These are the twenty Spanish films and series that aspire to the Platinum Awards

‘The Infinite Trench’, ‘While the War Lasts’ and ‘Pain and Glory’, Spanish favorites with the most nominations in the Platino Xcaret of Ibero-American Cinema.

Los Xcaret Platinum Awards have announced, this February 12, the twenty shortlisted for each category in its seventh edition, among which The infinite trench with ten candidates, followed by While the war lasts with nine and pain and glory With seven, they start as Spanish favorites. On March 18 in Los Angeles, the nominations for the gala will be made public, which will be held on May 3 at the Gran Tlachco Theater in Xcaret (Riviera Maya).

The films by Alejandro Amenábar, Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi, Jose Mari Goenaga and Pedro Almodóvar stand out for their presence in the greatest number of categories and continue their path towards Platinum for Best Ibero-American Fiction Film, while in the sections that reward performances in fiction feature films, Antonio Banderas has won a nomination for pain and glory, Antonio de la Torre and Belén Cuesta for The infinite trench, Greta Fernández by A thief's daughter, Karra Elejalde for While the War Lasts and Marta Nieto for Madre. Spanish actress María Valverde has also been shortlisted for her role in Spider, Chilean film co-produced with Argentina and Brazil.

They maintain options to be finalists for Platinum Best Documentary Film Ara Malikian, a life between the ropes by Nata Moreno, The painting de Andrés Sanz e Stories from our cinema by Antonio Resines and Ana Pérez-Lorente. As Best Animated Film could get nominated Buñuel in the turtle labyrinth by Salvador Simó, Elcano and Magellan's first trip around the world by Ángel Alonso and Klaus by Sergio Pablos. the hole de Galder Castle-Urrutia, A thief's daughter by Belén Funes and Advantages of traveling by train by Aritz Moreno could compete as Best First Film.

For his part, the Platinum to Cinema and Education in Values, which rewards feature films for their ability to lead to reflection on social and human values, has in its nominations Seventeen by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo and Elisa and Marcela by Isabel Coixet.

The series

In the series categories, which this edition will award for the first time the Best Male and Female Supporting Performance in a Miniseries or Teleseries, they continue their path towards the award The Money Heist y Paquita Salas, with four candidates each, The neighbor y perfect life with three or Hierro with two.

The performers Adrián Pino, Clara Lago and Quim Gutiérrez could also get their nomination for The Neighbor; Miguel Ángel Silvestre for On Death Row; Candela Peña for Hierro; Óscar Casas for Instinto; Alba Flores, Álvaro Morte and Úrsula Corberó for Money Heist; Jesús Carroza for The Plague; Belén Cuesta, Brays Efe and Yolanda Ramos for Paquita Salas; Enric Auquer and Leticia Dolera for Vida Perfect and Javier Cámara for Vota Juan.

The Executive Committee of the first global audiovisual awards in Spanish and Portuguese has announced the candidacies decided with the advice of an international jury made up of prominent personalities from the film industry, arts and Ibero-American culture. This selection is the voting phase prior to the publication of the four finalists in each section, which will take place on March 18 in the city of Los Angeles (California, USA).