Ricardo Darín and Argentina, 1985 won the Platino Awards

Ricardo Darín and Argentina, 1985 won the Platino Awards of the Ibero-American audiovisual industry, which were delivered this Saturday in Madrid. The feature film directed by Santiago Miter on the trial of the military commanders of the last dictatorship in Argentina (1976-83), won the award for best Ibero-American fiction film of the year in this tenth edition of the Platinum Awards.

Besidesthe film won another four trophies for best script, art direction, value film award and best actor, the honor that fell to Ricardo Darín. After collecting the trophy at the IFEMA conference center in the Spanish capital, Darín dedicated the award “to the incredible humanity of a man named Julio César Strassera”, in reference to the prosecutor who gives life in the film.

These awards are added to the many others that this film has garnered, which delves into the investigation of the prosecutor Strassera (Darín) and his team of the horror lived in the South American country during the dictatorship. He had previously won, among others, the Golden Globe for the best non-English speaking film and the Goya for the best Latin American film. However, in March he was left without the Oscar for best international filmwhen falling before the German “All Quiet on the Front”.

The other big winner of the night was the Spanish film “As Bestas”a rural drama directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen from Madrid, which won the awards for best direction, supporting actor (Luis Zahera), sound and editing.

At the gala, presented by the Colombian Carolina Gaitán, the Mexican Omar Chaparro and the Spanish Paz Vega, the Colombian series “Noticia de un secuestro” dominated the awards in the television sections. The production inspired by the homonymous book by Gabriel Garcia Marqueza story about the fight against drug cartels in the 1990s, won the statuette for the best Ibero-American television series of the year.

Its creators, the Chilean Andrew Wood and the Colombian Rodrigo Garcia, son of Garcia Marquez, and a third Platinum for this production was awarded to his protagonist, the Colombian actress Cristina Umaña.

The Platinum of Honor for this edition was collected by Puerto Rican Benicio del Toro, who in his speech said that it was “an honor” to be honored in Madrid, “the capital of the Hispanic world.” Del Toro stated that “although things have changed a bit” in Hollywood, “this problem still exists today.” that the roles that Latino actors receive They tend to show stereotypes. In any case, the actor said that when he has had to play characters like this, he has always sought their “humanity and complexity” when representing them.

This year, productions from twelve countries competed in the different sections: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Paraguay, Dominican Republic and Uruguay. The Platinos, which until now have had galas in Spain, Panama, Mexico and Uruguay, are promoted by the Spanish Audiovisual Producers Rights Management Entity (EGEDA), the Ibero-American Federation of Film and Audiovisual Producers (FIPCA) and the Academies and Ibero-American film institutes. The awards, which were first awarded in 2014, alternately take place in Latin America and Spain.