Platino Awards
# 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.

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.

## 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.

### 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 | 5 April 2014 | Gloria ( Chile) | Alessandra Rosaldo & Juan Carlos Arciniegas | Teatro Anayasi, Panama City, Panama |
| 2nd | 18 July 2015 | Wild Tales ( Argentina) | Alessandra Rosaldo, Imanol Arias & Juan Carlos Arciniegas | Starlite Auditorio, Marbella, Spain |
| 3rd | 24 July 2016 | Embrace of the Serpent ( Colombia) | Natalia Oreiro, Santiago Segura & Adal Ramones | Centro de Convenciones, Punta del Este, Uruguay |
| 4th | 22 July 2017 | The Distinguished Citizen ( Argentina) | Carlos Latre & Natalia Oreiro | Caja Mágica, Madrid, Spain |
| 5th | 29 April 2018 | A Fantastic Woman ( Chile) | Eugenio Derbez | Gran Tlachco Theater, Riviera Maya, Mexico |
| 6th | 12 May 2019 | Roma ( Mexico) | Cecilia Suárez & Santiago Segura | Gran Tlachco Theater, Riviera Maya, Mexico |
| 7th | 29 June 2020 | Pain and Glory ( Spain) | Majida Issa, Omar Chaparro & Juan Carlos Arciniegas | Virtual |
| 8th | 3 October 2021 | Forgotten We'll Be ( Colombia) | Juana Acosta & Luis Gerardo Méndez | IFEMA Palacio Municipal, Madrid, Spain |
| 9th | 1 May 2022 | The Good Boss ( Spain) | Lali Espósito & Miguel Ángel Muñoz | IFEMA Palacio Municipal, Madrid, Spain |
| 10th | 22 April 2023 | Argentina 1985 ( Argentina) | Carolina Gaitán, Omar Chaparro & Paz Vega | IFEMA Palacio Municipal, Madrid, Spain |

## Countries

The countries that are allowed to submit their national films for consideration are the following:

* 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).

**Nominees**

**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.

### Series

Series with two or more awards.

## Multiple nominations

### Films

Films with four or more nominations.

### Series

Series with four or more nominations.

