Miss Brasil
Miss Brasil Pageant is a beauty contest that has been held since 1954 between winners of the pageants in the states of Brazil. The winner of Miss Brazil competes in the Miss Universe. The Miss Brazil, and Brazil itself, are responsible for one of the most successful campaigns in history of Miss Universe, with two winners and several runners-up, finalists and semifinalists. It was considered one of the best organized and most successful beauty pageants during the 1950s and 1960s and is believed that much of the fame of the beauty of Brazilian women comes from this. The current Miss Brazil, is from the state of Minas Gerais, Júlia Horta.
History
Competition to win the crown of Miss Brasil began in the 1920s, following a trend throughout the world during that period. A famous controversy occurred when Miss Brasil 1929 competed in the International Pageant of Pulchritude, known as "Miss Universe" in the 1930s, but failed to place in the competition, much less win.The angered Brazilians hosted their own international pageant in 1930 leading to two separate "Miss Universe" titles that year, not related to the modern Miss Universe competition created in 1952. In the Brazilian "Miss Universe", Miss Brasil won the title while in the other competition in the US, Miss United States received the crown of Miss Universe 1930. These competitions, like many others in the world, were discontinued as the Great Depression and World War II diverted the world's attention.
The modern Miss Brasil pageant was created in 1954 in the city of Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro. The first edition of Miss Brasil, won by Bahia's representative Martha Rocha, was sponsored by the Folha de S.Paulo newspaper.
Organization
Under Diários Associados
In the following year, Brazilian media businessman, mogul and journalist Assis Chateaubriand took the rights to the Miss Brasil pageant, when the winners qualified to the Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss International pageants. The magnate who created Diários Associados, was responsible for promotion of the national beauties until 1980, when the network Rede Tupi was lost its concession by order of Haroldo de Mattos, Brazilian minister of Communications at the time, due to its bankruptcy.The Quintandinha's roots
The Miss Brasil first four editions were held in Palácio Quitandinha, Petrópolis. When Chateaubriand's media group assumed the promotion of pageant, it was massified nationally by its magazines and newspapers coverages, especially in the now defunct O Cruzeiro and O Jornal.All national winners of the pageant in this period were placed into Miss Universe pageant, held in Long Beach, California in the United States.
Maracanãzinho's "golden years"
Miss Brazil's golden era began in 1958, when the pageant was moved from Petrópolis to the Federal District at the time, Rio de Janeiro. Rio Grande do Sul's Iêda Maria Vargas and Bahia's Martha Vasconcellos were winners of the 1963 and 1968 editions of Miss Universe. The same year that Vasconcellos was crowned, Guanabara State's Maria da Gloria Carvalho nabbed the Miss International title, while in 1971, Lucia Tavares Petterle was elected Miss World.Adalgisa Colombo and Rejane Vieira Costa were 1st runners up at Miss Universe in 1958 and 1972 respectively. .
Due to a fire in a part of Maracanãzinho's structure, the Miss Brazil 1970 pageant winner, Guanabara State's Eliane Fialho Thompson was crowned in an event edition held only one time in Pavilhão de São Cristóvão, in a Carioca northern zone district. Its edition was the first nationally televised by Rede Tupi via a microwave system powered by Embratel.
In 1973, due to lack of public and media interest, and possible feminist protests, organizers moved the site to Ginásio Presidente Médici in the country's capital, Brasília. The Miss Brasil 1972 pageant was the last held in Maracanãzinho's dependencies.
The Brasilia "decadence" and crisis
When the Miss Brasil pageant moved to the federal capital, Brasília, lack of public interest continued from 1973 to last edition in the city, held in 1980.In the 1976 pageant, Helena Rubinstein cosmetics company retired its sponsorship of the Miss Brasil event. So, Catalina Swimwear brand continued its support to organization for some years until the mid-1980s, when the event broadcasting rights were assumed by SBT.
All Brazilian presidents of the period received the Miss Brasil state contestants in the Alvorada Palace days before the final nights, hosted by its coordinator at the time, Paulo Max, and actress Marly Bueno and telecasted by Tupi and its O&O, TV Brasília.
Under SBT
When the channels of defunct Tupi were redistributed for media businessman and TV animator Sílvio Santos and Russian-Brazilian journalist and owner of Manchete magazine Adolpho Bloch groups, on April 23, 1981, the new network SBT owned the Miss Brasil until 1989.Criticism
For the Miss Brasil pageant the 1980s was known the most tacky period, by opinion of some fans and television critics. The last top 5 obtained by a Brazilian representative in Miss Universe was in 1981, by the Rio de Janeiro candidate in national pageant, Adriana Alves de Oliveira. Because of the lack of ratings and announcers, SBT retired the promotion of Miss Brasil in April 1990, after the country had not participated in Miss Universe 1990.Format changes
In this period, Miss Brazil pageant was held in separate pageants for Miss Universe, Miss World and Miss International. SBT telecast to same state pageants, nationwide in Programa Sílvio Santos and locally by the affiliates, such as TV Alterosa and TV Itapoan.Under Marlene Brito and others
In 1990, the SBT's former producer of the pageant, Marlene Brito, took the Miss Brasil rights and production until 1993, when Leila Schuster was crowned without realization of a traditional pageant, but she was indicated by the national direction for representative the country in Miss Universe 1993. From 1994, Miss Brasil was owned by various directors, including the former host in Tupi's period, Paulo Max.The present directors, Nayla Micherif and Boanerges Gaeta Jr., assumed the functions by partnership in 2002. Since this year, the pageant national telecast is back, after some local broadcasts of it in the 1990s.
In the new era, Miss Brasil was broadcast first on Rede TV! and since 2003, Band network has assumed the television rights of the event, with venues in São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro
Locations and venues
- 1954–1957 Palácio Quitandinha, Petrópolis ;
- 1958–1972 Maracanãzinho Gymnasium, Rio de Janeiro
- 1973–1980 Ginásio Presidente Médici, Brasília
- 1981–1987 Palácio das Convenções do Anhembi, São Paulo
- 1988–1989 Teatro Sílvio Santos, São Paulo
- 1991 The Gallery, São Paulo
- 1992 Olympia, São Paulo
- In 1993, the pageant was replaced by a small event, in a fine restaurant of São Paulo, named Leopolldo. There Leila Schuster was crowned.
In 1997, it was held in the northeastern city of Teresina, in Pavilhão de Eventos Governador Guilherme Melo.
From 1998 to present, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo alternated the rights to host the annual beauty telecast show, at first broadcast by local affiliates from Rede Manchete, Rede Record and CNT.
In 2017, IlhaBela, coast of São Paulo at the Red Theater
Titleholders
| Year | Miss Brasil | Province | Notes |
| 1954 | Martha Rocha † |  Bahia | |
| 1955 | Emília Barreto |  Ceará | |
| 1956 | Maria José Cardoso |  Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 1957 | Teresinha Morango |  Amazonas | |
| 1958 | Adalgisa Colombo † |  Guanabara | |
| 1959 | Vera Regina Ribeiro | Guanabara | |
| 1960 | Jean "Gina" MacPherson | Guanabara | |
| 1961 | Staël Maria da Rocha Abelha |  Minas Gerais | |
| 1962 | Olívia Rebouças | Bahia | |
| 1963 | Ieda Maria Vargas | Rio Grande do Sul | Miss Universe 1963 |
| 1964 | Ângela Vasconcelos |  Paraná | |
| 1965 | Raquel de Andrade | Guanabara | |
| 1966 | Ana Cristina Ridzi † | Guanabara | |
| 1967 | Carmen Ramasco |  São Paulo | |
| 1968 | Martha Vasconcellos | Bahia | Miss Universe 1968 |
| 1969 | Vera Fischer |  Santa Catarina | |
| 1970 | Eliane Thompson | Guanabara | |
| 1971 | Eliane Guimarães | Minas Gerais | |
| 1972 | Rejane Vieira da Costa † | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 1973 | Sandra Mara Ferreira | São Paulo | |
