and his father, Jaime Babenco, was an Argentine gaucho of Ukrainian origin. Babenco lived in Europe from 1964 to 1968. In 1969, he decided to stay in São Paulo, Brazil permanently. His first solo feature film as a director was King of the Night (1975).

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Babenco had an international success with Pixote – A lei do mais fraco (1981). It concerns Brazil's abandoned children. In the words of E. Ruby Rich while it concerns "a pair of boys who form a symbiotic sexual union", the film cannot "be held up as an example of how gay desire can be depicted, given its sensationalistic and sordid treatment of gay sex as accommodation, substitution, and punishment". Due to the impressive work of young actor Fernando Ramos da Silva, 10 years old at the time, who was discovered in the suburbs of São Paulo. The film received numerous prizes.

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For Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), Babenco was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director, the first Latin American to be nominated in this category.

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In 1994, Babenco fell ill and had to undergo a bone marrow transplant to treat a lymphatic cancer.

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He directed some of the most respected American actors of his time, including William Hurt, John Lithgow, Raul Julia, Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn and Kathy Bates.

In 2012 Babenco was part of the jury in the 34th Moscow International Film Festival.

His last film was My Hindu Friend (2016), which stars Willem Dafoe. It recounts the story of a film director close to death.

Director and producer

  • O Fabuloso Fittipaldi (1973)
  • King of the Night (1975)
  • Lucio Flavio (1977)
  • Pixote (1980)
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985; director only)
  • Ironweed (1987; director only)
  • At Play in the Fields of the Lord (1991; director only)
  • Foolish Heart (1998)
  • Carandiru (2003)
  • Carandiru, Outras Histórias (2005; TV series; producer)
  • El pasado (2007; also writer)
  • Words With Gods (2014)
  • My Hindu Friend (2016)
  • Actor

  • The Venice Project (1999)
  • Before Night Falls (2000)
  • References

    Héctor Babenco Wikipedia