'Roma' sweeps the 2019 Platinum Awards

The Mexican production has also won the award for Best Direction, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography and Best Sound Direction; adding 5 awards in the great night of Ibero-American cinema.

The VI Edition of the Platinum Awards has elevated the film Roma, directed by Alfonso Cuaron. The Mexican production has achieved the award for best Ibero-American film In addition to the Platinum Best Address, Best Screenplay, Best Cinematography y Best Sound Direction (Sergio Díaz, Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García).

In total, five awards for the big winner of the night that add to the reception that the film is having among the public and critics. Since its release, it has been named Best Foreign Language Film at the latest edition of the Oscars and has won the BAFTA Award for Best Film, among others.

The gala of the VI edition of the Platino, in which the most Latin rhythms of Sofía Reyes, Lali or Malía have been played, has been loaded with numerous nods to equality. One of them; the moment when they announced the Best Performance Award. Antonio de la Torre for El Reino and Ana Brun for Las Herederas went up on stage together to collect their statuettes. The Paraguayan actress was awarded at the Berlin Festival for her work in this film.

The same thing happened with category Best Performance in a Miniseries or Teleseries. Two awards given in unison in the paras Cecilia Suarez by The House of Flowers and the actor Diego Luna, for his role in Narcos: Mexico. Recognition for Spain in the category of Best Ibero-American Cinematographic Miniseries or Teleseries. The award was for Madrid burns, directed by Paco Leon.

One of the great moments experienced in the ceremony, presented by Santiago Segura and Cecilia Suárez, was starred by the artist Raphael, who has received the Platinum Honor. Enrique Cerezo, executive president of the Platino Awards, presented him with the statuette on the artist's big night, whom he defined as “the ambassador of Ibero-America.”

Raphael, visibly moved, collected the Platinum in this land that he considers his second home. In addition, we enjoyed his voice and talent, since the artist performed I am That, one of his most beloved songs with which he managed to raise the entire theater audience.

At the gala, broadcast by 21 television stations and broadcast live throughout Spain and Latin America, big names from the Ibero-American audiovisual world gathered. The awards have continued for Marcelo Martinessi's film, The Heirs, awarded as Best Ibero-American Fiction First Feature.

The highest-grossing production on Spanish cinemas in 2018, Champions of Javier Fesser, come home with him Platinum for Cinema and Education in Values. A category whose creation has been “a complete success” according to producer Luis Manso.

Spectators from the five continents have followed the gala on television, in which the jury has decided that the Best Animated Film of the Platinum 2019 is One more day alive, by Raúl de la Fuente and Damián Nenow, selected at the Cannes Film Festival and winner of numerous awards, such as the Audience Award at the San Sebastián International Festival.

A meeting with Culture covered by more than 300 journalists in which The Silence of Others, by Robert Bahar and Almudena Carracedo has been chosen Best Documentary Film. The Spanish-American co-production collected the Goya just a few months ago in Spain. Just a few hours ago, the general director of the Platinum Awards for Ibero-American cinema, Miguel Angel Benzal, announced a decision by the Hollywood Film Academy that will significantly support Ibero-American cinema: the film that won Platinum for Best Documentary will compete directly to be nominated for the Oscars.

The Award for Best Original Music has been for July. The OST of Iciar Bollain's latest film is from Alberto Iglesias. For their part, the technical teams have also been recognized for giving Ibero-American Cinema the value it deserves. In Art Direction, the winner was the Colombian Summer Birds (Angélica Perea). In Better Assembly Direction, the winner has been The Kingdom (Alberto del Campo).

Once again, the night of the Platino Awards has become the major event for Ibero-American Cinema, with 23 countries represented that have gathered again in the Riviera Maya. The Platino Awards are promoted by EGEDA with FIPCA, and co-organized with Riviera Maya. They have the support of the Ibero-American Film Academies and Institutes, Latin Artis and the AISGE Foundation and sponsors such as Parque Xcaret, Hotel Xcaret México, Hard Rock Hotel, TNT, Iberia and Cirque du Soleil.

Winners VI Platinum Awards

Best Ibero-American Fiction Film

ROME. Alfonso Cuarón.

Best Address

ROME. Alfonso Cuarón.

Best Screenplay

ROME. Alfonso Cuarón.

Best Original Music

YULI. Alberto Iglesias.

Best Male Performance

THE KINGDOM. Antonio de la Torre.

Best Female Performance

THE HEIRS. Ana Brun.

Best Animated Film

ONE MORE DAY ALIVE

Best Documentary Film

THE SILENCE OF OTHERS

Best Ibero-American Fiction First Feature

THE HEIRS

Best Assembly Direction

THE KINGDOM. Alberto del Campo.

Best Art Direction

SUMMER BIRDS. Angelica Perea.

Best Cinematography

ROME. Alfonso Cuarón.

Best Sound Direction

ROME. Sergio Díaz, Skip Lievsay, Craig Henighan and José Antonio García.

Platinum Award for Cinema and Education in Values

CHAMPIONS.

Best Ibero-American Cinematographic Miniseries or Teleseries

MADRID BURNS.

Best Male Performance in a Miniseries or Teleseries

NARCOS: MEXICO. Diego Luna.

Best Female Performance in a Miniseries or Teleseries

THE HOUSE OF FLOWERS. Cecilia Suarez.