Platino Award for Best Actor

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).

CountryIbero-America

Presented byEntidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA)
Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA)

Currently held byWagner Moura for The Secret Agent (2026)

Websitepremiosplatino.com

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Platino Award for Best Actor
2026 recipient: Wagner Moura
Country	Ibero-America
Presented by	Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales (EGEDA) Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales (FIPCA)
Currently held by	Wagner Moura for The Secret Agent (2026)
Website	premiosplatino.com

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History

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 Javier Bardem, Antonio de la Torre, Javier Gutiérrez, Javier Cámara, Luis Tosar, Eduard Fernández and Damián Alcázar with three each; Daniel Giménez Cacho with two.

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.

2026 winner Wagner Moura also received a nomination for the Best Actor for The Secret Agent at the 98th 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

2010s

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

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2020s

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Year	Actor	Role(s)	English title	Original title
2020 (7th) ^[6]
	Antonio Banderas	Salvador Mallo	Pain and Glory	Dolor y Gloria
	Ricardo Darín	Fermín Perlassi	Heroic Losers	La odisea de los giles
	Karra Elejalde	Miguel de Unamuno	While at War	Mientras dure la guerra
	Antonio de la Torre	Higinio Blanco	The Endless Trench	La trinchera infinita
2021 (8th) ^[7]	Javier Cámara	Héctor Abad Gómez	Forgotten We'll Be	El olvido que seremos
	Alfredo Castro	La loca del frente	My Tender Matador	Tengo miedo torero
	Diego Peretti	Fernando Araujo	The Heist of the Century	El robo del siglo
	Miguel Ángel Solá	Ignacio Arrieta	The Crimes That Bind	Crímenes de familia
2022 (9th) ^[8]^[9]	Javier Bardem	Julio Blanco	The Good Boss	El buen patrón
	Eduard Fernández	Oscar	Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea	Mediterráneo
	Luis Tosar	Ibon Etxezarreta	Maixabel
	Rodrigo Santoro	Luca	7 Prisoners	7 Prisioneiros
2023 (10th) ^[10]^[11]	Ricardo Darín	Julio César Strassera	Argentina, 1985
	Daniel Giménez Cacho	Silverio Gama	Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths	Bardo, falsa crónica de unas cuantas verdades
	Luis Tosar	Rafa	On the Fringe	En los márgenes
	Peter Lanzani	Luis Moreno Ocampo	Argentina, 1985
2024 (11th) ^[12]^[13]	Enzo Vogrincic	Numa Turcatti	Society of the Snow	La sociedad de la nieve
	Damián Alcázar	Ronnie Monroy	The Monroy Affaire	El caso Monroy
	David Verdaguer	Eugenio	Jokes & Cigarettes	Saben aquell
	Jaime Vadell	Augusto Pinochet	El conde
	Marcelo Subiotto	Marcelo Pena	Puan
2025 (12th) ^[14]^[15]	Eduard Fernández	Enric Marco	Marco, the Invented Truth	Marco, la verdad inventada
	Luis Tosar	Ángel Salcedo "El Inhumano"	Undercover	La infiltrada
	Manuel Garcia-Rulfo	Pedro Páramo	Pedro Páramo
	Nahuel Pérez Biscayart	Remo Manfredini / Dolores "Lola"	Kill the Jockey	El jockey
2026 (13th) ^[16]^[17]	Wagner Moura	Armando Solimões / Marcelo Alves and Fernando Solimões (adult)	The Secret Agent	O Agente Secreto
	Alberto San Juan	Genaro	The Dinner	La cena
	Guillermo Francella	Various characters	Homo Argentum
	Ubeimar Ríos Gómez	Oscar Restrepo	A Poet	Un poeta

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Multiple nominations

The following actors received multiple Best Actor nominations:

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Nominations	Actor
4	Ricardo Darín
4	Alfredo Castro
3	Javier Bardem
	Damián Alcázar
	Javier Cámara
	Antonio de la Torre
	Javier Gutiérrez
	Luis Tosar
	Eduard Fernández
2	Daniel Giménez Cacho

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Platino Award for Best Actor

History

Winners and nominees

2010s

2020s

Multiple nominations

See also

References

External links

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