The Quirino Awards, known in Spanish as Premios Quirino de la Animación Iberoamericana ("Quinino Awards for Ibero-American animation") are an annual awards ceremony dedicated to reward achievements in Ibero-American animated productions. Its categories recognize feature films, short films and television productions.
The awards were established in 2017, with the first awards ceremony taking place on 7 April 2018 in
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz de Tenerife (; locally ), commonly abbreviated as Santa Cruz, is a city, the capital of the island of Tenerife, Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and one of the capitals of the Canary Islands, along with Las Palmas. Santa Cruz has a ...
, Spain. Since then, the ceremony has usually taken place in May of each year during several days in some location within
Tenerife
Tenerife ( ; ; formerly spelled ''Teneriffe'') is the largest and most populous island of the Canary Islands, an Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Spain. With a land area of and a population of 965,575 inhabitants as of A ...
.
The awards' name is in honour of Italian-Argentinian animation director
Quirino Cristiani
Quirino Cristiani (2 July 1896 – 2 August 1984) was an Italian-born Argentine animation director and cartoonist, responsible for the world's first two animated feature films as well as the first animated feature film with sound, even though the ...
, known for being responsible of the 1917 film ''
El Apóstol
''El Apóstol'' ( English: ''The Apostle'') was a 1917 lost Argentine animated film, directed and produced by Quirino Cristiani and respectively. Historians consider it the world's first animated feature film. Production began after the succes ...
'', considered the world's
first animated feature film.
Categories
Ceremonies
The following is a listing of all Quirino Awards ceremonies since 2018.
Winners and nominees
The winners are listed first and in bold, followed by the nominees.
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
See also
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Platino Award for Best Animated Film
The Platino Award for Best Animated Picture (Spanish: ''Premio Platino a la mejor película de animación'') is one of the Platino Awards, Ibero-America's film awards, presented by the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuale ...
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Goya Award for Best Animated Film
The Goya Award for Best Animated Film (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Premio Goya a la mejor película animada'') is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. The category was first presented at the 4th Goya Awards, fourth edit ...
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Goya Award for Best Animated Short Film
References
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External links
Official Premios Platino website
Ibero-American awards
Animation awards