JA Bayona’s impressive film “The Snow Society” continued its winning streak on Saturday at the Platino Awards, winning the statuettes for best Ibero-American fiction film and adding a total of six awards, including best direction and best male performance for Enzo Vogrincic.
The film about the survivors of the 1972 plane crash in the Andes was the most decorated of the night and also won in the categories of editing, cinematography and sound direction.
With a total of four awards that included first fiction, screenplay and film, and education in values, “20,000 species of bees” by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, the story about a girl with a trans identity, was the second most awarded film of the night.
“It took us ten years because no one told us that a film with this budget was possible in Spanish. “Today, actors tour the world, filling theaters, and receive them like Hollywood stars,” said Bayona, when collecting the highest award of the night, according to a statement sent by the awards.
“Sometimes you have to do things differently to change the rules of the game. We have all the tools to change the rules of the game, to seduce the public to go see the films and we have the talent to do it.”
The Platino awards were added to its Oscar nomination in the foreign feature film category and the Goya and San Sebastian Festival awards that “The Snow Society” already has. The film was the most viewed film in Spanish on Netflix and the third most viewed of the year on the platform.
“Rarely does an award fit better with a film, a film shot in Argentina, Spain, Chile and Uruguay,” said Bayona when collecting the directing award, highlighting the support of the Platino Awards for the best of Ibero-American cinema.
Among other film awards of the night, Laia Costa from “Un amor” was the winner in the best female performance category. José Coronado from “Close Your Eyes” and Ane Gabarain from “20,000 Species of Bees” were recognized as best actor and supporting actress respectively.
“Barrabrava” triumphed as best cinematographic miniseries or teleseries. Other winning television productions were “Love after love”, the second season of “Iosi, the repentant spy”, “The messiah” and “The thousand days of Allende”.
Lola Dueñas from “La mesías” won the award for best female performance in a miniseries or television series and Alfredo Castro from “The Thousand Days of Allende” won the award for his male counterpart. The statuette for best supporting actress went to Carmen Machi while Andy Chango “Love After Love” was chosen as best supporting actor.
The 11th edition of the Platinum Awards was held for the third time at Xcaret Park, in the Riviera Maya, where it alternates its headquarters with Madrid. It featured musical numbers by David Bisbal, Monsieur Periné and Ángela Aguilar, as well as a tribute to the late Rocío Durcal for the 80th anniversary of her birth in the voice of Ana Mena.
The Platinums resonated quite a bit with the Oscars by rewarding three films nominated at the last Academy Awards. Pablo Berger’s moving animated film “Robot Dreams” (“My Robot Friend”) was crowned best animated film and also took home the award for best original score. The film “Infinite Memory”, about a patient with Alzheimer’s and his wife, directed by Maite Alberdi, won in the documentary film category, and the dark version of a vampiric Pinochet of “El conde” by Pablo Larraín in the category of art direction.
The award for best Ibero-American fiction comedy went to “Under therapy,” by Gerardo Herrero, about three couples summoned by their psychologist for group therapy that pushes them to wash their dirty laundry in public.
Argentine actress Cecilia Roth, star of “Hable con ella”, “Martín (Hache)” and “Un lugar en el mundo” received the Platinum Honor Award from Enrique Cerezo, president of the awards.
“We have to take care of our cinema, which is always in danger,” Roth said. “Cinema needs to be heard, not only because it is not always heard, but because it can cease to exist. Let us be attentive, let us resist.”
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2024-04-24 01:12:50
