Platino Award for Best Documentary

The Platino Award for Best Documentary (Spanish: Premio Platino al mejor película documental) is one of the Platino Awards, Ibero-America's film awards, presented by the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) and the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA).

Platino Award for Best Documentary
Awarded for	Best Documentary of the Year
Country	Ibero-America
Presented by	Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA), Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA)
Currently held by	The Echo (2025)
Website	premiosplatino.com

History

It was first presented in 2014, with the Spanish documentary Con la pata quebrada being the first recipient of the award. Spain holds the record of most wins in the category with six as well as most nominations with twenty-two, with at least one nominated Spanish film each edition.

Brazilian films The Salt of the Earth (2015) and The Edge of Democracy (2020) and Chilean films The Mole Agent (2021) and The Eternal Memory (2024), all won the Platino Award and have received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

In the list below. the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

Awards and nominations

2010s

Year	English title	Original title	Director	Country
2014 (1st)	Con la Pata Quebrada		Diego Galán	Spain
	Cuates de Australia		Everardo González	Mexico
	La Eterna Noche de las Doce Lunas		Priscilla Padilla	Colombia  Bolivia
	O Dia que Durou 21 Anos		Camilo Tavares	Brazil
	Sigo Siendo (Kachkaniraqmi)		Javier Corcuera	Peru  Spain
2015 (2nd)	The Salt of the Earth	O Sal da Terra	Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado	Brazil
	Who is Dayani Cristal?	¿Quién es Dayani Cristal?	Marc Silver	Mexico
	El Vals de los Inútiles		Edison Cájas	Chile  Argentina
	Born in Gaza	Nacido en Gaza	Hernán Zin	Spain
	Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda		Francisco Sánchez Varela
2016 (3rd)	The Pearl Button	El botón de nácar	Patricio Guzmán	Chile  Spain
	Chicas Nuevas 24 Horas		Mabel Lozano	Spain  Argentina  Paraguay  Colombia  Peru
	Beyond My Grandfather Allende	Allende mi abuelo Allende	Marcia Tambutti Allende	Chile  Mexico
	The Propaganda Game		Álvaro Longoria	Spain
	Tea Time	La once	Maite Alberdi	Chile
2017 (4th)	Born in Syria	Nacido en Siria	Hernán Zin	Spain
	Atrapados en Japón		Vivienne Barry	Chile
	Cinema Novo		Eryk Rocha	Brazil
	Frágil Equilibrio		Guillermo García López	Spain
	It All Started at the End	Todo comenzó por el fin	Luis Ospina	Colombia
2018 (5th)
	Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle	Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo	Gustavo Salmerón	Spain
	Ejercicios de Memoria		Paz Encina	Paraguay  Argentina
	Dancing Beethoven		Arantxa Aguirre	Spain
	El Pacto de Adriana		Lissette Orozco	Chile
	The Grown-Ups	Los niños	Maite Alberdi
2019 (6th) [1]
	The Silence of Others	El silencio de los otros	Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo	Spain
	Devil's Freedom	La libertad del diablo	Everardo González	Mexico
	Camarón: Flamenco y Revolución		Alexis Morante	Spain
	Ruben Blades Is Not My Name	Yo no me llamo Rubén Blades	Abner Benaim	Panama  Argentina  Colombia

2020s

Year	English title	Original title	Director	Country
2020 (7th) [2]	The Edge of Democracy	Democracia em Vertigem	Petra Costa	Brazil
	Ara Malikian: Una Vida Entre las Cuerdas		Nata Moreno	Spain
	El Cuadro		Andrés Sanz
	Historias de Nuestro Cine		Ana Pérez-Lorente & Antonio Resines
2021 (8th) [3]	The Mole Agent	El agente topo	Maite Alberdi	Chile Spain
	Babenco: Tell Me When I Die	Babenco: Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer Parou	Bárbara Paz	Brazil
	Cartas Mojadas		Paula Palacios	Spain
	The Year of the Discovery	El año del descubrimiento	Luis López Carrasco
2022 (9th) [4][5]	A Última Floresta		Luiz Bolognesi	Brazil
	100 Días con La Tata		Miguel Ángel Muñoz	Spain
	Who's Stopping Us	Quién lo impide	Jonás Trueba
	Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It		Mariem Pérez Riera	Puerto Rico
2023 (10th) [6][7]	The Padilla Affair	El caso Padilla	Pavel Giroud	Cuba Spain
	Bosco		Alicia Cano Menoni	Uruguay
	Eami		Paz Encina	Paraguay Mexico Argentina
	My Imaginary Country	Mi país imaginario	Patricio Guzmán	Chile
	The Silence of the Mole	El silencio del topo	Anaïs Taracena	Guatemala
2024 (11th) [8][9]	The Eternal Memory	La memoria infinita	Maite Alberdi	Chile
	La Memoria del Cine, una Película sobre Fernando Méndez-Leite		Moisés Salama	Spain
	A Wolfpack Called Ernesto	Una jauría llamada Ernesto	Everardo González	Mexico
	The Trial	El juicio	Ulises de la Orden	Argentina
2025 (12th) [10][11]	The Echo	El eco	Tatiana Huezo	Mexico
	The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés	La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés	Antón Álvarez	Spain
	The Lost Children	Los niños perdidos	Orlando von Einsiedel, Lali Houghton	Colombia
	Reas		Lola Arias	Argentina

Awards by nation

Country	Awards (as of 2025)	Nominations (as of 2025)
Spain	6	24
Brazil	3	6
Chile	3	10
Mexico	1	7
Cuba	1	1
Argentina	0	7
Colombia	0	5
Peru	0	2
Paraguay	0	3
Bolivia	0	1
Panama	0	1
Puerto Rico	0	1
Uruguay	0	1
Guatemala	0	1

See also

• Goya Award for Best Documentary
• Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature