Platino Awards

The Platino Awards, known in Spanish as Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano ('Platinum Prizes of Ibero-American Cinema'), are Ibero-America's annual film awards.^[1]

Platino Awards
Current: 12th Platino Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in cinematic achievements
Location	Ibero-America
Presented by	Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA), Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA)
First award	5 April 2014; 11 years ago (2014-04-05)
Website	premiosplatino.com

The awards were established in 2013, and the first awards ceremony took place on 5 April 2014 at the Teatro Anayasi, Panama City. The ceremony continues to take place annually between April and July, and awards are given to films produced during the previous year.

The award itself is a platinum figure with the shape of a woman offering the world with Latin America's map on the center, it was created by designer Javier Mariscal.^[2]

History

To reward the best Ibero-American films of each year, the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) along with the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA) decided to create the Platino Awards. The inaugural ceremony took place on 5 April 2014 at the Anayasi theatre in Panama City. The Awards were created as a window to show and promote Ibero-America´s cinematography around the world.

Awards

The awards are currently delivered in 22 competitive-categories, 16 for film and 6 for television, with a maximum of four candidates for each category since the VI Edition (having been 7 candidates for the Best Film Award on the I Edition). A special award, the Honorary Award, is also presented.^[3]

Current categories

• Best Ibero-American Film
• Best Comedy Film
• Best Director
• Best Actor
• Best Actress
• Best Supporting Actor
• Best Supporting Actress
• Best Screenplay
• Best Original Score
• Best Animated Film
• Best Documentary
• Best First Feature Film
• Best Film Editing
• Best Art Direction
• Best Cinematography
• Best Sound
• Film and Education Values
• Best Miniseries or TV series
• Best Series Creator
• Best Actor in a Miniseries or TV series
• Best Actress in a Miniseries or TV series
• Best Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or TV series
• Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or TV series

Honorary categories

• Platino Honorary Award

Discontinued categories

• Platino Award for Best Ibero-American Co-Production

Award ceremonies

The following is a listing of all Platino Awards ceremonies since 2014.

Ceremony	Date	Best Picture winner	Host(s)	Venue
1st [4]	5 April 2014	Gloria ( Chile)	Alessandra Rosaldo & Juan Carlos Arciniegas	Teatro Anayasi, Panama City, Panama
2nd [5]	18 July 2015	Wild Tales ( Argentina)	Alessandra Rosaldo, Imanol Arias & Juan Carlos Arciniegas	Starlite Auditorio, Marbella, Spain
3rd [6]	24 July 2016	Embrace of the Serpent ( Colombia)	Natalia Oreiro, Santiago Segura & Adal Ramones	Centro de Convenciones, Punta del Este, Uruguay
4th [7]	22 July 2017	The Distinguished Citizen ( Argentina)	Carlos Latre & Natalia Oreiro	Caja Mágica, Madrid, Spain
5th [8]	29 April 2018	A Fantastic Woman ( Chile)	Eugenio Derbez	Gran Tlachco Theater, Riviera Maya, Mexico
6th [9]	12 May 2019	Roma ( Mexico)	Cecilia Suárez & Santiago Segura
7th [10]	29 June 2020	Pain and Glory ( Spain)	Majida Issa, Omar Chaparro & Juan Carlos Arciniegas	Virtual
8th [11]	3 October 2021	Forgotten We'll Be ( Colombia)	Juana Acosta & Luis Gerardo Méndez	IFEMA Palacio Municipal, Madrid, Spain
9th [12]	1 May 2022	The Good Boss ( Spain)	Lali Espósito & Miguel Ángel Muñoz
10th [13]	22 April 2023	Argentina 1985 ( Argentina)	Carolina Gaitán, Omar Chaparro & Paz Vega
11th [14]	20 April 2024	Society of the Snow ( Spain)	Esmeralda Pimentel & Majida Issa	Gran Tlachco Theater, Riviera Maya, Mexico
12th [15]	27 April 2025	I'm Still Here ( Brazil)	Aislinn Derbez & Asier Etxeandía	IFEMA Palacio Municipal, Madrid, Spain

Countries

The countries whose films are eligible for nomination are:^[16]

•  Andorra
•  Argentina
•  Bolivia
•  Brazil
•  Chile
•  Colombia
•  Costa Rica
•  Cuba
•  Ecuador
•  El Salvador
•  Spain
•  Guatemala
•  Honduras
•  Mexico
•  Nicaragua
•  Panama
•  Paraguay
•  Peru
•  Portugal
•  Puerto Rico
•  Dominican Republic
•  Uruguay
•  Venezuela

Trivia

"Big Five" winners and nominees

Winners

No film has won the awards for Best Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay yet.

Nominees

Four awards won

• Wild Tales (2015): won Film, Director (Damián Szifron), Screenplay (Damián Szifron) and Actress (Érica Rivas); lost Actor (Leonardo Sbaraglia).

One award won

• The Club (2016): won Screenplay (Pablo Larraín, Guillermo Calderón and Daniel Villalobos); lost Film, Director (Pablo Larraín), Actor (Alfredo Castro) and Actress (Antonia Zegers).

Multiple wins

Films

Films with two or more awards.

8 wins Wild Tales (2015) 7 wins Embrace of the Serpent (2016) 6 wins Pain and Glory (2020) Society of the Snow (2024) 5 wins A Fantastic Woman (2018) Roma (2019) Forgotten We'll Be (2021) Argentina, 1985 (2023) 4 wins A Monster Calls (2017) The Good Boss (2022) The Beasts (2023) 20,000 Species of Bees (2024)

3 wins Gloria (2014) The Distinguished Citizen (2017) Zama (2018) La llorona (2021) Parallel Mothers (2022) I'm Still Here (2025) 2 wins Underdogs (2014) Julieta (2017) The Realm (2019) The Heiresses (2019) Monos (2020) Rosa's Wedding (2021) The Mole Agent (2021) Lullaby (2023) Utama (2023) Robot Dreams (2024) The Room Next Door (2025) Undercover (2025)

Series

Series with two or more awards.

4 wins Patria (2021) News of a Kidnapping (2023) 3 wins Money Heist (2020) El Reino (2022)

2 wins The Great Heist (2021) La mesías (2024)

Multiple nominations

Films

Films with four or more nominations.

14 nominations Argentina, 1985 (2023) 11 nominations La llorona (2021) Forgotten We'll Be (2021) The Good Boss (2022) 10 nominations Wild Tales (2015) 9 nominations Marshland (2015) A Fantastic Woman (2018) Roma (2019) 8 nominations Bad Hair (2015) Behavior (2015) Embrace of the Serpent (2016) Ixcanul (2016) Zama (2018) The Endless Trench (2020) Maixabel (2022) 7 nominations Mr. Kaplan (2015) A Monster Calls (2017) Last Days in Havana (2018) Pain and Glory (2020) While at War (2020) Society of the Snow (2024) 6 nominations The Club (2016) A Twelve-Year Night (2019) Birds of Passage (2019) Schoolgirls (2021) Parallel Mothers (2022) The Beasts (2023) Lullaby (2023) Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2023) Close Your Eyes (2024) El conde (2024)

5 nominations The Clan (2016) The German Doctor (2014) Magallanes (2016) Truman (2016) Neruda (2017) Summer 1993 (2018) Champions (2019) The Heiresses (2019) Utama (2023) Puan (2024) 4 nominations Gloria (2014) Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2014) The Distinguished Citizen (2017) Smoke & Mirrors (2017) Julieta (2017) The Thin Yellow Line (2017) From Afar (2017) The Bookshop (2018) The Summit (2018) The Realm (2019) Monos (2020) The Weasel's Tale (2020) Coven (2021) 7 Prisoners (2022) 1976 (2023) The Kings of the World (2023) The Delinquents (2024) 20,000 Species of Bees (2024)

Series

Series with four or more nominations.

6 nominations El Reino (2022) News of a Kidnapping (2023) 5 nominations Patria (2021)

4 nominations Money Heist (2020) Monzón: A Knockout Blow (2020) Someone Has to Die (2021) The Great Heist (2021) Money Heist (2021) Yosi, the Regretful Spy (2024) División Palermo (2024)

See also

• Latin American television awards
• Goya Awards
• Ariel Awards
• Sur Awards