5th Fénix Awards

The 5th Fénix Awards was presented at Mexico City's Teatro de la Ciudad, on November 7, 2018 to honour the best in Ibero-American films of 2017-2018.^[1]

5th Fénix Awards
Date	November 7, 2018
Site	Teatro de la Ciudad, Mexico City, Mexico
Highlights
Best Film	Birds of Passage
Best Actor	Lorenzo Ferro El Angel
Best Actress	Carmiña Martínez Birds of Passage
Most awards	Zama (4)
Most nominations	Zama and Birds of Passage (9)
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Zama and Birds of Passage received the most nominations with nine,^[2] with the first receiving the most, four.^[3]

Winners and nominees

Best Film	Best Director
Birds of Passage •  Colombia Alanis •  Argentina Good Manners •  Brazil Cocote •  Argentina The Heiresses •  Paraguay Museum •  Mexico Zama •  Argentina	Marcelo Martinessi – The Heiresses Anahí Berneri – Alanis Julio Hernández Cordón - Buy Me a Gun Laura Mora - Killing Jesus Alonso Ruizpalacios - Museum Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego - Birds of Passage Lucrecia Martel - Zama
Best Actor	Best Actress
Lorenzo Ferro - El Angel as Carlos Robledo Puch Javier Gutiérrez - The Motive as Álvaro Martín Gael García Bernal - Museum as Juan Núñez Rodrigo Santoro - Un Traductor as Malin Daniel Giménez Cacho - Zama as Don Diego de Zama	Carmiña Martínez - Birds of Passage as Úrsula Sofía Gala Castiglione - Alanis as Alanis Karine Teles - Benzinho as Irene Antonella Costa - Dry Martina as Martina Bárbara Lennie - A Sort of Family as Malena
Best Screenplay	Best Cinematography
Killing Jesus - Laura Mora y Alonso Torres The Heiresses - Marcelo Martinessi Birds of Passage - María Camila Arias y Jacques Toulemonde Petra - Jaime Rosales, Michel Gaztambide y Clara Roquet Zama - Lucrecia Martel	Zama - Rui Poças El Angel - Julián Apezteguía The Heiresses - Luis Armando Arteaga Museum - Damián García Birds of Passage - David Gallego

Special Awards

• Fénix Award for Cinematographic Work: Luiz Carlos Barreto
• Fénix Award for Critical Work: Luciano Monteagudo
• Fénix Award for the Exhibitors: Perfect Strangers