‘Acapulco’ Wins Six Imagen Awards as Andy Garcia Receives Lifetime Achievement Honor

Acapulco Imagen Awards 2026 honors totaled six after the Apple TV comedy emerged as the most awarded project at the 41st annual ceremony in Beverly Hills on Friday, August 21. The Imagen Foundation’s official awards announcement confirmed the show’s wins as the organization also presented Andy Garcia with its Lifetime Achievement Award.

The final-season comedy collected honors spanning acting, directing, music supervision and creative achievement. Oscar Almengor won Best Director, Eugenio Derbez received Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy, Vanesa Bauche won Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy, and Enrique Arrizon shared the Best Actor in a Comedy award. Javier Nuño and Joe Rodríguez received the music-supervision honor, while Apple TV and the Acapulco team received the Creative Achievement Award.

Acapulco Imagen Awards 2026 run caps the comedy’s final season

The results turned the Imagen ceremony into another significant moment for a series already approaching the end of its run. Before the awards were presented, the Imagen Foundation’s official nominee list showed Acapulco competing across multiple television categories, including comedy acting, directing and music supervision.

The six-award result was especially notable because the series entered the ceremony with its fourth and final season as its current chapter. Apple had previously confirmed that the bilingual comedy’s fourth season would be its last, bringing the story at Las Colinas toward a planned conclusion.

Apple’s official final-season announcement identified the fourth season as the farewell to the series, which stars Enrique Arrizon as the younger Máximo Gallardo and Eugenio Derbez as his older counterpart.

The Imagen results therefore give the comedy an awards-season sendoff that recognizes several different parts of its production rather than concentrating on a single performance.

Eugenio Derbez, Enrique Arrizon and Vanesa Bauche take acting honors

The acting results spread recognition across the Acapulco ensemble. Derbez won Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy, while Bauche received Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy.

Arrizon shared Best Actor in a Comedy with Stephanie Beatriz for Twisted Metal. The tie gave Acapulco another acting victory while recognizing the performer who has carried the younger version of Máximo through the show’s bilingual story.

Behind the camera, Almengor won Best Director for the series. Javier Nuño and Joe Rodríguez were recognized for Best Music Supervision for Film or Television, adding another craft category to the show’s total.

The Imagen Foundation also presented Apple TV and Acapulco with its Creative Achievement Award. Taken together, those results account for the six honors identified by the foundation in its post-ceremony announcement.

Andy Garcia receives the Imagen Lifetime Achievement Award

The evening also placed a major career honor on Andy Garcia. Actor Danny Pino presented Garcia with the Imagen Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing a screen career spanning more than four decades.

Garcia then moved from the awards presentation to the stage, performing with his CineSon All Stars band. Grammy-winning musician Arturo Sandoval joined the performance.

The recognition extended the ceremony beyond competitive film and television categories. Garcia has worked as an actor, filmmaker, producer and musician, and the Imagen Foundation framed the award around both his career and his contribution to Latino representation in entertainment.

Independent coverage of the ceremony corroborated the night’s major results. TheWrap’s Imagen Awards winners report confirmed the Acapulco acting and directing wins, Garcia’s honor and the CineSon All Stars performance. :contentReference[oaicite:10]{index=10}

Imagen Awards recognize winners across film and television

Acapulco may have accumulated the most awards, but the ceremony covered a much broader field of Latino talent and storytelling.

Brownsville Bred received Best Feature Film, while Dolores Fonzi won Best Actress for Belén. Will Trent was named Best Drama Series and Scrubs won Best Comedy Series.

Manuel Garcia-Rulfo received Best Actor in a Drama for The Lincoln Lawyer, and Amirah Vahn won Best Actress in a Drama for Doc. Michael Peña and Arienne Mandi were among the supporting-acting winners.

The ceremony also recognized Selena y Los Dinos as Best Documentary, Leguizamo Does America Season 2 as Best Variety or Reality Show and Marcello Hernández: American Boy as Best Special or Television Movie.

For Acapulco, however, the six-win night arrives at an unusually fitting point in the show’s history. Its final season has transformed what could have been a conventional awards appearance into recognition of performances and creative work from the series as it completes its run.