Last month Bolsonaro dismissed Costa’s film – which he admitted he had not seen – as “crap”.
“There is no-one in our country who is more anti-Brazil and more harmful to our overseas image than Bolsonaro.”
Most governments celebrate when their citizens are nominated for Academy Awards – but not in Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil.
The immediate trigger for the presidential attack – which Brazilian experts called unconstitutional – was an interview Costa gave to the American journalist Hari Sreenivasan last week.