Before the start of the gala the duel was chewed on the red carpet (well, blue). Iron man against Captain America. Batman vs. Superman. ‘As bestas’ against ‘Alcarràs’. The night of the Goyas was presented as a fight in style between the two sides of the rural coin and, behind it, ‘Cinco little wolves’ putting on the face of “However the vote is divided, you’ll see what a laugh”. But in the end there has been no quarter possible: Rodrigo Sorogoyen has annihilated any hope for the rest of the films leaving our Oscar candidate looking at her bagel with…
Author: Joaquín González
The great winner of this edition of the Goya Awards is being ‘As Bestas’ and the award for best leading actor for Denis Menochet It has been little less than the definitive confirmation. And we must not forget that it is quite rare for an interpreter not born in Spain to win a Goya. In ‘As Bestas’, Ménochet plays the Frenchman who has a strong dispute against the brothers incarnated by Luis Zaherawho also won the award for best supporting actor, and Diego Anido. A first class job that has been rewarded by the Spanish Film Academy. The recognition of…
‘Cinco Lobitos’ continues adding Goyas with that of Best Leading Actress for Laia Costa, along with Best Supporting Actress for Susi Sánchez and Best New Director for Alauda Ruiz de Azúa. Laia Costa is Amaia, the film’s protagonist who has to face motherhood for the first time practically alone. Finding herself overwhelmed by her situation, she returns to her parents’ house where she will strengthen her relationship with her mother. The actress has won the Goya in a category in which she competed against Anna Castillo (‘Wild Sunflowers’), Marina Fois (‘As beasts’), Barbara Lennie (‘The crooked lines of God’) and…
The triumph of ‘As Bestas’ at the 2023 Goya Awards has been indisputable and has been completed with the victory of Rodrigo Sorogoyen in the category of best direction and with the award for best film of the year. In this way, this great feature film has taken home a whopping nine big heads. Sorogoyen had previously won the award for best director for ‘El reino’, but that year he could not win the award for best film, which went to ‘Campeones’. It was the only icing on the cake that was missing from his impressive career, and best of…
The 37th Goya Awards ceremony continues unhurriedly and with occasional pauses handing out big heads left and right and awarding the best Spanish cinema of a 2022 that has left us a tremendously appetizing vintage among which a debut film stands out. This is none other than ‘Cinco lobitos’, which started as one of the best positioned films with 11 nominations and which is reaffirmed as the debut of the year after its director Aualuda Ruiz de Azúa has won the Goya for best new director. To do this, the filmmaker has imposed herself on Charlotte Pereda —’Pig’—, Elena Lopez…
The Goya for Best Animated Short Film goes to ‘Loop’, a wonderful short of only 8 minutes written and directed by Pablo Polledri and produced by Uniko, the same studio behind ‘Unicorn Wars’, ‘Birdboy’ and ‘Decorado’. ‘Loop’ is a fun short film about a society that lives in a constant loop, where each inhabitant has to follow his role mechanically… until something changes. The short is available through Youtube. ‘Loop’ has won the award competing against ‘The shortest night dawns’ (Lorena Ares and Carlos FerFer), ‘tied up’ (Carmen Cordoba), ‘The first thing’ (Omar A. Razzak and Shira Ukrainitz) and ‘Spring…
Telmo Irureta has won the Goya for Best New Actor for his role in ‘The Rite of Spring’ by Fernando Franco. The actor plays David, a young man with cerebral palsy who meets Laura (Valèria Sorolla), a university student who has just arrived in Madrid and with whom he begins a complex relationship in which both will mature and grow as people. Irureta was born in 1989, is 34 years old and is from Zumaya (Guipúzcoa). Like his character in the movie, he has had cerebral palsy since he was two years old due to encephalitis. He graduated in Teaching…
The Spanish Film Academy has chosen Laura Galan as the best new actress of the year for her work in the wonderful ‘Cerdita’. A well-deserved award that we hope will further boost her career on the big screen. Written and directed by Charlotte Pereda, ‘Cerdita’ tells the story of Sara, a young woman who suffers constant ridicule from other girls in the town where she lives. However, what really complicates things is the arrival of a stranger who kidnaps several of them… Galán had already played this character in the short film of the same title released in 2018 and…
Luis Zahera He has just won the first Goya of the night by being recognized as the best supporting actor of the year for his unforgettable performance of ‘As Bestas’. It is the second time that he has triumphed in this category, since he already achieved it a few years ago thanks to his stupendous appearance in ‘The Kingdom’. Zahera plays in ‘As Bestas’ xan, a local from a small Galician village who has a serious conflict with a French couple who settled there not long ago. His shock at the possibility of installing windmills in the area will end…
Although it was expected, it is no less fair for that: Susi Sánchez has just received the Goya for Best Supporting Actress for his role in ‘Cinco Lobitos’, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s debut feature. Susi Sánchez plays Begoña in the film, the mother of Amaia (Laia Costa), who experiences her first experience as a mother. Like the protagonist, we will get to know Begoña better as the story progresses, an apparently unfriendly but very complex character. Susi Sánchez has won the prize in a category that competed against Marie Colomb (‘As Beasts’), carmen machi (‘Pig’), Penelope Cruz (‘In the margins’)…