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The Apolo Awards (Spanish : Premios Apolo de cine LGTB) are annual awards given to the best LGBT-themed films that have been released in Spain. 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.

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History

The Apolo Awards were founded in 2016 by Dos Manzanas. 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 being brave enough to choose to show the films. Many nominees and winners are thus the best international productions, with fewer Spanish films, as well as the local distributors of them. [4]

For the 2016 awards, the Best Song category was added. [5] In response to more LGBT-themed films being released, particularly by international streaming services, the 2021 awards upped the nominations per category to four (from three) for most, and to ten (from five) for Best Film. It also added three new categories to better appreciate more diverse films, each with five nominees: Best Comedy, Best Documentary, and Best Spanish Film. [6]

Categories

Production

*Introduced for 2021 awards (VIIth edition)

Acting

Awards

Films are nominated based on the year during which they were first distributed in Spain; the awards are given in January of the following year.

2015

Production

Best Film
Best Director
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best New Director
Best Production Design
  • José Joaquim Salles – Reaching for the Moon (Splendor Films España)
    • Michel Barthélémy, Pascal Leguellec and Nathalie Roubaud – The New Girlfriend (Golem)
    • Alain Ortiz – The King of Havana (Filmax)
Best Costume Design
Best Hair and Make-Up
Best Sound
  • Marc Serena and Verònica Font – Tchindas (Pirámide Films)
    • Jamie Caple, Tony Gibson, Blair Jollands and Martin Trevis – Pride (Golem)
    • Miguel Hormazábal, Roberto Zuñiga, Ivo Moraga, Salomé Román and Mauricio Molina – The Club (Caramel Films)
Best Original Music
  • Best Song was not awarded

Acting

Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Ensemble Cast
Best Couple
Best New Actor
  • Kostas Nikouli – Xenia as Dany (Karma Films)
    • Rubèn de Eguia – Virus of Fear as Jordi (Alfa Pictures)
    • Del Herbert-Jane – 52 Tuesdays as James (Cine Binario)
Best New Actress

2016

Production

Best Film
Best Director
Best New Director
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Sound
Best Costume Design
Best Hair and Make-Up
Best Original Music
Best Song

Acting

Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Ensemble Cast
Best Couple
Best New Actor
Best New Actress

2017

Production

Best Film [7] [8]
Best Director
Best New Director
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Sound
Best Costume Design
Best Hair and Make-Up
  • Johanna Eliasson, Sandra Mundi, Riika Virtanen and Lars Carlsson – Tom of Finland (Festival Films)
    • Frédéric Balmer, Balthazar, Morgane Bernhard, Michèle Constantinides, Mathieu Gueracague, Alexis Kinebayan and Jana Schulze – Slack Bay (VerCine)
    • Lola Gómez, Jesús Gil and Óscar del Monte – Skins (Premium Cinema)
Best Original Music
Best Original Song

Acting

Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Ensemble Cast
Best Couple
Best New Actor
Best New Actress
  • Julia Lübbert – Rara as Sara (Syldavia Cinema)

2018

Production

Best Film
Best Director
Best New Director
  • Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson – Heartstone (Abordar)
    • Lukas Dhont Girl (Vértigo Films)
    • Adrián Silvestre – The Objects of Love (Adrián Silvestre)
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Sound
Best Costume Design
Best Hair and Make-Up
Best Original Music
Best Original Song

Acting

Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Ensemble Cast
Best Couple
Best New Actor
Best New Actress

2019

Production

Best Film
Best Director
Best New Director
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Sound
Best Costume Design
Best Hair and Make-Up
Best Original Music
Best Original Song

Acting

Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Ensemble Cast
Best Couple
Best New Actor
Best New Actress

2020

Production

Best Film
Best Director
Best New Director
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Production Design
  • Estefanía Larraín and Tatiana Maulen – Ema (BTeam Pictures)
Best Sound
  • Lena Esquenazi, Eduardo Castillo, Javier Farina and Javier Umpierrez – Monos (BTeam Pictures)
Best Costume Design
  • Pascaline Chavanne – Summer of 85 (Golem)
    • Felipe Criado and Muriel Parra – Ema (BTeam Pictures)
    • Ana López Cobos – So My Grandma's a Lesbian! (Filmax)
Best Hair and Make-Up
Best Original Music
Best Original Song

Acting

Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Ensemble Cast
Best Couple
Best New Actor
Best New Actress

2021

Production

Best Film
Best Spanish Film
  • Sediments (Begin Again Films)
    • Cut! (Filmin)
    • Mía & Moi (Toned Media)
    • More the Merrier (Filmax)
    • Revolution Dancing (Begin Again Films)
Best Comedy
Best Documentary
Best Director
Best New Director
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Cinematography
Best Editing
Best Production Design
Best Sound
Best Costume Design
Best Hair and Make-Up
Best Original Music
Best Original Song
  • Best Visual Effects: Ryan Laney, Eugen Bräunig, Maxwell Anderson, Johnny Han and Piers Dennis – Welcome to Chechnya (Flamingo Films)

Acting

Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Ensemble Cast
Best Couple
Best New Actor
Best New Actress


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