Walter Salles‘ I’m Still Here was the big winner at Madrid’s Platino Awards on Sunday night, honoring the best of Ibero-American film and television.
The Brazilian filmmaker took home the best director and best Ibero-American fiction film awards, while the Oscar-nominated Fernanda Torres won best actress for her performance.
Elsewhere, Daniel Fanego won the best supporting actor performance for Luis Ortega’s Kill the Jockey, and Clara Segura of El 47 won in the equivalent category for women. Eduard Fernández took home the best actor prize for his role in Marco.
There were also two wins for Pedro Almodóvar’s English-language debut, The Room Next Door, as Edu Grau and Alberto Iglesias won the best cinematography and best original score awards, respectively.
Eva Longoria, star of Desperate Housewives and Only Murders in the Building, picked up the prestigious Platino honorary award — past recipients of which include Benicio Del Toro, Antonio Banderas and Diego Luna — from fellow Latina Sofía Vergara, who made a surprise appearance.
Vergara told Longoria: “Eva, you’re the best. Everything you’ve done, with your foundation, for the children you’ve helped, for the people you’ve helped — I mean, you deserve this award.”
Longoria told the Platino Awards crowd: “It’s a great honor for me to receive this recognition. I love being here, especially in this country that I’ve loved so much for many years. Whenever I’m here, in Spain, I feel at home, I feel happy, I feel … I feel protected, honestly. Spain has always treated me very well, me and my whole family.”
“I don’t know if you knew, I was born in Texas. I’m Mexican-American. I have Spanish blood in my veins,” she continued. “And I love the connection between Mexico and Spain. … And since I started my career in Hollywood, in ’98, I’ve had a dream of proudly representing my countries, and honoring Hispanic women in particular.
“Because Hispanics are always something more. We are more hardworking, we are more passionate, we are more human. We are good people. I believe that today in the world more than ever, more than ever, we need that — good people. And that’s what we are in Hollywood.”
A full list of 2025 Platino Awards winners follows.
Best Ibero-American Fiction Film
I’m Still Here, Walter Salles
Best Ibero-American Comedy Film
Idol Affair, Teresa Bellón and César F. Calvillo
Best Director
Walter Salles, I’m Still Here
Best Supporting Actor
Daniel Fanego, Kill the Jockey
Best Supporting Actress
Clara Segura, El 47
Best Screenplay
Amelia Mora and Arantxa Echevarría, The Infiltrator
Best Original Music
Alberto Iglesias, The Room Next Door
Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Television Series
Claudio Cataño, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Best Performance by an Actress in a Miniseries or Television Series
Candela Peña, The Asunta Case
Best Performance by an Actor in a Miniseries or Television Series
Jairo Camargo, One Hundred Years of Solitude
Best Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Television Series
Carmen Maura, Land of Women
Best Animated Film
Black Butterflies, David Baute
Best Documentary Feature
The Echo, Tatiana Huezo
Best Ibero-American Fiction Debut
The Dog Thief, Vinko Tomicic
Best Editing Direction
Victoria Lammers, The Night Shift
Best Art Direction
Eugenio Caballero and Carlos Y. Jacques, Pedro Páramo
Best Cinematography
Edu Grau, The Room Next Door
Best Sound Direction
Diana Sagrista, Alejandro Castillo, Eva Valiño, Antonin Dalmasso, Second Prize
Best Cinema and Education in Values
Memoirs of a Burning Body, Antonella Sudasassi
Best Ibero-American Miniseries or Television Series
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Best Male Performance
Eduard Fernández, Marco
Best Female Performance
Fernanda Torres, I’m Still Here
Best Creator of a Miniseries or Television Series
Vicente Amorim, Fernando Coimbra, Luiz Bolognesi and Patrícia Andrade, Senna
Platinum Honor Award 2025
Eva Longoria
