The Snow Society, by Juan Antonio Bayona, leads the nominations in the film section of the 11th edition of the Platino Awards with seven nominations, followed by Cerrar los ojos, by Víctor Erice, and El conde, by Pablo Larraín, both with six. In the television section, the favorites are the Argentine productions Iosi, the repentant spy and División Palermo with four candidates each. With three, they are followed by the second season of the Spanish 30 Coins, the Chilean The Thousand Days of Allende and the Argentinian Love After Love, as announced by the organization in a statement. The awards will be announced at a gala to be held on April 20 at the Gran Tlachco Xcaret Theater in Riviera Maya.
The emotional and blockbuster story about the tragedy of the Andes of Bayonne, winner of 12 Goya awards and which was nominated for the Oscars for best international film and makeup and hairstyling, will be nominated for Platinum for best film, direction, male performance (Enzo Vogrincic ), supporting actor (Matías Recalt), photography direction, editing, and sound. For its part, the ode to cinema, memory and time directed by maestro Erice has nominations for best film, supporting actor (José Coronado), supporting actress (Ana Torrent), screenplay, art direction and direction of Photography. At the Goya he only won the big head for supporting actor for Coronado out of the eleven nominations he was nominated for.
The Count, the Netflix satire in which Larraín portrays the dictator Augusto Pinochet as a bloodthirsty vampire, aspires to Platinum in the sections of best direction, leading actor (Jaime Vadell), supporting actress (Antonia Zegers), screenplay, art direction and sound.
As best film, along with The Snow Society and Close Your Eyes, appear Los criminales, by the Argentine Rodrigo Moreno, and Tótem, by the Mexican Lila Avilés. While the award for best director will be competed for by Bayona, Larraín, Avilés and Isabel Coixet, for Un amor. As an Ibero-American comedy, there are the Spanish works Bajoterapia, by Gerardo Herrero, and I'm loving you madly, by Alejandro Marín; the Ecuadorian Los wanabis, by Santiago Paladines, and Norma, by the Argentine Santiago Giralt.
As best actress, the Platinum will be competed for by the Spanish Malena Alterio (Goya for Nobody Sleeps), Carolina Yuste (They Know That) and Laia Costa (Un Amor), the Argentine Dolores Fonzi (Blondi) and the Cuban Lola Amores (The Woman wild). In the men's section there are the Mexican Damián Alcázar (The Monroy Case), the Uruguayan Enzo Vogrincic (The Snow Society), the Argentine Marcelo Subiotto (Puan), the Chilean Vadell and the Spanish David Verdaguer (Goya for Saben That).
The award for best animated film will be competed for by the Spanish 'Robot Dreams', by Pablo Berger (nominated for the Oscar in the category); 'They shot the pianist', by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal, and 'The sultana's dream', by Isabel Helguera, the Mexican 'Home is somewhere else' (Carlos Hagerman and Jorge Villalobos), and the Portuguese 'Nayola', by José Miguel Ribeiro.
As a documentary, the favorite is 'Infinite Memory', by Chilean Maite Alberdi, which was also nominated for an Oscar. An award for which the Argentine 'The Judgment', by Ulises de la Orden, is also nominated; the Spanish 'The memory of cinema, a film about Fernando Méndez-Leite', by Moisés Salama, and the Mexican 'A pack called Ernesto', by Everado González.
For best debut feature, five films are nominated that have greatly surprised by their quality: the Spanish '20,000 species of bees' (Estibaliz Urresola), the Argentine 'Blondi' (Dolores Fonzi), the Puerto Rican 'La pecera' (Glorimar Marrero), the Chilean 'The Colonists' (Felipe Gálvez), the Venezuelan 'Simón' (Diego Vicentini' and the Costa Rican 'I have electric dreams' (Valentina Maurel).
As far as the television categories are concerned, Argentina dominates with 'Iosi, the repentant spy' and 'División Palermo' leading the way with four nominations. Iosi is nominated for best series, creator (Daniel Burman), leading actor (Gustavo Bassani) and supporting actress (Minerva Casero). And 'División Palermo' for creator and protagonist (both nominations for Santiago Korovsky), supporting actor (Daniel Hendler) and supporting actress (Pilar Gamboa).
Candidates for best series are the Argentine 'Iosi' and 'Barrabrava', the Spanish 'The Body on Fire' - for which Ursula Corberó is also nominated for best actress -, and the Chilean 'The Thousand Days of Allende' - which tells also with the nominations of Alfredo Castro as male lead and Aline Küppenheim (best actress). The Spanish Javier Cámara, for season 2 of 'Rapa', completes the nominations for best actor, and the Spanish Lola Dueñas ('La mesías') and the Argentine Micaela Riera ('Love after love'), to those of best actress.
Nominated for best series creator are Burman, Korovsky, Juan Pablo Kolodziej ('Love After Love') and Alex de la Iglesia ('30 Coins').
The Platino Awards are promoted by EGEDA (Audiovisual Producers' Rights Management Entity) and bring together the great talents of the industries of the 23 Ibero-American countries to praise the most outstanding productions and creators of each year with twenty-three awards and one Platinum Honor Award that this year will go to the Argentine actress Cecilia Roth.
