Platino Awards

Updated on Dec 17, 2023

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Country Ibero-America First awarded 5 April 2014		Official website premiosplatino.com

Awarded for Excellence in cinematic achievements Presented by Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA), Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA)

Premios platino awards with sonia braga

The Platino Awards, known in Spanish as los Premios Platino del Cine Iberoamericano, are Ibero-America's annual film awards.

The awards were established in 2013, and the first awards ceremony took place on April 5, 2014 at the Teatro Anayasi, Panama City. The ceremony continues to take place annually around the end of 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.

Premios platino awards with carlotto cotta

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 April 5, 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 13 categories, excluding the Platino de Honor, with a maximum of five candidates for each from the II Edition (having been 7 candidates for the Best Film Award on the I Edition).

Award ceremonies

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

Countries

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

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).