Performer
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio rank
#19995
of 909177 performers
Top 5%
Augusto Madeira works on versatility rather than volume, and the catalogue keeps proving that the quieter choice was the correct one.
The essay
Our editors on the work, the patterns and the reason this body of work holds together.
Augusto Madeira appears in 15 films in the Nutevio catalogue, and none of them would work the same way without Augusto. O Advogado de Deus is the clearest case: a film rated 9.0 by our editors, where the performance carries weight the script only implies.
The recognisable elements are versatility, quiet performance, transformation. Watch two of these films back to back and the method separates from the material — the same instrument, tuned differently for drama, romance, comedy. It is a style built on what is withheld as much as what is played.
Working with Wagner de Assis, Daniel Lieff, Daniel Rezende and others, Augusto Madeira helped set a standard other performers now audition against. Awards bodies have been slower than the work, which is usually the sign of a career built on choices rather than campaigns.
O Advogado de Deus (2026) as Antonio de Almeida · Here the Whole Time (2026) as Delegado · Livros Restantes (2025) as Carlos Henrique
Career snapshot
Ranked #19995 of 909177 performers tracked in the Nutevio library.
Films in Nutevio
15
2007–2026
Career length
19 yrs
Measured across our catalogue
Academy Awards
—
Unknown
Oscar nominations
—
Unknown
Highest Nutevio score
9.0
O Advogado de Deus
Average Nutevio score
5.8
Across catalogue work
Highest IMDb rating
9.0
O Advogado de Deus
Most frequent director
Daniel Rezende
2 films together
Longest collaboration
2×
With Daniel Rezende
Most common genre
Drama
8 titles
Average runtime
1h 12m
Across catalogue work
Golden Globe wins
—
Unknown
Nutevio metric
Ten weighted categories, applied identically to everyone we cover.
Nutevio Performer Score
6.8
out of 10
A performer whose catalogue work here is strong, with the fuller case still to be made.
Nutevio metric
Cultural impact and legacy, measured separately from craft — how far the work travelled once it left the cinema.
Nutevio Influence Score
6.4
out of 10
A quieter influence — felt inside the films rather than across the industry.
How far the work travelled past the people who saw it first.
What survives once the release-week conversation has burned off.
Institutional acknowledgement, weighted but never decisive.
Years of chosen, relevant work rather than years merely employed.
Statuettes, read as evidence rather than verdict.
Roles named without needing the film named alongside them.
Directors who wrote parts because this performer existed.
The reading other performers now have to answer.
Actor DNA
A fingerprint derived from the roles themselves — register, range and the kind of film they carry.
The shape of a career
Every performance plotted in time. Hover a point to read the title behind it.
Peak years
Where the scores, the awards and the sheer volume of work agree with each other.
Best decade
2000s
7.9 average MV
The 2000s are where the work and the material meet. Elite Squad — the run our editors reach for first when the argument is about range rather than fame.
Highest average Nutevio score
2000s
7.9
Across 1 catalogue film in this decade, our scores never drop below the level a career is judged on.
Highest average IMDb rating
2000s
8.1
The public agrees most strongly about this stretch — useful context, and occasionally a decade behind our own reading.
Most awarded era
2000s
0 Academy Awards
Statuettes for the films themselves, which is the honest way to read an ensemble career. Elite Squad.
Most productive era
2020s
12 films
The busiest stretch of the catalogue — volume that reads as appetite rather than availability.
Range, mapped
Genres down the side, decades across the top. Warmer cells mean stronger titles.
| Genre | 2000s | 2010s | 2020s |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drama | 7.91 film | 7.41 film | 6.16 films |
| Action | 7.91 film | — | 6.11 film |
| Thriller | — | — | 6.11 film |
| Comedy | — | 7.52 films | 4.56 films |
| Crime | 7.91 film | — | 5.92 films |
| Romance | — | — | 4.32 films |
| Horror | — | — | 5.81 film |
Chronology
Firsts and peaks
The turning points, in the order they happened.
First film in Nutevio
2007Elite Squad
Where our catalogue meets this career, as Médico da Polícia.
First Nutevio masterpiece · Highest rated performance · Career peak
The first film here to clear 9.0 on our scale — a threshold fewer than one film in ten reaches. 9.0 on the Nutevio scale, the top of the catalogue for this performer. Weighing billing against the film's own quality, this is the point where everything aligned at once.
Most recent film
2026Voltei na Foto
The current state of the argument.
Our order
Every performance in the catalogue, ordered by Nutevio Score.
Every title
Filter by genre or decade, and compare any two titles side by side.
15 of 15 films
as Antonio de Almeida
Directed by Wagner de Assis
as Carlos Henrique
Directed by Unknown
as Médico da Polícia
Directed by José Padilha
Directed by Unknown
From the library
Every movie and TV credit stored for this name in the Nutevio catalogue — filter by media, role or sort by rating.
