Daniel Rezende was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Film Editing for his work on City of God (2002) and won a BAFTA Award for Best Editing for the same film. He also edited RoboCop (2014), The Tree of Life (2011), Die Stadt der Blinden (2008) and many other feature films before moving on to direct his debut film Bingo: O Rei das Manhãs (2017).