Platino Awards Explained

Platino Awards
Current Awards:	11th Platino Awards
Awarded For:	Excellence in cinematic achievements
Presenter:	Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA), Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA)
Location:	Ibero-America

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]

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]

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)		Centro de Convenciones, Punta del Este, Uruguay
4th ^[7]	22 July 2017	The Distinguished Citizen ( Argentina)		Caja Mágica, Madrid, Spain
5th ^[8]	29 April 2018	A Fantastic Woman ( Chile)		Gran Tlachco Theater, Riviera Maya, Mexico
6th ^[9]	12 May 2019	Roma ( Mexico)		Gran Tlachco Theater, Riviera Maya, Mexico
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

Countries

The countries whose films are eligible for nomination are:^[15]

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).