8th Platino Awards

The biggest winner of the night was the Colombian film Forgotten We'll Be with five awards (including Best Film, Best Actor and Best Director), whereas the Spanish limited television miniseries Patria was the most successful miniseries or TV series, winning four awards.

[12] The nominations were announced on 19 July 2021 from the Madrid Town Hall by actresses Belén Rueda and Paulina García, director Manolo Caro and presenter Elena Sánchez.

[13][14] Miquel Iceta, Enrique Cerezo, Rebeca Grynspan, Marta Rivera, José Luis Martínez-Almeida and Adrián Solar also attended the event.

[17] On 29 September 2021, the organization reported the acts of Ara Malikian, Becky G, Carlos Baute, Natalia Oreiro, Juan Magán, Pedro Capó and Sara Baras in the event,[18] to be presented by Juana Acosta and Luis Gerardo Méndez.

They were awarded to Manolo Caro's Someone Has to Die (Best Series), Álvaro Morte (Best TV Actor for Money Heist), María Mercedes Coroy (Best Film Actress for La llorona), Diego Peretti (Best Film Actor for The Heist of the Century) and Cecilia Suárez (Best TV Actress for The House of Flowers).