The Platinum Awards 2025 announced its nominees for its 12th edition and two Cubans are among the contenders for the Ibero-American film and audiovisual award.
In the Best Sound Direction category is Cuban sound designer Angie Hernandez for her work in the film A Night with the Rolling Stones, directed by Patricia Ramos.
In the Best Original Music category is Cuban musician and composer Ulises Hernandez for his creation for the Cuban costarring film The Invention of the Species.
Ulises Hernández had already received the Coral Award at the International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana for his work on this film.
Professional careers
Angie Hérnandez is a graduate of the Faculty of Audiovisual Media Arts (Famca) and the International School of Film and Television, San Antonio de los Baños, and has a body of work that places her in the credits of the documentaries Tren de la Línea Norte, by Marcelo Martín; La música de las esferas by Marcel Beltrán and Órgano by Rosa María Rodríguez.
Along with Patricia Ramos, director of A Night with the Rolling Stones, she has also worked on The Roof, I Love Lotus, and The Anniversary.
Angie also won the award for best sound at the Ceará Festival in Brazil for her work on Alan González’s film La mujer salvaje (The Wild Woman).
Ulises Hernández, on the other hand, has an immense body of work in Cuban cinema, which has earned him several awards in Cuba and abroad.
His work with director Enrique Álvarez, for whom he created the music for three of his films, is noteworthy: La ola, La caja negra and Bajo un sol poderoso.
His name also appears behind important titles of our filmography and with other important directors such as Vidas Paralelas by Pastor Vega; La edad de la peseta and El acompañante by Pavel Giroud and Pon tu pensamiento en mi by Arturo Soto.
Platinum Awards 2025
Cubans compete in the Platinum Awards against essential names in their specialties. Angie Hernandez competes against the Argentine film El Jockey and the Spanish films La infiltrada and Segundo premio.
In turn, the music of Ulises Hernández faces those of some of the most prestigious film composers such as the Argentine Gustavo Santaolalla, for Pedro Páramo, and the Spanish Alberto Iglesias for La habitación de al lado, and Fernando Velázquez for La Infiltrada.
Precisely, this last Spanish film is the most nominated with eleven aspirations for the silver statuette, followed by El Jockey, which has nine.
The management of the Platinum Awards has highlighted on its social networks that the Netflix series “One Hundred Years of Solitude” has eight nominations, which makes it the most nominated in the history of the award.
The Platinum Awards will be presented on April 27 at the Ifema Municipal Palace in Madrid, Spain.
