'A fantastic woman' sweeps the Platinum Awards

Sebastián Lelio's Chilean film wins five Platinum Ibero-American Cinema Awards for best film, direction, screenplay, actress and editing.

The Chilean-Spanish co-production a fantastic woman triumphs in the V edition of the Platino Awards, winning five statuettes. Sebastián Lelio's film wins Best Ibero-American Fiction Film; Best Direction for Sebastián himself, who also wins Best Screenplay with Gonzalo Maza; the performer Daniela Vega achieves Best Female Performance; and also Best Editing Direction for Soledad Salfate. The film adds these awards to the two already obtained by the public who also recognized the feature film and Daniela's work.

The ceremony held in Xcaret (Cancún, Mexico) honored another Chilean, actor Alfredo Castro, as Best Male Performance for his work in The Dogs, in a joint delivery with the feminine to demand a necessary equality in all areas.

The feature film by David Alonso and Enrique Gato, Tadeo Jones 2: The Secret of King Midas was awarded the Platinum Award for Best Animated Film; Gustavo Salmerón's Many Sons, a Monkey and a Castle won Platinum for Best Documentary Film and Summer 1993, by Carla Simón, won Platinum for Best Ibero-American Fiction First Feature.

The cinematographic record is completed The Mountain Range, Best Original Music (Alberto Iglesias), Exist which is won with Best Art Direction (Renata Pinheiro), Best Photography Direction (Rui Poças) and Best Sound Direction (Guido Berenblum) and big by Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño who obtains the award dedicated to Cinema and Education in Values.

The Mexican director, producer and screenwriter Eugenia Derbez was in charge of hosting a brilliant gala, broadcast by 18 television stations to more than 80 million homes, where entertainment and humor were perfectly intertwined, with clear allegations against inequality, the rejection of difference and the lack of opportunities. In it, the actress, but also director, producer and trainer of actors, Adriana Barraza, was recognized with the Platinum Honor for her extensive and award-winning career, as well as for her teaching role; The Mexican did not hesitate to announce the award to all her students and launched a strong quote for the new generations: “he who does not have the strength to sustain a dream, will not have the strength to sustain his life.”

The event with more than 270 accredited journalists from all parts of Latin America once again puts the focus on the film industry in this area and the great global interest that its cinema arouses. Great stars such as Rob Schneider, Edward James Olmos, Salvador del Solar, Ernesto Alterio, Joaquim de Almeida, Jon Kortajarena and Dulce María completed a luxury lineup where the performances of Maná, Malú, Morat, Áxel and the rappers Aczino and Arkano also shined.

The Ministry of Time, Platinum Award for best miniseries or television series

Episodic productions have an increasingly greater weight within the audiovisual industry and that is why the Platino Awards continue to expand the number of categories in this section, including in this edition the awards for actors.

The Spanish The Ministry of Time triumphs in this edition as best miniseries or teleseries, while actress Blanca Suárez takes the best female performance for Las Chicas del Cable. In the men's section, which was awarded jointly with the women's section as in cinema, Julio Chávez was the winner by The teacher.

The Platinum Ibero-American Cinema Awards promoted by EGEDA (Audiovisual Producers' Rights Management Entity), with FIPCA (Ibero-American Federation of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Producers), and with the support of the Ibero-American Film Academies and Institutes, Latin Artis and the AISGE Foundation, have been working since their first edition in 2014 on their main objective, which is none other than to achieve the promotion and dissemination of cinema Ibero-American and that the successes achieved in the most prestigious festivals also translate into excellent results in commercial theaters and that our cinema has the distribution it deserves.

2018 Platinum Awards Winners

Best Ibero-American Fiction Film
A FANTASTIC WOMAN

Best Address
A FANTASTIC WOMAN SEBASTIÁN LELIO

Best Screenplay
A FANTASTIC WOMAN SEBASTIÁN LELIO, GONZALO MAZA

Best Original Music
THE ALBERTO IGLESIAS CORDILLERA

Best Male Performance
THE DOGS ALFREDO CASTRO

Best Female Performance
A FANTASTIC WOMAN DANIELA VEGA

Best Animated Film
TADEO JONES 2. THE SECRET OF KING MIDAS

Best Documentary Film
MANY CHILDREN, A MONKEY AND A CASTLE

Platinum Award for Best Ibero-American Fiction First Feature
SUMMER 1993

Best Assembly Direction
A FANTASTIC WOMAN SOLEDAD SALFATE

Best Art Direction
ZAMA RENATA PINHEIRO

Best Cinematography
ZAMA RUI POÇAS

Best Sound Direction
ZAMA GUIDO BERENBLUM

Platinum Award for Cinema and Education in Values
BIG

Best Ibero-American Cinematographic Miniseries or Teleseries
THE MINISTRY OF TIME

Best Male Performance in a Miniseries or Teleseries
MASTER JULIO CHÁVEZ

Best Female Performance in a Miniseries or Teleseries
THE GIRLS OF CABLE BLANCA SUÁREZ