Rodrigo Teixeira
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Rodrigo Teixeira

American film producer

Rodrigo Abreu Teixeira (born 2 December 1975) is a Brazilian film producer. Through his RT Features production company, he produced numerous acclaimed feature films, in Hollywood and Brazil, including: Frances Ha (2012), The Witch (2015), Mistress America (2015), Call Me by Your Name (2017), The Lighthouse (2019), The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão (2019), Ad Astra (2019), Bergman Island (2021), Armageddon Time (2022) and I'm Still Here (2024).2

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Born Dec 2, 1976.1

About

In 2024, Teixeira was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing I'm Still Here.

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Companies

Early life and education

Teixeira was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He began his career in the 1990s by acquiring book copyrights.

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Career

Occupation: film producer.4 5

In 2005, Teixeira launched RT Features, a production company focusing on producing and financing films. Its first feature film was the dark comedy Drained (O Cheiro do Ralo), directed by Heitor Dhalia.

Frances Ha (2012), directed by Noah Baumbach, was his first international success as producer. Teixeira re-teamed with Baumbach on Mistress America (2015).

In 2017, Teixeira produced Call Me by Your Name directed by Luca Guadagnino, which earned four nominations at the 90th Academy Awards, with Texieira winning the Gotham Independent Film Award for Best Feature and receiving a nomination for Independent Spirit Award for Best Film.

Teixeira partnership with Martin Scorsese's Sikelia Productions to produce and finance films by emerging filmmakers, financed and produced numerous international productions including: Port Authority directed by Danielle Lessovitz and Murina directed by Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović.

He is also known for his longstanding partnership with James Gray, producing: Ad Astra (2019), Armageddon Time (2022) and Paper Tiger (2026).

In 2024, Teixeira produced I'm Still Here directed by Walter Salles, earning him a nomination for Academy Award for Best Picture.

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Personal life

  • BornDec 2, 1976, Rio de Janeiro6
  • CitizenshipBrazil7

Awards

  • 2018European Film Award – People's Choice Award for Best European Film for Call Me by Your Name8 9