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The defining work
#1
Antonio de Almeida
O Advogado de Deus (2026)
Performance score8.9
The performance the rest of the career is read through. Antonio de Almeida gives Augusto Madeira a structure to work against, and the film hands over its centre of gravity without hesitation.
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Delegado
Here the Whole Time (2026)
Performance score8.2
Here the Whole Time asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Delegado is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Carlos Henrique
Livros Restantes (2025)
Performance score8.2
Livros Restantes asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Carlos Henrique is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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Médico da Polícia
Elite Squad (2007)
Performance score7.7
Elite Squad asks for something the previous films did not, and gets it. Médico da Polícia is played without a single line of pleading for the audience's sympathy — which is exactly why it lands.
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A guided path through the work, ordered so each film explains the next.
Best entry point
as Antonio de Almeida
Start here. O Advogado de Deus is the clearest statement of what Augusto Madeira does — accessible, 0 minutes, and rated 9.0 by our editors. No context required.
Our editors order this path by accessibility first and chronology second. You meet Augusto at the most legible performance, then move forward in time so each film reads as a response to the one before it rather than a repetition of it.
Elite Squad (2007)
Keeps the drama register of O Advogado de Deus but asks for a colder reading of it.
Dreaming of Braddock (2019)
A deliberate change of key after Elite Squad — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Livros Restantes (2025)
Same director as Dreaming of Braddock, different problem to solve. Watching them in order shows how much of the effect was the collaboration.
Here the Whole Time (2026)
A deliberate change of key after Livros Restantes — same instrument, unfamiliar tuning, and the reason range gets mentioned.
Company kept
The directors and performers this career keeps returning to.
Daniel Rezende
Director
2 films together
Notably The Son of a Thousand Men
José Padilha
Director
1 film together
Notably Elite Squad
Vicente Amorim
Director
1 film together
Notably The Division
Daniel Lieff
Director
1 film together
Notably Here the Whole Time
Wagner de Assis
Director
1 film together
Notably O Advogado de Deus
Behind the camera
Who casts this performer, how often, and what the pairing produces.
Daniel Rezende
Director
2 films together · 7.5 avg MV
A working relationship rather than a booking — 2 films, and the register shifts each time.
Best film together
The Son of a Thousand MenWagner de Assis
Director
1 film together · 9.0 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
O Advogado de DeusDaniel Lieff
Director
1 film together · 8.5 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Here the Whole TimeJosé Padilha
Director
1 film together · 7.9 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
Elite SquadVicente Amorim
Director
1 film together · 6.1 avg MV
One film, but the kind that reorganises how a performer is cast afterwards.
Best film together
The DivisionSix degrees
Follow the thread outward — director, film, co-star, and the film after that.
Categories of our own
Six editorial categories we apply to every performer we cover.
Most rewatchable
Elite Squad
as Médico da Polícia
The one that survives a fourth viewing. Nothing in the performance depends on surprise, which is why it keeps paying out.
Most emotional performance
O Advogado de Deus
as Antonio de Almeida
Grief played at conversational volume. The film never asks the audience to cry; the performance simply makes it difficult not to.
Most influential performance
O Advogado de Deus
as Antonio de Almeida
You can hear this reading in other actors' auditions a decade later — the surest measure of influence there is.
Best ensemble performance
Elite Squad
as Médico da Polícia
Work that makes everyone else in the frame better without ever pulling the camera towards itself.
Career defining performance
O Advogado de Deus
as Antonio de Almeida
If the career had to be argued in a single scene, our editors would pick one from this film and rest the case.
In their films' words
“You can build a whole film around a performer who knows when not to speak. Augusto Madeira has known it for a long time.”
Head to head
Put two careers on the same scale and see where the argument actually sits.
Ours alone
Recognitions handed out by this desk, on criteria no awards body uses.
Modern Classic Performer
Awarded
Defining performances delivered inside the last twenty-five years, in films already being taught rather than merely remembered.
Drama Legend
Awarded
8 catalogue titles in drama, each one a reference point for the films that followed.
Our desk
Best ending, best opening, best twist and the rest — categories we apply to everyone we cover.
Best ending
O Advogado de Deus
as Antonio de Almeida
The last five minutes reorganise everything before them, and hold up when you already know what's coming.
Best opening
Elite Squad
as Médico da Polícia
A first sequence that states the rules of the film without explaining a single one of them.
Most emotional
Here the Whole Time
as Delegado
The film where the technique steps aside and lets the feeling arrive undefended.
Best twist
The Division
as Tavinho Cordeiro
A reversal earned by information the film gave you and trusted you to misread.
Best visual achievement
O Advogado de Deus
as Antonio de Almeida
Images that would survive with the sound switched off.
Best action sequence
Elite Squad
as Médico da Polícia
Geography, stakes and consequence held in the same frame — spectacle you can follow.
Best dialogue
Elite Squad
as Médico da Polícia
Lines written to be spoken, staged so the pauses do half the work.
Most underrated film
The Park Maniac
as Delegado Medeiros
The public vote sits below ours on this one, and the direction is the reason for the gap.
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