5th Fénix Awards


The 5th Fénix Awards was presented at Mexico City's Teatro de la Ciudad, on November 7, 2018 to honour the best in Ibero-American films of 2017-2018.
Zama and Birds of Passage received the most nominations with nine, with the first receiving the most, four.

Winners and nominees

Best FilmBest Director

  • Marcelo Martinessi – The Heiresses
  • *Anahí Berneri – Alanis
  • *Julio Hernández Cordón - Buy Me a Gun
  • *Laura Mora - Killing Jesus
  • *Alonso Ruizpalacios - Museum
  • *Ciro Guerra and Cristina Gallego - Birds of Passage
  • *Lucrecia Martel - Zama
    • Best ActorBest Actress
  • Lorenzo Ferro - El Angel as Carlos Robledo Puch
  • *Javier Gutiérrez - The Motive as Álvaro Martín
  • *Gael García Bernal - Museum as Juan Núñez
  • *Rodrigo Santoro - Un Traductor as Malin
  • *Daniel Giménez Cacho - Zama as Don Diego de Zama
  • Carmiña Martínez - Birds of Passage as Úrsula
  • *Sofía Gala Castiglione - Alanis as Alanis
  • *Karine Teles - Benzinho as Irene
  • *Antonella Costa - Dry Martina as Martina
  • *Bárbara Lennie - A Sort of Family as Malena
    • Best ScreenplayBest Cinematography
  • Killing Jesus - Laura Mora y Alonso Torres
  • *The Heiresses - Marcelo Martinessi
  • *Birds of Passage - María Camila Arias y Jacques Toulemonde
  • *Petra - Jaime Rosales, Michel Gaztambide y Clara Roquet
  • *Zama - Lucrecia Martel
  • Zama - Rui Poças
  • *El Angel - Julián Apezteguía
  • *The Heiresses - Luis Armando Arteaga
  • *Museum - Damián García
  • *Birds of Passage - David Gallego

    • Special Awards