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City of God (: Cidade de Deus) is a 2002 Brazilian directed by and co-directed by , released in its home country in 2002 and worldwide in 2003. The story was adapted by from the written by , but the plot is loosely based on real events. It depicts the growth of organized crime in the suburb of , between the end of the 1960s and the beginning of the 1980s, with the closure of the film depicting the war between the drug dealer Li'l Zé and criminal Knockout Ned. The tagline is "If you run, the beast catches; if you stay, the beast eats", (a proverb analogous to the English "Damned if you do, damned if you don't").

The cast includes , , , , and . Most of the actors were, in fact, residents of such as and the itself.

The film received four nominations in 2004: (), (Meirelles), (Daniel Rezende) and (Mantovani). Before that, in 2003 it had been chosen to be Brazil's runner for the , but it was not nominated to be one of the five finalists. If it were nominated, it would have been ineligible the next year for any other category.