Platino Award for Best Documentary

The Platino Award for Best Documentary is one of the Platino Awards, Ibero-America's film awards, presented by the Entidad de Gestión de Derechos de los Productores Audiovisuales and the Federación Iberoamericana de Productores Cinematográficos y Audiovisuales.

History

It was first presented in 2014, with the Spanish documentary Con la pata quebrada being the first recipient of the award. Spain holds the record of most wins in the category with six as well as most nominations with twenty-two, with at least one nominated Spanish film each edition.
Brazilian films The Salt of the Earth and The Edge of Democracy and Chilean films The Mole Agent and The Eternal Memory, all won the Platino Award and have received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
In the list below. the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.