The Secret Agent Leads Premios Platino Winners

The Secret Agent Leads Premios Platino Winners

Brazilian cinema seized the spotlight again at the Premios Platino, with The Secret Agent emerging as the night’s defining winner and Netflix’s Argentine series The Eternaut ruling the television field.

Reports indicate The Secret Agent, directed by Kleber Mendonça, captured best feature, best director, best screenplay and best actor for Wagner Moura, while also collecting four additional prizes. The result marks a second straight year in which a Brazilian film swept the top honors at the annual Ibero-American awards event, held this year in Riviera Maya, Mexico under the Platinos Xcaret banner.

Brazil held the center of the film conversation, while Argentina and Netflix drove the television momentum.

The split between film and TV winners says as much about the region’s screen industries as the trophies themselves. On the film side, the awards reinforced Brazil’s current strength in prestige filmmaking. On the television side, The Eternaut underlined the growing pull of major streaming-backed productions, with the Argentine series dominating its categories and extending Netflix’s influence across the Ibero-American market.

The ceremony’s outcome also highlights a broader balance taking shape in regional entertainment: auteur-driven films still command cultural prestige, while large-scale series backed by global platforms increasingly shape audience attention. Sources suggest that dynamic will only sharpen as streamers invest more heavily in local-language productions with international reach.

What comes next matters beyond one awards night. The wins for The Secret Agent and The Eternaut could strengthen their awards-season momentum, expand their visibility outside Latin America and Spain, and deepen interest in the region’s filmmakers and series creators. For the industry, the message looks clear: Ibero-American storytelling keeps gaining power, and both cinemas and streamers want a larger share of it.