Platino Award for Best Actor

Platino Award for Best Actor
2023 recipient: Ricardo Darín
CountryIbero-America
Presented byEntidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA)
Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA)
Currently held byRicardo Darín for Argentina, 1985 (2023)
Websitepremiosplatino.com

The Platino Award for Best Actor (Spanish: Premio Platino al mejor actor / Premio Platino a la mejor interpretación masculina) is one of the Platino Awards, Ibero-America's film awards presented annually by the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) and the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA).

It was first presented in 2014, with Mexican actor, Eugenio Derbez being the first recipient of the award, for his role as Valentín Bravo in Instructions Not Included. Until the 7th edition in 2020, male supporting performances were included in this category. In 2021, the category for Best Supporting Actor was created.

No actor has won this award more than once while actors Alfredo Castro and Ricardo Darín have received the most nominations for this award with four each, followed by Antonio de la Torre, Javier Gutiérrez Álvarez, Javier Cámara and Damián Alcázar with three each.

Spain holds the record of most wins in the category with five of the eight winners being Spanish actors, followed by Argentina, with three Argentine winners. 2020 winner Antonio Banderas also received a nomination for the Best Actor for Pain and Glory at the 92nd Academy Awards.

In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.

Winners and nominees

Eugenio Derbez, the first recipient of the award.
Guillermo Francella won in 2016.
Alfredo Castro won in 2018.
Antonio de la Torre won in 2019.
Antonio Banderas won in 2020.

2010s

Year Actor Role(s) English title Original title
2014
(1st)
[1]
Mexico Eugenio Derbez Valentín Bravo Instructions Not Included No se aceptan devoluciones
Spain Antonio de la Torre Carlos Cannibal Caníbal
Spain Javier Cámara Antonio Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados
Argentina Ricardo Darín Roberto Bermúdez Thesis on a Homicide Tesis sobre un homicidio
Peru Víctor Prada [es] Eusebio The Cleaner El limpiador
2015
(2nd)
[2]
Spain Óscar Jaenada Cantinflas Cantinflas
Puerto Rico Benicio del Toro Pablo Escobar Escobar: Paradise Lost
Spain Javier Gutiérrez Juan Robles Marshland La isla mínima
Cuba Jorge Perugorría Luis La pared de las palabras
Argentina Leonardo Sbaraglia Diego Wild Tales Relatos Salvajes
2016
(3rd)
[3]
Argentina Guillermo Francella Arquímedes Puccio The Clan El Clan
Chile Alfredo Castro Father Vidal The Club El Club
Mexico Damián Alcázar Harvey Magallanes Magallanes
Spain Javier Cámara Tomás Truman
Argentina Ricardo Darín Julián
2017
(4th)
[4]
Argentina Oscar Martínez Daniel Mantovani The Distinguished Citizen El ciudadano ilustre
Chile Alfredo Castro Armando From Afar Desde allá
Mexico Damián Alcázar Toño The Thin Yellow Line La delgada línea amarilla
Spain Eduard Fernández Francisco Paesa Smoke & Mirrors El hombre de las mil caras
Chile Luis Gnecco Pablo Neruda Neruda
2018
(5th)
Chile Alfredo Castro Juan Los Perros
Spain Daniel Giménez Cacho Diego de Zama Zama
Spain Javier Bardem Pablo Escobar Loving Pablo
Spain Javier Gutiérrez Álvaro The Motive El Autor
Cuba Jorge Martinez Diego Last Days in Havana Últimos días en La Habana
2019
(6th)
[5]
Spain Antonio de la Torre Manuel López Vidal The Realm El reino
Spain Javier Bardem Paco Everybody Knows Todos lo saben
Spain Javier Gutiérrez Marco Montes Champions Campeones
Argentina Lorenzo Ferro Robledo Puch El Angel El Ángel

2020s

Javier Cámara won in 2021.
Javier Bardem won in 2022.
Year Actor Role(s) English title Original title
2020
(7th)
[6]
Spain Antonio Banderas Salvador Mallo Pain and Glory Dolor y Gloria
Argentina Ricardo Darín Fermín Perlassi Heroic Losers La odisea de los giles
Spain Karra Elejalde Miguel de Unamuno While at War Mientras dure la guerra
Spain Antonio de la Torre Higinio Blanco The Endless Trench La trinchera infinita
2021
(8th)
[7]
Spain Javier Cámara Héctor Abad Gómez Forgotten We'll Be El olvido que seremos
Chile Alfredo Castro La loca del frente My Tender Matador Tengo miedo torero
Argentina Diego Peretti Fernando Araujo The Heist of the Century El robo del siglo
Argentina Miguel Ángel Solá Ignacio Arrieta The Crimes That Bind Crímenes de familia
2022
(9th)
[8][9]
Spain Javier Bardem Julio Blanco The Good Boss El buen patrón
Spain Eduard Fernández Oscar Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea Mediterráneo
Spain Luis Tosar Ibon Etxezarreta Maixabel
Brazil Rodrigo Santoro Luca 7 Prisoners 7 Prisioneiros
2023
(10th)
[10][11]
Argentina Ricardo Darín Julio César Strassera Argentina, 1985
Mexico Daniel Giménez Cacho Silverio Gama Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades
Spain Luis Tosar Rafa On the Fringe En los márgenes
Argentina Peter Lanzani Luis Moreno Ocampo Argentina, 1985
2024
(11th)
[12]
Mexico Damián Alcázar Ronnie Monroy The Monroy Affaire El caso Monroy
Spain David Verdaguer Eugenio Jokes & Cigarettes Saben aquell
Uruguay Enzo Vogrincic Numa Turcatti Society of the Snow La sociedad de la nieve
Chile Jaime Vadell Augusto Pinochet El conde
Argentina Marcelo Subiotto Marcelo Pena Puan

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