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Platino Awards 2023: ‘Argentina 1985,’ ‘News of a Kidnapping’

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Santiago Mitre’s “Argentina, 1985” and “News of a Kidnapping,” created by Andrés Wood and Rodrigo García, swept the top prizes for best picture on Saturday night at the 2023 Platino Awards, in a sign of how the global streamers – here Amazon Studios and Prime Video – have lured top-of-their-class talent in Latin America.

One highlight of the ceremony, dedicated to films and TV shows in the Spanish-speaking world, was Benicio del Toro’s acceptance speech of a honorary Platino in which he reflected on being typecast for many years in Hollywood as a Latino actor. 

“If I had to play stereotypes, I tried to find the character’s humanity, a sense of complicity, so that audiences felt what my character felt and whilst they’re watching, don’t forget who I am and where I come from.,” he said. “What’s important is to share more than be divided,” he added. 

Del Toro was received with a standing ovation by an audience made up of some of the best actors in Spain, which hung on his every word. 

Directed by Mitre, who broke out to attention with “The Student,” then conquered Cannes with “Paulina,” the Academy Award-nominated “Argentina, 1985,” produced by Amazon Studios, Infinity Hill, Mitre’s label Unión de los Rios and star Ricardo Darín’s Kenya Films swept best picture, screenplay (Mitre, Mariano Llinás) actor (Darín), among five awards.

Commissioned by Prime Video in 2020, in the same funding round that included “Iosi, the Repentant Spy,” “News of a Kidnapping” scooped best series, creators (Wood, García), series actress (Cristina Umaña) and supporting actress (Majida Issa). Stuart Ford’s AGC Studios and Chile’s Invercine & Wood produce. 

It may or may not be a coincidence that both titles, as well as Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s “The Beasts,” which swept four prizes including best director, talk about how individuals or institutions – the Colombian senator husband of an abduction victim in “News,” Darin’s crusading public prosecutor in “Argentina, 1985,” a French couple in deep Galicia in “The Beasts” – confront violence, whether the institutionalised torture and murder under Argentina’s Junta,  endemic drug gang coercion in  “News” and wounded machismo in “The Beasts.”

“Thank you to the thousands and thousands of Colombians who, silently, without any show, try to make peace and a country, despite all the obvious difficulties,” said Umana.

“Memory is important. We can’t allow violence to be the innate solution in any part of the world,” said Infinity Hill’s, Axel Kuschevatzky, a producer of “Argentina, 1985.” 

In other Awards highlights, Spain’s Laia Costa and Susi Sánchez  repeated their Goya plaudits taking best film actress and supporting actress as daughter and mother in “Lullaby.”

FILM

Best Feature

“Argentina, 1985” (Argentina)

Director

Rodrigo Sorogoyen, “The Beasts”

Lead Performance 

Laia Costa, “Lullaby”

Ricardo Darín, “Argentina, 1985”

Screenplay

Mariano Llinás, Santiago Mitre, “Argentina, 1985”

First Feature

“1976” (Chile, Argentina)

Best Feature Comedy

“Official Competition,” (Argentina, Spain)

Original Score 

Sergio Prudencio, “Utama” 

Supporting Role Performance 

Susi Sanchez, “Lullaby” (Spain)

Luis Zahera, “The Beasts” (Spain, France)

Animated Feature

“The Eagle and the Jaguar: the Legendary Warriors” (Mexico)

Documentary Best Feature

“El Caso Padilla,” (Cuba, Spain)

Editing 

Alberto del Campo, “The Beasts”

Art Direction 

Micaela Saiegh, “Argentina, 1985)

Cinematography

Barbara Álvarez, “Utama”

Sound Direction

Aitor Berenguer, Fabiola Ordoyo, Yasmina Praderas, “The Beasts”

Film & Education In Values

“Argentina, 1985” (Argentina, U.S)

HONORARY AWARD

Benicio del Toro

TV

Best Series Or Mini-Series

“News of a Kidnapping” (Colombia, Chile, U.S.)

Best Series Or Mini-Series Creator

Andrés Wood, Rodrigo García, “News of a Kidnapping”

Actor In A Series Or Mini-Series 

Guillermo Francella, “The One in Charge”

Actress In A Series Or Mini-Series

Cristina Umaña, “News of a Kidnapping”

Supporting Actor In A Series Or Mini-Series

Alejandro Awada, “Iosi, The Regretful Spy”

Supporting Actress In A Series Or Mini-Series

Majida Issa, “News of a Kidnapping”





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