Los Premios Platino 2023 encumbran a ‘Argentina, 1985’ y ‘Noticia de un secuestro’

The film 'Argentina, 1985' and the Colombian-Chilean series 'News of a Kidnapping' have won the highest awards of the Premios Platino 2023: Best Ibero-American Fiction Film and Best Fiction Cinematographic Miniseries or Teleseries.

The team of Argentina, 1985 picked up five awards during the evening: Best Ibero-American Fiction Film, Best Male Performance for Ricardo Darin, Best Art Direction, Best Screenplay and Platinum for Cinema and Education in Values. The Colombian-Chilean series followed closely with four awards News of a kidnapping with four awards: Best Fiction Cinematographic Miniseries or Teleseries; Best Series Creator for the Chilean Andrés Wood; Best Female Performance in a Miniseries or Teleseries for the Colombian actress Cristina Umaña, and Best Female Supporting Performance in a Miniseries or Teleseries for the also Colombian Majida Issa.

Another of the standout productions of the evening was The beasts, a Spanish film that won four awards: Best Direction for Rodrigo Sorogoyen; Best Sound Direction for Aitor Berenguer, Fabiola Ordoyo and Yasmina Praderas; Best Editing Direction for Alberto del Campo and Best Male Performance for Luis Zahera.

The new category of the awards, Best Ibero-American Fiction Comedy, ended with the victory of Competencia oficial, of Mariano Cohn and Gastón Duprat. Furthermore, the Cuban film The Padilla case, by Pavel Giroud, was the first Cuban production to win the award for Best Documentary Film. For its part, the Chilean 1976, film directed by Manuela Martelli, won the award for Best Ibero-American Fiction First Feature, while the recognition for Best Animated Film went to the Mexican film Eagle and Jaguar: The legendary warriors, by Mike R. Ortiz. Also outstanding was the turnout of Main, Bolivian film winner of two awards that make history for the country: best Original Music for Cergio Prudencio, and Best Cinematography for Barbara Alvarez They are the first that Bolivia has achieved since the first edition of the awards.

Los Platinum They also recognized the Spanish Laia Costa for her role in Five beads with the award for Best Female Performance, and Susi Sánchez, her co-star, with the statuette for Best Female Supporting Performance. The Argentine Guillermo Francella won the award for Best Male Performance in a Miniseries or Teleserie by the manager, and Alejandro Awada, also Argentine, won the award for Best Male Supporting Performance in a Miniseries or Teleseries. by Iosi, the repentant spy.

Finally, Benicio del Toro was one of the stars of the night when he received from the hands of Enrique Cerezo, president of the Premios Platino, the Honor Award, who described him as “one of the greatest Latin talents.” In his thoughtful speech, Del Toro did not hesitate to value the legacy of Ibero-American cinematography that has preceded the current success of Spanish and Portuguese-speaking audiovisuals: “I feel honored to be here and follow in the footsteps of the men and women, artists of our roots who have transmitted their wisdom and that they had their own doubts before. Even so, they are the ones who have illuminated my path, and as Latinos we have a very big responsibility, not only when choosing a project but also when it comes to protecting their identity, which is protecting ourselves.”

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