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 |
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
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 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
2010s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 (1st) |
Con la Pata Quebrada | Diego Galán |  Spain
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| Cuates de Australia | Everardo González |  Mexico
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| La Eterna Noche de las Doce Lunas | Priscilla Padilla |  Colombia Bolivia
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| O Dia que Durou 21 Anos | Camilo Tavares |  Brazil
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| Sigo Siendo (Kachkaniraqmi) | Javier Corcuera |  Peru Spain
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| 2015 (2nd) |
The Salt of the Earth | O Sal da Terra | Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado | Brazil
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| Who is Dayani Cristal? | ¿Quién es Dayani Cristal? | Marc Silver | Mexico
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| El Vals de los Inútiles | Edison Cájas |  Chile Argentina
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| Born in Gaza | Nacido en Gaza | Hernán Zin | Spain
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| Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda | Francisco Sánchez Varela | |||
| 2016 (3rd) |
The Pearl Button | El botón de nácar | Patricio Guzmán | Chile Spain
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| Chicas Nuevas 24 Horas | Mabel Lozano | Spain Argentina Paraguay Colombia Peru
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| Beyond My Grandfather Allende | Allende mi abuelo Allende | Marcia Tambutti Allende | Chile Mexico
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| The Propaganda Game | Álvaro Longoria | Spain
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| Tea Time | La once | Maite Alberdi | Chile
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| 2017 (4th) |
Born in Syria | Nacido en Siria | Hernán Zin | Spain
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| Atrapados en Japón | Vivienne Barry | Chile
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| Cinema Novo | Eryk Rocha | Brazil
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| Frágil Equilibrio | Guillermo García López | Spain
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| It All Started at the End | Todo comenzó por el fin | Luis Ospina | Colombia
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| 2018 (5th) | ||||
| Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle | Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo | Gustavo Salmerón | Spain
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| Ejercicios de Memoria | Paz Encina | Paraguay Argentina
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| Dancing Beethoven | Arantxa Aguirre | Spain
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| El Pacto de Adriana | Lissette Orozco | Chile
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| The Grown-Ups | Los niños | Maite Alberdi | ||
| 2019 (6th) [1] | ||||
| The Silence of Others | El silencio de los otros | Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo | Spain
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| Devil's Freedom | La libertad del diablo | Everardo González | Mexico
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| Camarón: Flamenco y Revolución | Alexis Morante | Spain
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| Ruben Blades Is Not My Name | Yo no me llamo Rubén Blades | Abner Benaim |  Panama Argentina Colombia
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2020s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (7th) [2] |
The Edge of Democracy | Democracia em Vertigem | Petra Costa | Brazil
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| Ara Malikian: Una Vida Entre las Cuerdas | Nata Moreno | Spain
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| 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
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| Babenco: Tell Me When I Die | Babenco: Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer Parou | Bárbara Paz | Brazil
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| Cartas Mojadas | Paula Palacios | Spain
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| The Year of the Discovery | El año del descubrimiento | Luis López Carrasco | ||
| 2022 (9th) [4][5] |
A Última Floresta | Luiz Bolognesi | Brazil
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| 100 Días con La Tata | Miguel Ángel Muñoz | Spain
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| 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
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| 2023 (10th) [6][7] |
The Padilla Affair | El caso Padilla | Pavel Giroud |  Cuba Spain
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| Bosco | Alicia Cano Menoni |  Uruguay
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| Eami | Paz Encina | Paraguay Mexico Argentina
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| The Silence of the Mole | El silencio del topo | Anaïs Taracena |  Guatemala
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| My Imaginary Country | Mi país imaginario | Patricio Guzmán | Chile
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| 2024 (11th) [8][9] |
The Eternal Memory | La memoria infinita | Maite Alberdi | Chile
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| La Memoria del Cine, una Película sobre Fernando Méndez-Leite | Moisés Salama | Spain
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| The Trial | El juicio | Ulises de la Orden | Argentina
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| A Wolfpack Called Ernesto | Una jauría llamada Ernesto | Everardo González | Mexico
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Awards by nation
| Country | Awards (as of 2024) |
Nominations (as of 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Spain
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6 | 23 |
| Brazil
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3 | 6 |
| Chile
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3 | 10 |
| Cuba
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1 | 1 |
| Mexico
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0 | 6 |
| Argentina
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0 | 6 |
| Colombia
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0 | 4 |
 Peru
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0 | 2 |
| Paraguay
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0 | 3 |
 Bolivia
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0 | 1 |
| Panama
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0 | 1 |
| Puerto Rico
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0 | 1 |
| Uruguay
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0 | 1 |
| Guatemala
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0 | 1 |
See also
- Goya Award for Best Documentary
- Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature
References
- ^ "'Roma' obtiene nueva nominaciones a los Premios Platino" (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ "Premios Platino Xcaret 2020: "Dolor y gloria" y "La casa de papel", las grandes triunfadoras" (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 June 2020.
- ^ "» Noticias » Cultura Cine 'El olvido que seremos' y 'La llorona' lideran las nominaciones a los Premios Platino". RTVE. 18 July 2021.
- ^ "Listado de nominados de los premios Platino 2022". ABC (in Spanish). 31 March 2022. Retrieved 2 April 2022.
- ^ "'El buen patrón' reina en los Premios Platino del cine iberoamericano". rtve.es. 2 May 2022.
- ^ Rosado, Ricardo (9 March 2023). "PREMIOS PLATINO 2023: 'ARGENTINA, 1985' ENCABEZA LAS NOMINACIONES DE LA X EDICIÓN". Fotogramas (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 March 2023.
- ^ Sandoval, Pablo; Hopewell, John (22 April 2023). "Platino Awards Crown 'Argentina, 1985,' 'News of a Kidnapping' – and Amazon Studios, Prime Video". Variety.
- ^ "'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.
- ^ "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.