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Platino Award for Best Director
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The Platino Award for Best Director (Spanish: Premio Platino al mejor director / Premio Platino a la mejor dirección) is one of the Platino Awards, Ibero-America's film awards presented annually by the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) and the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA).
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It was first presented at the 1st Platino Awards, where Mexican director Amat Escalante was the first recipient of the award for the film Heli. Escalante also won Best Director at the 56th Ariel Awards, Mexico's most important film awards.[1] Starting with a set of four nominees in 2014, the category presented five nominees from 2015 to 2018, later returning to four in 2019.
Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar is the only director who has won the award more than once with two wins, in 2017 for Julieta and in 2020 for Pain and Glory.
Almodovar is also the most nominated director with four nominations, followed by Pablo Larraín with three, and Sebastián Lelio, Álvaro Brechner, Ciro Guerra, J. A. Bayona, Isabel Coixet and Icíar Bollaín, all with two nominations each.
As of 2024, six of the eleven winners for the award have been Spanish directors, being the country with the most winner and nominees in the category.
In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.
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Awards and nominations







2010s
2020s
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