4th Platino Awards

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The 4th Platino Awards was presented at Caja Mágica in Madrid, Spain on July 22, 2017, to honour the best in Ibero-American films of 2016.

A Monster Calls received the most nominations with seven.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Major awards

Best Ibero-American Film The Distinguished Citizen Aquarius Smoke & Mirrors Julieta Neruda	Best Director Pedro Almodóvar – Julieta J. A. Bayona – A Monster Calls Kleber Mendonça Filho – Aquarius Gastón Duprat & Mariano Cohn – The Distinguished Citizen Pablo Larraín – Neruda
Platino Award for Best Actor *Oscar Martínez – The Distinguished Citizen* as Daniel Mantovani** Alfredo Castro – From Afar as Armando Damián Alcázar – The Thin Yellow Line as Toño Eduard Fernández – Smoke & Mirrors as Francisco Paesa Luis Gnecco – Neruda as Pablo Neruda	Platino Award for Best Actress *Sônia Braga – Aquarius* as Dona Clara** Angie Cepeda – The Seed of Silence as María del Rosario Durán Emma Suárez – Julieta as Julieta Arcos Juana Acosta – Anna as Anna Natalia Oreiro – I'm Gilda as Gilda
Best Screenplay	Best Original Score
The Distinguished Citizen – Andrés Duprat [es] Smoke & Mirrors – Alberto Rodríguez & Rafael Cobos The Companion – Pavel Giroud, Alejandro Brugues & Pierre Edelman The Thin Yellow Line – Celso García Neruda – Guillermo Calderón	Julieta – Alberto Iglesias Esteban [ca] – Chucho Valdés Neruda – Federico Jusid A Monster Calls – Fernando Velázquez Incident Light – Mariano Loiácono
Best Animated Film Psychonauts, the Forgotten Children Bruxarias La Leyenda del Chupacabras Ozzy Teresa y Tim [ca]	Best Documentary Nacido en Siria [es] Atrapados en Japón Cinema Novo Delicate Balance [es] It All Started at the End
Best Cinematography A Monster Calls – Óscar Faura The Chosen Ones – Carolina Costa Neon Bull – Diego Garcia Incident Light – Guillermo Nieto Letters from War – João Ribeiro	Best Art Direction A Monster Calls – Eugenio Caballero Incident Light – Ailí Chen The Queen of Spain – Juan Pedro de Gaspar Letters from War – Nuno Mello The Death of Louis XIV – Sebastián Vogler
Best Editing A Monster Calls – Bernat Vilaplana & Jaume Martí May God Forgive Us – Alberto del Campo & Fernando Franco From Afar – Isabela Monteiro de Castro The Thin Yellow Line – Jorge Arturo Garcia Such is Life in the Tropics – José García	Best Sound A Monster Calls – Peter Glossop, Marc Orts & Oriol Tarragó Smoke & Mirrors – Daniel de Zayas, César Molina & José Antonio Manovel Letters from War – Ricardo Leal & Tiago Matos Desierto – Sergio Díaz From Afar – Waldir Xavier
Best Ibero-American First Film From Afar The Thin Yellow Line Rara The Fury of a Patient Man Viejo Calavera	Cinema and Education in Values Esteban [ca] The Companion El Jeremías Rara A Monster Calls
Best Miniseries or TV series Cuatro estaciones en La Habana Bala Loca El marginal El Ministerio del Tiempo La niña Velvet

Honorary Platino

Edward James Olmos^{[citation needed]}

Films with multiple nominations and awards

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
7	A Monster Calls
5	Neruda
4	The Distinguished Citizen
	Smoke & Mirrors
	Julieta
	The Thin Yellow Line
	From Afar
3	Aquarius
	Incident Light
	Letters from War
2	The Companion
	Rara
	Esteban [ca]