2025 Platino

The day before the Platino Awards, the Teatro Albéniz in Madrid hosted the latest edition of Iberia’s Audience Platino Awards ceremony. With their votes, the audience chose the best Ibero-American audiovisual productions—film and series—, as well as rewarding the work of their favourite actors and actresses. Gemma Juncá, Marketing & Brand Director at Iberia, presented the awards, including customised suitcases with the airline’s logo. Next, let’s go over the winners of the 2025 awards.

Best Film – Undercover

A solid thriller, capable of keeping the audience on the edge of their seats from beginning to end, has received public support at the Platino Awards. This film tells the story of Aranzazu Berradre Marín, the pseudonym of the undercover agent who infiltrated the terrorist organisation ETA for eight years. Played by Carolina Yuste, the film stands out for its psychological portrait of this agent: her loneliness, her fears, her doubts... It also shines a spotlight on female roles in a masculine world. Luis Tosar, as her link to the police, is the perfect co-star, without forgetting about the cast of supporting actors: Diego Anido, Nausicaa Bonnín, Víctor Clavijo or Iñigo Gastesi. A win for its director, Arantxa Echevarría, who has established herself after Carmen & Lola or Chinas, a Second Generation Story.

Best TV Series – One Hundred Years of Solitude

During his lifetime, Gabriel García Márquez never allowed his masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude, to be adapted for film or TV. A decade after his death and with his son Rodrigo García leading the production, the Buendía family jumped from the page onscreen and received a unanimous applause, including that of the public, who decided to grant it the Audience Platino Award. Out of its eight Platino nominations, six were won by its actors and actresses (Claudio Cataño, Marleyda Soto, Jairo Camargo, Javier Villarreal, Viña Machado, and Loren Sofía), proof of the series’ quality cast. The second season is already in production, so it won’t be long before we can return to Macondo and discover the end of this story.

Best Actor / Film – Luis Tosar

At this stage, what more can we say about Luis Tosar? Admired by both critics and the public, he has become one of the most well-respected actors on the national scene. Despite winning three Goya Awards (Mondays in the Sun, Take My Eyes and Cell 211), the Platino Award is still holding out after three nominations: Maixabel, On the Fringe and Undercover. Nevertheless, his role in this latest film has won him the Audience Platino Award. Despite spending fewer minutes onscreen than usual for a leading role, this Galician actor charismatically embodies the boss of the undercover ETA agent played by Carolina Yuste, in short, her only contact with her previous life, her lifeline in moments of danger, her guardian angel from afar.

The stars of ‘Undercover,’ Carolina Yuste and Luis Tosar, have received the Audience Platino Award in the categories of Best Actress and Best Actor for film. © Bowfinger International Pictures

Claudio Cataño, leading the cast of ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude,’ has won the Audience Platino Award for Best Actor in a TV series. © Netflix

Candela Peña’s role bringing Rosario Porto to life in ‘The Asunta Case’ has won her the Audience Platino Award for Best Actress in a TV series. © Bambú Producciones

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Best Actress / Film – Carolina Yuste

Since she won the Goya Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2019 for her role in Carmen & Lola, Caroline Yuste has become one of the faces of new Spanish cinema worth following. Then came Sky High, Girlfriends, Jokes & Cigarettes or Undercover, the film she won her second Goya with—this time as the leading actress— and which has won her the audience’s recognition at the Platino Awards. And with good reason because she delivers an exceptional performance bringing to life an undercover agent who infiltrated the terrorist organisation ETA for eight years. Trapped in a suicide mission, Yuste conveys the strength, but also the exhaustion of a woman who lived with members of ETA in an incredible exercise of physical and mental gymnastics.

Best Actor / TV series – Claudio Cataño

Claudio Cataño’s face was not very well-known outside of Colombia but, after his role in One Hundred Years of Solitude, it has become lodged in the minds of spectators around the world. His rendering of coronel Aureliano Buendía has overcome the toughest critics: pleasing millions of fans of the book. A milestone in the career of a versatile actor who has spent years carving out a niche for himself in theatre, TV, and film, after his teenage debut in the series Married... with Children in 2005. Passionate about boxing since his role in the soap opera A mano limpia (2010), his intense gaze has been enough to knock out the audience with his talent.

Best Actress / TV series – Candela Peña

When on the 21^st of September 2013, Rosario Porto and Alfonso Basterra reported that their daughter Asunta was missing, nobody could imagine that it would become one of the most notorious cases in recent years in Spain. The child’s body was found hours later on the outskirts of Santiago de Compostela, and the subsequent investigation placed the parents as authors of the crime. A sublime Candela Peña, accompanied by a no-less-brilliant Tristán Ulloa as Alfonso Basterra, embodies Rosario Porto in The Asunta Case and her performance has won her the recognition of the Audience Platino Award. Her magnetic and chilling transformation gives the audience, who watches in intrigued horror, goosebumps.

If you want to know the winners of previous editions of the Audience Platino Awards, including films like Argentina 1985, Roma or Marshland, series like News of a Kidnapping or Burning Body, and actors and actresses like Javier Gutiérrez, Penélope Cruz, Ricardo Darín, Yalitza Aparicio, Javier Bardem or Natalia Oreiro, click here.