I’m Nonetheless Right here, the primary Brazilian movie to win the worldwide function movie Oscar, added the Platino Award for greatest Ibero-American movie to its trophy cupboard on the Platino Awards in Madrid on Sunday evening.
Brazilian grasp Walter Salles earned greatest director and Oscar-nominated Golden Globe winner Fernanda Torres was named greatest actress because the movie took high prizes at IFEMA Municipal Palace.
The Brazilian (Videofilmes, RT Options) and French (MACT Productions) co-production follows a mom’s battle to assist her household after her husband disappears throughout the Brazilian dictatorship within the Nineteen Seventies. Goodfellas represents gross sales and Sony Footage Classics distributed within the US, the place it earned greater than $6m.
In February, I’m Nonetheless Right here grossed slightly over $600,000 in Spain by means of Vértigo Movies, marking the most important foreign-language movie opening of the yr so far and the most important ever by a Latin American movie, surpassing Salles’ 2004 basic The Motorbike Diaries.
Arantxa Echevarría’s political thriller Undercover entered the race with 11 nominations and finally received greatest screenplay and modifying. Echevarría beforehand received a Goya for her debut function Carmen & Lola in 2019, which was additionally nominated for the Golden Digicam in Cannes.
Undercover has turn out to be the highest-grossing movie directed by a girl in Spanish historical past on $8.6m and tells the true story of a Spanish police officer who infiltrated the Basque terrorist group ETA. It’s based mostly on the lifetime of Aranzazu Berradre Marín. Bowfinger, Beta, Esto También Pasará, and Atresmedia produced. Movie Manufacturing unit handles gross sales.
Certainly one of Spain’s most revered actors, Eduard Fernández, received greatest actor for his efficiency in Marco, based mostly on the unlikely true story of Enric Marco, a person who falsely claimed to be a focus camp survivor. Produced by Spain’s Irusoin, Moriarti, and Atresmedia Cine, the movie was directed by Jon Garaño and Aitor Arregi, the filmmaking crew behind The Countless Trench and The Large.
The most effective first function award went to The Canine Thief by Chilean-Bolivian director Vinko Tomičić, who beforehand co-directed Cockroach with Francisco Hevia. The movie, which not too long ago received Finest Latin American Movie on the Málaga Pageant after premiering at Tribeca, follows an orphaned shoeshine boy in La Paz who steals the canine of his greatest consumer, a lonely tailor he sees as a father determine. Luxbox is dealing with worldwide gross sales.
Netflix’s One Hundred Years Of Solitude received greatest TV sequence and greatest actor for Claudio Cataño.
The variation of Gabriel García Márquez’s Nobel Prize-winning masterpiece chronicles the life and generations of a fictitious Colombian group and is one in every of Latin America’s most bold productions. The late creator’s sons, filmmaker Rodrigo García and Gonzalo García, are government producers on the eight-episode sequence. Manufacturing on Season Two is underway.
This yr, the Platino Awards partnered with Universo and Telemundo, bringing the ceremony’s broadcast to the USA. The Awards are promoted by EGEDA (Audiovisual Producers’ Rights Administration Entity) and FIPCA (Ibero-American Federation of Movie and Audiovisual Producers).
Mexican-American actress Eva Longoria obtained this yr’s Honorary Award, introduced in a shock look by her good friend Sofía Vergara. Longoria, whose tv credit embody Determined Housewives and Solely Murders within the Constructing, mirrored on the early challenges of her profession when she stated: “I used to be too Latin for US roles and too American for Latin ones […] Fortuitously, issues are altering. Audacity is altering — and audacity calls for variety.”
As introduced throughout the ceremony, subsequent yr’s version of the Platino Awards will happen in Mexico.
Full listing of 2025 Platino winners
Finest Ibero-American fiction movie
I’m Nonetheless Right here (Br-Fr)
Finest director
Walter Salles, I’m Nonetheless Right here (Br-Fr)
Finest actor
Eduard Fernández, Marco (Sp)
Finest actress
Fernanda Torres, I’m Nonetheless Right here (Br-Fr)
Finest ensemble actress
Clara Segura, The 47 (Sp)
Finest ensemble actor
Daniel Fanego, The Jockey (Arg-Mex-Sp)
Finest first movie
The Canine Thief, Vinko Tomičić (Chil)
Finest screenplay
Arantxa Echevarría, Amelia Mora, Undercover (Sp)
Finest cinematography
Edu Grau, The Room Subsequent Door (Sp-US)
Finest authentic music
Alberto Iglesias, The Room Subsequent Door (Sp-US)
Finest sound
Diana Sagrista, Alejandro Castillo, Eva Valiño, Antonin Dalmasso, Saturn Return (Sp)
Finest modifying
Victoria Lammers, Undercover (Sp)
Finest artwork route
Eugenio Caballero, Carlos Y. Jacques, Pedro Páramo (Mex)
Movie & training in values
Recollections Of A Burning Physique (Sp-CR)
Finest animation movie
Black Butterflies, David Baute (Sp)
Finest Ibero-American comedy
Idol Affair, Teresa Bellón, César F. Calvillo (Sp)
Finest documentary
The Echo, Tatiana Huezo (Mex-Ger)
Function viewers award
Undercover (Sp)
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Finest fiction or documentary sequence
One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Col)
Finest miniseries or sequence creator
Vicente Amorim, Fernando Coimbra, Luiz Bolognesi Patrícia Andrade, Senna (Br)
Finest actor in a sequence or mini-series
Claudio Cataño, One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Col)
Finest actress in a sequence or mini-series
Candela Peña, The Asunta Case (Sp)
Ensemble Actor In A Sequence Or Mini-Sequence
Jairo Camargo, One Hundred Years Of Solitud (Col)
Ensemble actress in a sequence or mini-series
Carmen Maura, Land oO Girls (Sp)
TV Sequence viewers award
One Hundred Years Of Solitude (Col)
Honorary Platino
Eva Longoria.