Since 2016 they have been awarded by LGBT culture outlet Dos Manzanas, with the intention to highlight high-quality filmmaking in order to encourage more LGBT-themed works to be distributed in the country.
The magazine and website Dos Manzanas reports on LGBT culture in Spain as well as advocating for LGBT+ equality.
[1] After informally awarding LGBT-themed book awards in 2015,[2] Dos Manzanas started the Apolo Awards, referencing Olympian god Apollo, with an aim to vindicate distributing LGBT-themed works in Spain by celebrating the high quality of LGBT+ films.
[3] They also award the Spanish distributors who help combat LGBT-phobia by showing the films.
Many nominees and winners are thus the best international productions, with fewer Spanish films, as well as the local distributors of them.