The Spanish film starring Javier Bardem the good boss and the Argentine series The kingdom They are the favorites to win the main awards at the Platinum Awards of the Ibero-American audiovisual world, which will be awarded this Sunday in Madrid.
the good bossa black comedy by Fernando León de Aranoa about an unscrupulous boss played by Javier Bardem, arrives with 11 nominations, including best fiction film of the year, director and best actor.
The feature film, Léon de Aranoa’s third collaboration with Bardem after Mondays in the sun (2002) and loving paul (2017), comes from winning six Goya Awards in February, including the best film of the year.
They also attend with ample possibilities of having a good night at the gala, which will take place in the congress center of the Spanish capital, Ifema, starting at 8:00 p.m. GMT, the Spanish maixabel Y parallel mothers, with 8 and 7 nominations respectively.
Both the first, a drama by Icíar Bollaín about the true story of the widow of a victim of the Basque separatist gang ETAlike the second, Pedro Almodóvar’s latest collaboration with his muse Penélope Cruz, compete for the best film and best direction awards.
On the Latin American side, the film Fire night by Salvadoran-Mexican director Tatiana Huezo, a drama about violence against women in a rural area of Mexico, with three nominations: best fiction film, director and supporting actress.
Channels, date and times to see the Platinum Awards ceremony, where Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem are the public’s favorites for ‘Parallel Mothers’
First feature film by documentary filmmaker Huezo, this film shot in the Sierra Gorda mountains with young people chosen thanks to a local casting, was awarded at the San Sebastian Festival for best Latin American film and received a special mention in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.
Argentina, Chile and Mexico, in the fight
In the television sections of this IX edition of the Platino Awards, which reward the most outstanding of the audiovisual world of Spain and Latin America, the Argentine series appears as a favorite The kingdomwith 6 candidates.
Claudia Piñeiro and Marcelo Piñeyro’s production about a vice-presidential candidate who must replace an aspiring president assassinated during the campaign, competes for the award for the best Ibero-American series of the year, against the Chilean Isabel and the mexicans Luis Miguel: The series Y Narcos: Mexico.
During the gala, the renowned Spanish actress Carmen Maura, star of films such as Women at the edge of a nervous attack, Ay Carmela! either Community, will receive the Honor Award for being “one of the fundamental faces of Spanish and Portuguese-speaking audiovisual and culture,” according to the organizers.
Like last year, the ceremony will be in person, in a Spain that since the end of March implemented a strategy to treat covid-19 as an endemic disease, comparable to the flu, thanks to the high vaccination rate of its population.
In 2020, the awards were announced on YouTube from Mexico due to the pandemic.
The Platinum Awards are promoted by the Spanish Entity for the Management of Rights of Audiovisual Producers (EGEDA), the Ibero-American Federation of Cinematographic and Audiovisual Producers (FIPCA) and the Ibero-American Film Academies and Institutes.
Since it made its debut in 2014 in Panama, this contest is held annually and alternatively in Spain and Latin America.
Source: Eluniverso
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