Following its historic Best International Film win at the Critics Choice Awards, Brazilian actor Wagner Moura appeared on the 2026 Golden Globes red carpet with a talisman of Fernanda Torres, dubbed 'Santa Nanda da Sorte', as a good luck charm. Nominated for best actor in a drama film for 'O Agente Secreto', he arrived with wife Sandra Delgado in a white Maison Margiela suit. The film, a first for Brazilian cinema, contended in three categories.
The 83rd Golden Globes took place on Sunday, January 11, 2026, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles, honoring 2025's top cinema and TV. Building on its Critics Choice triumph, Wagner Moura—star of 'O Agente Secreto', directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho and set in Recife during Brazil's military dictatorship—arrived as a key Brazilian hopeful. The film earned three nominations: best drama film, best non-English language film, and best drama actor for Moura's portrayal of fugitive professor Marcelo.
Moura, a 2016 nominee for 'Narcos', sported a 'santinho' of 2025 winner Fernanda Torres (best drama actress for 'Ainda Estou Aqui'). Distributed by Brazilian broadcasters TNT and HBO Max, it was nicknamed 'Santa Nanda da Sorte' by co-star Gabriel Leone. Castmate Alice Carvalho and director Mendonça Filho also displayed it. 'It's here in my pocket,' Moura told Globo News, adding, 'If we win any award here today, that award is for those at home.'
Styled by Ilaria Urbinati in a white Maison Margiela suit with Omega jewelry, Moura was joined by photographer wife Sandra Delgado. In Variety, he shared prepping a short speech amid the 30-second limit: 'I wrote it, but yesterday I got a message saying under 30 seconds. How am I going to do that?'
In TNT interviews, he called it an 'extraordinary' moment for Brazilian cinema, blending art and politics from his and Mendonça Filho's collaboration. He lamented polarization: 'It's so bad to live in such a polarized world... facts no longer matter' (Veja).
Ultimately, 'O Agente Secreto' didn't win—losing to Timothée Chalamet (actor, musical/comedy) and others—but the nominations highlighted Brazilian cinema's rising Hollywood profile. Mendonça Filho noted boosted global box office on themes of memory under oppression.
