4th Platino Awards
# 4th Platino Awards

The 4th Platino Awards was presented at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on July 22, 2017, to honour the best in Ibero-American films of 2016.

A Monster Calls received the most nominations with seven.

## Winners and nominees

### Major awards

| Best Ibero-American Film The Distinguished Citizen Aquarius Smoke & Mirrors Julieta Neruda | Best Director Pedro Almodóvar – Julieta J. A. Bayona – A Monster Calls Kleber Mendonça Filho – Aquarius Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn – The Distinguished Citizen Pablo Larraín – Neruda |
| - | - |
| Platino Award for Best Actor Oscar Martínez – The Distinguished Citizen as Daniel Mantovani Alfredo Castro – From Afar as Armando Damián Alcázar – The Thin Yellow Line as Toño Eduard Fernández – Smoke & Mirrors as Francisco Paesa Luis Gnecco – Neruda as Pablo Neruda | Platino Award for Best Actress Sônia Braga – Aquarius as Dona Clara Angie Cepeda – The Seed of Silence as María del Rosario Durán Emma Suárez – Julieta as Julieta Arcos Juana Acosta – Anna as Anna Natalia Oreiro – I'm Gilda as Gilda |
| Best Screenplay | Best Original Score |
| The Distinguished Citizen – Andrés Duprat [es] Smoke & Mirrors – Alberto Rodríguez & Rafael Cobos The Companion – Pavel Giroud, Alejandro Brugues & Pierre Edelman The Thin Yellow Line – Celso García Neruda – Guillermo Calderón | Julieta – Alberto Iglesias Esteban [ca] – Chucho Valdés Neruda – Federico Jusid A Monster Calls – Fernando Velázquez Incident Light – Mariano Loiácono |
| Best Animated Film Psychonauts, the Forgotten Children Bruxarias La Leyenda del Chupacabras Ozzy Teresa y Tim [ca] | Best Documentary Nacido en Siria [es] Atrapados en Japón Cinema Novo Delicate Balance [es] It All Started at the End |
| Best Cinematography A Monster Calls – Óscar Faura The Chosen Ones – Carolina Costa Neon Bull – Diego Garcia Incident Light – Guillermo Nieto Letters from War – João Ribeiro | Best Art Direction A Monster Calls – Eugenio Caballero Incident Light – Ailí Chen The Queen of Spain – Juan Pedro de Gaspar Letters from War – Nuno Mello The Death of Louis XIV – Sebastián Vogler |
| Best Editing A Monster Calls – Bernat Vilaplana & Jaume Martí May God Forgive Us – Alberto del Campo & Fernando Franco From Afar – Isabela Monteiro de Castro The Thin Yellow Line – Jorge Arturo Garcia Such is Life in the Tropics – José García | Best Sound A Monster Calls – Peter Glossop, Marc Orts & Oriol Tarragó Smoke & Mirrors – Daniel de Zayas, César Molina & José Antonio Manovel Letters from War – Ricardo Leal & Tiago Matos Desierto – Sergio Díaz From Afar – Waldir Xavier |
| Best Ibero-American First Film From Afar The Thin Yellow Line Rara The Fury of a Patient Man Viejo Calavera | Cinema and Education in Values Esteban [ca] The Companion El Jeremías Rara A Monster Calls |
| Best Miniseries or TV series Cuatro estaciones en La Habana Bala Loca El marginal El Ministerio del Tiempo La niña Velvet ||

### Honorary Platino

* Edward James Olmos

## Films with multiple nominations and awards

| Nominations | Film |
| - | - |
| 7 | A Monster Calls |
| 5 | Neruda |
| 4 | The Distinguished Citizen |
| 4 | Smoke & Mirrors |
| 4 | Julieta |
| 4 | The Thin Yellow Line |
| 4 | From Afar |
| 3 | Aquarius |
| 3 | Incident Light |
| 3 | Letters from War |
| 2 | The Companion |
| 2 | Rara |
| 2 | Esteban [ca] |
