Brazil Sweeps Platino Awards as ‘O Agente Secreto’ Leads With Eight Wins

Overview

• O Agente Secreto, which dominated Saturday’s Platino ceremony in Cancún, took eight awards including Best Film, Director, Screenplay and Actor, plus three technical prizes announced earlier.
• Wagner Moura won Best Actor and the public vote, becoming the first Brazilian to take the acting prize, with his thanks read while he filmed in Spain.
• Petra Costa’s Apocalipse nos Trópicos won Best Documentary, and HBO Max’s Beleza Fatal was named Best Long‑form Series.
• Accepting top honors, director Kleber Mendonça Filho said cinema helps counter lies in a time of disinformation.
• After returning Monday, Mendonça Filho said Federal Police at São Paulo–Guarulhos stopped him in a random bag check and congratulated him for the “heavy trophies.”