| 1974 | Sandra Guimarães Oliveira | São Paulo | |
| 1975 | Ingrid Budag | Santa Catarina | |
| 1976 | Kátia Celestino Moretto † | São Paulo | |
| 1977 | Cássia Morais Silveira | São Paulo | |
| 1978 | Suzana Araújo | Minas Gerais | |
| 1979 | Marta Jussara da Costa |  Rio Grande do Norte | |
| 1980 | Eveline Schröeter | Rio de Janeiro | |
| 1981 | Adriana Alves de Oliveira | Rio de Janeiro | |
| 1982 | Celice Marques |  Pará | |
| 1983 | Marisa Fully Coelho † | Minas Gerais | |
| 1984 | Ana Elisa Flores | São Paulo | |
| 1985 | Márcia Canavezes |  Mato Grosso | |
| 1986 | Deise Nunes | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 1987 | Jacqueline Meirelles |  Distrito Federal | |
| 1988 | Isabel Bedüschi | Santa Catarina | |
| 1989 | Flávia Cavalcanti | Ceará | |
| 1991 | Patrícia Godói | São Paulo | |
| 1992 | Maria Carolina Portella | Paraná | |
| 1993 | Leila Schüster | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 1994 | Valéria Péris | São Paulo | |
| 1995 | Renata Bessa | Minas Gerais | |
| 1996 | Maria Joana Parizotto | Paraná | |
| 1997 | Nayla Micherif | Minas Gerais | |
| 1998 | Michela Marchi |  Mato Grosso do Sul | |
| 1999 | Renata Fan | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 2000 | Josiane Kruliskoski | Mato Grosso | |
| 2001 | Juliana Borges | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 2002 | Joseane Oliveira | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 2003 | Gislaine Ferreira |  Tocantins | |
| 2004 | Fabiane Niclotti † | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 2005 | Carina Beduschi | Santa Catarina | |
| 2006 | Rafaela Zanella | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 2007 | Natália Guimarães | Minas Gerais | |
| 2008 | Natália Anderle |  Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 2009 | Larissa Costa | Rio Grande do Norte | |
| 2010 | Débora Lyra | Minas Gerais | |
| 2011 | Priscila Machado | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 2012 | Gabriela Markus | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 2013 | Jakelyne Oliveira | Mato Grosso | |
| 2014 | Melissa Gurgel | Ceará | |
| 2015 | Marthina Brandt | Rio Grande do Sul | |
| 2016 | Raissa Santana | Paraná | |
| 2017 | Monalysa Alcântara |  Piauí | |
| 2018 | Mayra Dias | Amazonas | |
| 2019 | Júlia Horta | Minas Gerais |
Miss Brasil Universo
Winners by state
States who have yet to win the Miss Brasil Be Emotion titleNotes
- Since their debut at Miss Universe in 1954, Brazil has never failed an edition.
- Rio Grande do Sul is the most successful state and has won the Miss Brasil title fourteen times, closely followed by Minas Gerais with nine and São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro both with eight.
- Piauí is the 16th state who wins the title first time in 2017.
- The extinct Guanabara State occupied the same territory of the city of Rio de Janeiro and was added to Rio de Janeiro State in 1975. All the evidence obtained by the state of Rio de Janeiro until 1974 belonged indeed to the former state of Guanabara.
- Brasil not wins the Miss Universe title since 1960s, even though they hold an important amount of placements at Miss Universe.
- Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo and Rio Grande do Sul, are the only ones who have kept two years in a row the Miss Brasil Be Emotion title not one, but twice in 1965-1966 and 1980-1981, 1973-1974 and 1976-1977, 2001-2002 and 2011-2012, respectively.
- Rio de Janeiro as the extinct Guanabara State is the only one who has won the Miss Brasil title three years in a row in 1958, 1959 y 1960.
- Brasil holds an ongoing streak at the top 20 with eight placements in a row.
