WHAT HAPPENED AT THE GOYA FILM AWARDS IN VALENCIA?

#The red carpet was rolled out in Valencia for the 36^th Goya Awards ceremony at Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía last Saturday. The city welcomed the awards with fanfare, installing 12 Goya statues in 12 different barrios.

A total of 160 films were selected to compete, including the record-breaking most nominated film, ‘El buen patrón’, which was nominated for 20 awards. The film won six awards including Best Film, Best Director (Fernando León de Aranoa), Best Actor (Javier Bardem), and Best Original Screenplay. These awards were the seventh Goya Awards to be bestowed on director Fernando León de Aranoa and leading actor Javier Bardem. ‘El buen patrón’ was followed by ‘Las leyes de la frontera’, which took home five awards.

A new category was unveiled at the Goyas this year – the non-competitive International Honorary Goya which was awarded to Australian actress Cate Blanchett. Accepting the award from actress Penélope Cruz and director Pedro Almodóvar, Blanchett described how watching films by Spanish director Luis Bunuel in high school changed how she saw the world. Blanchett and Almodóvar will be collaborating in an upcoming adaptaion of Lucia Berlin’s short story collection ‘A Manual for Cleaning Women.’

An Honorary Goya was also presented to José Sacristán, who was introduced via the many titles of his six-decade filmography. The late Verónica Forqué, an actress across stage and screen who won four Goya Awards and was the most award-winning actress alongside Carmen Maura, was also memorialised at this year’s ceremony.

Nominations and winners for the Goya Awards:

BEST FILM

“El buen patrón” (WINNER)
“Libertad” by Clara Roquet
“Madres paralelas”
“Maixabel”
“Mediterráneo”

BEST LEADING ACTOR

Javier Bardem in “El buen patrón” (WINNER)
Javier Gutiérrez in “La hija”
Luis Tosar in “Maixabel”
Eduard Fernández in “Mediterráneo”

BEST LEADING ACTRESS

Emma Suarez in “Josefina”
Petra Martínez in “La vida era eso”
Penélope Cruz in “Madres paralelas”
Blanca Portillo in “Maixabel”(WINNER)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Celso Bugallo in “El buen patrón”
Fernando Albizu in “El buen patrón”
Manolo Solo in “El buen patrón”
Urko Olazábal in “Maixabel” (WINNER)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Sonia Almarcha for “El buen patrón”
Nora Navas for “Libertad” (WINNER)
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón for “Madres paralelas”
Milena Smit for “Madres paralelas”

BEST DIRECTOR

Fernando León de Aranoa for “El buen patrón” (WINNER)
Manuel Martín Cuenca for “La hija”
Pedro Almodóvar for “Madres paralelas”
Iciar Bollaín for “Maixabel”

BEST NEW ACTOR

Óscar de la Fuente in “El buen patrón”
Tarik Rmili in “El buen patrón”
Chechu Salgado in “Las leyes de la frontera” (WINNER)
Jorge Motos in “Lucas”

BEST NEW ACTRESS

Ángela Cervantes in “Chavalas”
Almudena Amor in “El buen patrón”
Nicolle García in “Libertad”, by Clara Roquet
María Cerezuela in “Maixabel” (WINNER)

BEST NEW DIRECTOR

Carol Rodríguez Colás for “Chavalas”
Javier Marco for “Josefina”
David Martín de los Santos for “La vida era eso”
Clara Roquet for “Libertad” (WINNER)

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Fernando León de Aranoa for “El buen patrón” (WINNER)
Clara Roquet for “Libertad”
Iciar Bollaín, Isa Campo for “Maixabel”
Juanjo Giménez Peña, Pere Altamira for “Tres”

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Júlia de Paz Solvas, Núria Dunjó López for “Ama”
Agustí Villaronga for “El vientre del mar”
Daniel Monzón y Jorge Guerricaechevarría for “Las leyes de la frontera” (WINNER)
Benito Zambrano y Cristina Campos for “Pan de limón con semillas de amapola”

BEST ANIMATED FILM

“Gora automatikoa”
“Mironins”
“Salvar el árbol (Zutik!)”
“Valentina” (WINNER)

BEST DOCUMENTARY

“El retorno: La vida después del ISIS”
“Héroes, silencio y rock and roll”
“Quién lo impide” (WINNER)
“Un blues para Teherán”

BEST IBEROAMERICAN FILM

“Canción sin nombre” by Melina León (Peru)
“La cordillera de los sueños” by Patricia Guzmán (Chile) (WINNER)
“Las siamesas” by Paula Hernández (Argentina)
“Los lobos” by Samuel Kishi (Mexico)

BEST EUROPEAN FILM

“Adiós, idiotas” (France)
“El hombre perfecto” (Germany)
“Otra ronda” (Denmark) (WINNER)
“Una joven prometedora” (UK)

BEST ORIGINAL SONG

“Burst Out” – Composers: Àngel Leiro, Jean-Paul Dupeyron, Xavier Capellas for “Álbum de posguerra”
“Que me busquen por dentro” – Composers: Antonio Orozco, Jordi Colell Pinillos for “El cover”
“Las leyes de la frontera” – Composers: Alejandro García Rodríguez, Antonio Molinero León, Daniel Escortell Blandino, José Manuel Cabrera Escot, Miguel García Cantero for “Las leyes de la frontera”
“Te espera el mar” – Composers: Maria José Llergo, for “Mediterráneo” (WINNER)

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

Zeltia Montes, for “El buen patrón” (WINNER)
Fatima Al Qadiri, for “La abuela”
Alberto Iglesias, for “Maixabel”
Arnau Bataller, for “Mediterráneo”

BEST FICTIONAL SHORT FILM

“Farrucas”
“Mindanao”
“Totem Loba” (WINNER)
“Votamos”
“Yalla”

BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILM

“Dajla: Cine y olvido”
“Figurante”
“Mamá” (WINNER)
“Ulises”

BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM

“Nacer”
“Proceso de selección”
“The Monkey” (WINNER)
“Umbrellas”

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

“El buen patrón”
“Libertad”
“Madres paralelas”
“Mediterráneo” (WINNER)

BEST SOUND

“El buen patrón”
“Madres paralelas”
“Maixabel”
“Tres” (WINNER)

BEST EDITING

“Bajocero”
“El buen patrón” (WINNER)
“Josefina”
“Maixabel”