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 | |
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Current: 11th 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 awarded | 5 April 2014 |
Website | premiosplatino |
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
Discontinued categories
- Platino Award for Best Ibero-American Co-Production
Award ceremonies
The following is a listing of all Platino Awards ceremonies since 2014.
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).
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.
See also
References
External links
- (in Spanish) Official Premios Platino website