Monday, April 28, 2025, 00:39 | Updated 01: 05h.
It could not be. Despite leaving with eleven nominations, ‘La Infiltrada’ by Arantxa Echevarría, the film that tells the adventures of a police officer who managed to infiltrate the ETA terrorist band for eight years, had to settle for two awards: Best script, of Echevarría and Amèlia Mora herself, and best assembly address, for Victoria Lammers.
And it is that the great winner of the night was ‘Ainda Esou here’ (‘I’m still here’), a film that had already taken the Oscar for the best international film. Walter Salles’s film not only took the platinum for the best Ibero -American fiction film, but also the statuettes for the best direction already better feminin interpretation for its protagonist, Fernanda Torres. The other great winner of the night was ‘one hundred years of solitude’, the Netflix series. The adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s novel was made with the best miniseries or teleserie awards, best actor (Claudio Cataño) and best cast actor (Jairo Camargo).
Anyway, it was not a sterile gala for Spanish productions. On the contrary. Eduard Fernández, who already made the Goya for the best male interpretation by ‘Marco’, repeated here with Platinum for his work embodying this false prisoner of a Nazi concentration camp; While his partner in ‘The 47’, Clara Segura, took the platinum for the best female cast interpretation. In a message that his partner Oscar de la Fuente, Segura, who gives life to a nun who taught to read hundreds of children and women, defended access to education «because it makes us freer, think and question and rebel against ultra -right policies based on fear. We were all foreigners at some point. The earth does not belong to us, it only accompanies us for a while, ”he shouted from the source. On the other hand, award for the best male cast interpretation went to the Argentine actor and director Daniel Fanego, who died last September at the age of 69, for his role in ‘El Jockey’, on a posthumous way. The award was collected by his son, Manuel, who thanked the Platinum Awards for the recognition of his father’s “great work”.
By the way, the absences were the usual tonic in this ceremony that was held at the IFEMA Municipal Palace in Madrid. Those who were were Teresa Bellón and César F. Calvillo, directors of the fun ‘Looking for Coque’, who took the platinum for the best Ibero -American fiction comedy. His producer, Beatriz Bodegas, went up to them to collect the award, explained that “making comedy is the most difficult” and highlighted the importance of independent cinema. “This film is 100% independent and this is very important because there begins the risk, it is committed to new talents and different stories,” he said.
The truth is that the night had started very well for Spanish productions. Thus, Carmen Maura took the platinum for the best female interpretation of distribution in miniseries or teleserie for her work in ‘Land of Women’ where he gives life to a woman with principles of senile dementia who fled fifty years ago from her people, La Muga, a small municipality in the province of Girona, to which she is forced to return. He went up to collect the Peace Vega Award, which read a Maura message in which he shared the prize with the other three nominees. “This is one of the four,” he said.
Candela Peña, on the other hand, took the platinum for the best female interpretation in miniseries or teleserie for her work as Rosario Porto in ‘The Asunta case’. «I feel grateful and honored for the amount of talent and spectacular works that have been in the series of Spain. I applaud our Latin power, multicultural and the diverse. Now I am working with an Argentine producer and I am convinced that we will interrelate more without having to justify it so much in the scripts, ”he predicted in a message they read on stage.
Another platinum with Spanish stamp were to the best original music for Alberto Iglesias for ‘The next room’, the second that the composer receives in the history of the awards after ‘Yuli’, the tape of Iciar Bollaín. Pedro Almodóvar’s film about the importance of deciding to decline when dying also received a second platinum at the best photography direction for Eduard Grau, which was on the other side of the puddle working in another film. “In convulsive times like these, making cinema is more relevant than ever,” he said in a message that a partner read.
The musical ‘Second Prize’, the film that tells a good part of the history of the planets, took the platinum to the best sound direction, while the Spanish -Spanish co -production Its director, the Tenerife David Baute, asked not to forget the climatic refugees and make this “more habitable world.”
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