Platino Award for Best Documentary
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).
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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).
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• Name — Platino Award for Best Documentary • Awarded For — Best Documentary of the Year • Presenter — Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA), Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA) • Country — Ibero-America • Holder — Apocalypse in the Tropics (2026) • Website — premiosplatino.com 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
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. Brazilian films The Salt of the Earth (2015) and The Edge of Democracy (2020) and Chilean films The Mole Agent (2021) and The Eternal Memory (2024), all won the Platino Award and have received a nomination for the 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.
2010s
2010s
• Year — English title — Original title — Director — Country • 2014 (1st) — Con la Pata Quebrada — Diego Galán — ' • Cuates de Australia — | Everardo González • La Eterna Noche de las Doce Lunas — |Priscilla Padilla — • O Dia que Durou 21 Anos — |Camilo Tavares • Sigo Siendo (Kachkaniraqmi) — |Javier Corcuera — • 2015 (2nd) — The Salt of the Earth — O Sal da Terra — Wim Wenders & Juliano Ribeiro Salgado — ' • Who is Dayani Cristal? — ¿Quién es Dayani Cristal? — Marc Silver • El Vals de los Inútiles — Edison Cájas — • Born in Gaza — Nacido en Gaza — Hernán Zin • Paco de Lucía: La Búsqueda — Francisco Sánchez Varela • 2016 (3rd) — The Pearl Button — El botón de nácar — Patricio Guzmán — • Chicas Nuevas 24 Horas — Mabel Lozano — • Beyond My Grandfather Allende — |Allende mi abuelo Allende — | Marcia Tambutti Allende — • The Propaganda Game — |Álvaro Longoria • Tea Time — La once — |Maite Alberdi • 2017 (4th) — Born in Syria — Nacido en Siria — Hernán Zin — ' • Atrapados en Japón — | Vivienne Barry • Cinema Novo — |Eryk Rocha • Frágil Equilibrio — |Guillermo García López • It All Started at the End — Todo comenzó por el fin — |Luis Ospina • 2018 (5th) • Lots of Kids, a Monkey and a Castle — Muchos hijos, un mono y un castillo — Gustavo Salmerón — ' • Ejercicios de Memoria — | Paz Encina — • Dancing Beethoven — |Arantxa Aguirre • El Pacto de Adriana — |Lissette Orozco • The Grown-Ups — Los niños — |Maite Alberdi • 2019 (6th) • The Silence of Others — El silencio de los otros — Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo — ' • Devil's Freedom — La libertad del diablo — | Everardo González • Camarón: Flamenco y Revolución — | Alexis Morante • Ruben Blades Is Not My Name — Yo no me llamo Rubén Blades — |Abner Benaim —
2020s
2020s
• Year — English title — Original title — Director — Country • 2020 (7th) — The Edge of Democracy — Democracia em Vertigem — Petra Costa — ' • Ara Malikian: Una Vida Entre las Cuerdas — Nata Moreno • El Cuadro — Andrés Sanz • Historias de Nuestro Cine — Ana Pérez-Lorente & Antonio Resines • 2021 (8th) — The Mole Agent — El agente topo — Maite Alberdi — Chile Spain • Babenco: Tell Me When I Die — Babenco: Alguém Tem que Ouvir o Coração e Dizer Parou — Bárbara Paz — Brazil • Cartas Mojadas — Paula Palacios — Spain • The Year of the Discovery — El año del descubrimiento — Luis López Carrasco • 2022 (9th) — A Última Floresta — Luiz Bolognesi — Brazil • 100 Días con La Tata — Miguel Ángel Muñoz — Spain • 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 • 2023 (10th) — The Padilla Affair — El caso Padilla — Pavel Giroud — Cuba Spain • Bosco — Alicia Cano Menoni — Uruguay • Eami — Paz Encina — Paraguay Mexico Argentina • My Imaginary Country — Mi país imaginario — Patricio Guzmán — Chile • The Silence of the Mole — El silencio del topo — Anaïs Taracena — Guatemala • 2024 (11th) — The Eternal Memory — La memoria infinita — Maite Alberdi — Chile • La Memoria del Cine, una Película sobre Fernando Méndez-Leite — Moisés Salama — Spain • A Wolfpack Called Ernesto — Una jauría llamada Ernesto — Everardo González — Mexico • The Trial — El juicio — Ulises de la Orden — Argentina • 2025 (12th) — The Echo — El eco — Tatiana Huezo — Mexico • The Flamenco Guitar of Yerai Cortés — La guitarra flamenca de Yerai Cortés — Antón Álvarez — Spain • The Lost Children — Los niños perdidos — Orlando von Einsiedel, Lali Houghton — Colombia • Reas — Lola Arias — Argentina • 2026 (13th) — Apocalypse in the Tropics — Apocalipse nos Trópicos — Petra Costa — Brazil • Under the Flags, the Sun — Bajo las banderas, el sol — Juanjo Pereira — Paraguay Argentina • Flores para Antonio — Elena Molina, Isaki Lacuesta — Spain • Afternoons of Solitude — Tardes de soledad — Albert Serra — Spain Portugal
Awards by nation
• Country — Awards (as of 2025) — Nominations (as of 2025) • 6 — 26 • 4 — 7 • 3 — 10 • 1 — 7 • 1 — 1 • 0 — 8 • 0 — 5 • 0 — 2 • 0 — 4 • 0 — 1 • 0 — 1 • 0 — 1 • 0 — 1 • 0 — 1 • 0 — 1
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