---
name: "Daniel Rezende"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/daniel-rezende"
fi1m_id: "daniel-rezende"
imdb_id: "nm1179870"
tmdb_id: 8578
wikidata_id: "Q1162308"
roles: ["Editor"]
born: "5 May 1975"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 82
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-17T15:55:48.523530+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Daniel Rezende

## Identity

Daniel Rezende

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/daniel-rezende
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** daniel-rezende
- **IMDb ID:** nm1179870
- **TMDB ID:** 8578
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1162308
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Rezende, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1162308, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1179870/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8578

Editor. Born 5 May 1975 in São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil.

## Details

- **Work:** Editor
- **Born:** 5 May 1975, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
- **Active:** 2002–2011
- **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 2000s 82 (2), 2010s 84 (1)
- **Fi1m against the critics:** 82 to 78 across 3 titles
- **Score spread:** 2 at 80+, 1 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Genres:** Drama 3, Crime 1, Fantasy 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $143m across 3 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Rezende, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1162308, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1179870/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/8578

## Streaming the US now

- **Amazon Prime Video:** [*The Motorcycle Diaries*](https://film.one/film/the-motorcycle-diaries.md) (77)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Daniel Rezende is a Brazilian film editor and director. He edited the 2002 film *City of God*, for which he won the BAFTA Award for Best Editing and received an Academy Award nomination for Best Film Editing.

Rezende made his directorial debut with *Bingo: The King of the Mornings* (2017). He has since directed *Monica and Friends: Bonds* (2019), episodes of the series *The Mechanism* (2018), *Monica and Friends: Lessons* (2021) and *The Son of a Thousand Men* (2025).

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (3)

- *The Tree of Life* (2011), Fi1m 84, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-tree-of-life.md)
- *The Motorcycle Diaries* (2004), Fi1m 77, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/the-motorcycle-diaries.md)
- *City of God* (2002), Fi1m 86, Editor — [page](https://film.one/film/city-of-god.md)

## Complete filmography (33)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Son of a Thousand Men* (2025), Director, Writer, Executive Producer
- *Chuck Billy and The Marvelous Guava Tree* (2025), Producer
- *Monica and Friends: How It All Began* (2024), series, Director, Creator
- *Franjinha e Milena em Busca da Ciência* (2024), series, Supervising Art Director, Producer
- *Monica and Friends* (2022), series, Director, Producer, Creator
- *Monica and Friends: Lessons* (2021), Producer, Director
- *Nobody's Looking* (2019), series, Director, Executive Producer, Creator
- *Monica and Friends: Bonds* (2019), Director
- *The Mechanism* (2018), series, Director
- *7 Days in Entebbe* (2018), Editor
- *Bingo: The King of the Mornings* (2017), Director
- *The Man of Your Life* (2017), series, Director
- *RoboCop* (2014), Editor
- *Invisible World* (2013), Editor
- *Céu Inferior* (2012), Editor
- *360* (2012), Editor
- *Crossing the Line* (2012), series, Director
- *Captive Beauty* (2011), Editor
- *The Story of Artigas* (2011), Editor
- *The Tree of Life* (2011), Editor — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-tree-of-life.md)
- *Elite Squad: The Enemy Within* (2010), Editor
- *The Best Things in the World* (2010), Editor
- *Blackout* (2008), Director
- *Blindness* (2008), Editor
- *Elite Squad* (2007), Editor
- *City of Men* (2007), Editor
- *Lots of Ice and a Little Bit of Water* (2006), as Aluno
- *The Year My Parents Went on Vacation* (2006), Editor
- *Dark Water* (2005), Editor
- *The Motorcycle Diaries* (2004), Editor — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/the-motorcycle-diaries.md)
- *The Storytellers* (2003), Editor
- *City of God* (2002), Editor — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/city-of-god.md)
- *Untitled Live-Action Brichos Film*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Daniel Rezende](https://film.one/media/person/97561/gallery-33b761b82144.jpg) Daniel Rezende — Image via TMDB
- ![Daniel Rezende](https://film.one/media/person/97561/gallery-b4c4cf841959.jpg) Daniel Rezende — Image via TMDB
- ![Daniel Rezende](https://film.one/media/person/97561/gallery-5b6383b2f11a.jpg) Daniel Rezende — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 2004: Best Film Editing (nominated), for *City of God*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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