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Black Orpheus: (Orfeu Negro in Portuguese) is a 1959 film made in Brazil by French director Marcel Camus. It is based on the play Orfeu da Conceição by Vinicius de Moraes, which is an adaptation of the Greek legend of Orpheus and Eurydice, setting it in the modern context of Rio de Janeiro during the Carnaval. The film is particularly renowned for its soundtrack by bossa nova legend Antonio Carlos Jobim, featuring songs such as ?Manhã de Carnaval? (written by Luiz Bonfá) and ?A felicidade? that were to become Bossa nova classics. Black Orpheus won the Palme d?Or at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival as well as the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and the 1960 Golden Globe for Best Foreign Film. - Criterion Colletion