Platino Award for Best Documentary

Platino Award
for Best Documentary

Awarded for| Best Documentary of the Year
Country| Ibero-America
Presented by| Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA), Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA)
Currently held by| The Eternal Memory (2024)
Website| premiosplatino.com

The Platino Award for Best Documentary (Spanish: Premio Platino al mejor película documental) is one of the Platino Awards, Ibero-America's film awards, presented by the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) and the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA).

## History

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It was first presented in 2014, with the Spanish documentary Con la pata quebrada being the first recipient of the award. Spain holds the record of most wins in the category with six as well as most nominations with twenty-two, with at least one nominated Spanish film each edition.

Chilean films The Mole Agent and The Eternal Memory both won the Platino Award (in 2021 and 2024 respectively) and received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.

In the list below. the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

## Awards and nominations

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### 2010s

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Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country

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2014
(1st) | Con la Pata Quebrada | Diego Galán |  Spain
Cuates de Australia | Everardo González |  Mexico
La Eterna Noche de las Doce Lunas | Priscilla Padilla |  Colombia
Bolivia
O Dia que Durou 21 Anos | Camilo Tavares |  Brazil
Sigo Siendo (Kachkaniraqmi) | Javier Corcuera |  Peru
Spain
2015
(2nd) | The Salt of the Earth | O Sal da Terra | Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado |  Brazil
Who is Dayani Cristal? | ¿Quién es Dayani Cristal? | Marc Silver |  Mexico
El Vals de los Inútiles | Edison Cájas |  Chile
Argentina
Born in Gaza | Nacido en Gaza | Hernán Zin |  Spain
Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda | Francisco Sánchez Varela
2016
(3rd) | The Pearl Button | El botón de nácar | Patricio Guzmán |  Chile
Spain
Chicas Nuevas 24 Horas | Mabel Lozano |  Spain
Argentina
Paraguay
Colombia
Peru
Beyond My Grandfather Allende | Allende mi abuelo Allende | Marcia Tambutti Allende |  Chile
Mexico
The Propaganda Game | Álvaro Longoria |  Spain
Tea Time | La once | Maite Alberdi |  Chile
2017
(4th) | Born in Syria | Nacido en Siria | Hernán Zin |  Spain
Atrapados en Japón | Vivienne Barry |  Chile
Cinema Novo | Eryk Rocha |  Brazil
Frágil Equilibrio | Guillermo García López |  Spain
It All Started at the End | Todo comenzó por el fin | Luis Ospina |  Colombia
2018
(5th)
Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle | Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo | Gustavo Salmerón |  Spain
Ejercicios de Memoria | Paz Encina |  Paraguay
Argentina
Dancing Beethoven | Arantxa Aguirre |  Spain
El Pacto de Adriana | Lissette Orozco |  Chile
The Grown-Ups | Los niños | Maite Alberdi
2019
(6th)
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The Silence of Others | El silencio de los otros | Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo |  Spain
Devil's Freedom | La libertad del diablo | Everardo González |  Mexico
Camarón: Flamenco y Revolución | Alexis Morante |  Spain
Ruben Blades Is Not My Name | Yo no me llamo Rubén Blades | Abner Benaim |  Panama
Argentina
Colombia

### 2020s

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Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country

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2020
(7th)
[2] | The Edge of Democracy | Democracia em Vertigem | Petra Costa |  Brazil
Ara Malikian: Una Vida Entre las Cuerdas | Nata Moreno |  Spain
El Cuadro | Andrés Sanz
Historias de Nuestro Cine | Ana Pérez-Lorente & Antonio Resines
2021
(8th)
[3] | The Mole Agent | El agente topo | Maite Alberdi |  Chile
Spain
Babenco: Tell Me When I Die | Babenco: Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer Parou | Bárbara Paz |  Brazil
Cartas Mojadas | Paula Palacios |  Spain
The Year of the Discovery | El año del descubrimiento | Luis López Carrasco
2022
(9th)
[4][5] | A Última Floresta | Luiz Bolognesi |  Brazil
100 Días con La Tata | Miguel Ángel Muñoz |  Spain
Who's Stopping Us | Quién lo impide | Jonás Trueba
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It | Mariem Pérez Riera |  Puerto Rico
2023
(10th)
[6][7] | The Padilla Affair | El caso Padilla | Pavel Giroud |  Cuba
Spain
Bosco | Alicia Cano Menoni |  Uruguay
Eami | Paz Encina |  Paraguay
Mexico
Argentina
The Silence of the Mole | El silencio del topo | Anaïs Taracena |  Guatemala
My Imaginary Country | Mi país imaginario | Patricio Guzmán |  Chile
2024
(11th)
[8][9] | The Eternal Memory | La memoria infinita | Maite Alberdi |  Chile
La Memoria del Cine, una Película sobre Fernando Méndez-Leite | Moisés Salama |  Spain
The Trial | El juicio | Ulises de la Orden |  Argentina
A Wolfpack Called Ernesto | Una jauría llamada Ernesto | Everardo González |  Mexico

## Awards by nation

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Country  | Awards

(as of 2024)

| Nominations

(as of 2024)

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Spain | 6  | 23
Brazil | 3  | 6
Chile | 3  | 10
Cuba | 1  | 1
Mexico | 0  | 6
Argentina | 0  | 6
Colombia | 0  | 4
Peru | 0  | 2
Paraguay | 0  | 3
Bolivia | 0  | 1
Panama | 0  | 1
Puerto Rico | 0  | 1
Uruguay | 0  | 1
Guatemala | 0  | 1

## See also

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* Goya Award for Best Documentary
* Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature

## References

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1. ^ "'Roma' obtiene nueva nominaciones a los Premios Platino" (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 March 2019.
2. ^ "Premios Platino Xcaret 2020: "Dolor y gloria" y "La casa de papel", las grandes triunfadoras" (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 June 2020.
3. ^ "» Noticias » Cultura Cine 'El olvido que seremos' y 'La llorona' lideran las nominaciones a los Premios Platino". RTVE. 18 July 2021.
4. ^ "Listado de nominados de los premios Platino 2022". ABC (in Spanish). 31 March 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
5. ^ "'El buen patrón' reina en los Premios Platino del cine iberoamericano". rtve.es. 2 May 2022.
6. ^ Rosado, Ricardo (9 March 2023). "PREMIOS PLATINO 2023: 'ARGENTINA, 1985' ENCABEZA LAS NOMINACIONES DE LA X EDICIÓN". Fotogramas (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 March 2023.
7. ^ Sandoval, Pablo; Hopewell, John (22 April 2023). "Platino Awards Crown 'Argentina, 1985,' 'News of a Kidnapping' – and Amazon Studios, Prime Video". Variety.
8. ^ "'La sociedad de la nieve' lidera las nominaciones de los Premios Platino del cine iberoamericano". El País (in Spanish). 14 March 2024. Retrieved 16 March 2024.
9. ^ "La sociedad de la nieve, la gran ganadora de los Premios Platino 2024". CNN en Español (in Spanish). 21 April 2024. Retrieved 23 April 2024.

## External links

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* Official site

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Platino Awards

Ceremonies|

* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019
* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024

Film award categories|

* Best Ibero-American 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 Values Education

Television award categories|

* 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

Special Awards|

* Honorary Award

Retired awards|

* Best Ibero-American Co-Production

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