- Rio Grande do Sul and Bahia are the only states each of them have produced a Miss Universe, Iêda Maria Britto Vargas and Martha Vasconcellos in 1963 and 1968, respectively.
- Brasil holds a record of 38 placements at Miss Universe. A total of fifteen finalists between two Miss Universe, five 1st runners up, one 2nd runner up, two 3rd runners up its curious that Brazil reached this place twice when Venezuela won the Miss Universe title, five 4 runners up and twenty two semifinalists.
- The first time a state from the North region won the Miss Brasil Be Emotion title was Amazonas 1957, from the South was Rio Grande do Sul in 1956, from the Northeast was Bahia in 1954, from the Southeast was Rio de Janeiro as the extinct Guanabara in 1958 and the first time a West Central region won was Mato Grosso in 1985.
- **Joseane Oliveira, from Rio Grande do Sul, was the winner of Miss Brasil 2002 and competed in the Miss Universe, but she was stripped of the crown later because she was married at the time of her crowning. The first runner up from Santa Catarina took over the title and finished the duties of Miss Brasil Be Emotion 2002. This is only case in whole history of Miss Brasil Be Emotion that the title is taken away from the winner and given to the first runner up.
- Deise Nunes de Souza, Raissa Oliveira Santana and Monalysa Alcântara are the only three black winners in the history of the entire contest who have won the Miss Brasil title in 1986, 2016 and 2017, respectively.
Miss Brasil winners by regions
Ranking
- Updated with the latest edition of Miss Brasil Be Emotion 2019:
Miss Brasil Internacional
Winners by state
Hosts
- Silvio Santos: 1982
- Marcos Mion: 2003
- Gustavo Gianetti: 2004
- Renata Fan: 2009
- Adriane Galisteu: 2011
Venue
- Palácio Quitandinha: 1954
- Ginásio do Maracanãzinho: 1958-1969
- Nilson Nelson Gymnasium: 1973-1981
- Anhembi Convention Center: 1982
- Belmond Copacabana Palace: 1999-2000, 2005
- Hotel Glória: 2001
- Via Funchal: 2003
- Citibank Hall : 2004, 2006, 2008,2015,2016
- Latin America Memorial: 2009-2010
Television acts
The actresses
Some Miss Brasil winners or finalists were acting in a lead or supporting roles in telenovelas and motion pictures after her reigns. By example:- Natália Guimarães ';
- Grazielli Massafera ';
- Mayana Neiva ';
- Marisa Fully Coelho ';
- Suzy Rego ';
- Vera Fischer '.
The hostesses
- Brasília's resident and Cuiabá's native Jacqueline Meirelles. She won Miss Universe 1987 best national costume;
- Rio Grande do Sul's Luize Altenhofen 1st runner-up, 1998, she did not compete at the Miss International of that year held in Tokyo due to illness.
- São Paulo's Adriana Colin 1st runner-up, 1989.
- However, the most famous former Miss Brazil who became TV hostess is Renata Fan, from Rio Grande do Sul, winner of Miss Brazil 1999, but she unplaced Top 10 at Miss Universe from same year. She also won Miss World University 2000. She has also hosted the TV show Jogo Aberto at Rede Bandeirantes.
Reality-TV
- Paraná's Grazielli Massafera was 2nd runner-up at national pageant in earlier years. She represented the country at Miss International 2004, held in Beijing;later she was able to establish a consolidated career as an actress, including getting an 44th International Emmy Awards nomination.
- São Paulo's Solange Frazão was 1st runner-up at the national pageant organized by the network of the program in 1982. Today, she is a very popular TV hostess in her country.
- Rio Grande do Sul's Joseane Oliveira lost her title on February 4 of that year after admitting to her marriage in a popular Sunday TV show, Domingão do Faustão.
- Pernambuco's Michelle Fernandes was Top 15 in the national pageant previously year.
- Amazonas's Vívian Amorim Big Brother Brasil 17 Runner Up was Top 10 in the national pageant in 2012.
- Paraná's Raissa Santana - Runner- Up Runner Up Dancing Brasil 3 in 2018 ).