Goya Awards and Gowns
Monday, February 6, 2017 at 10:00PM The 31st annual Goya Awards (Spain's Oscars) were held over the weekend in Madrid and we'd be remiss if we didn't share the winners -- particularly considering we recently posted statistics about their all time favorite actresses. This year's big winners were Raúl Arévalo's revenge drama The Fury of a Patient Man (which took Best Film and 3 other prizes) and A Monster Calls (which took Best Director and swept the technical categories with 9 wins).
Ana Alvarez, Penélope Cruz, and Belen Lopez
Spain's Oscar submission, Almodóvar's Julieta, won only Best Actress for Emma Suarez who plays the older version of the titular character. Incredibly Suarez also won Best Supporting Actress for another film (The Next Skin) so Spain really worships her this year. (After the jump a complete list of winners as well as other gowns and tuxes...)
Film
Fury of a Patient Man
J.A. BayonaDirector
J.A. Bayona for A Monster Calls
Bayona is a Goya favorite -- he's won three of them (one each for The Impossible, The Orphanage, and A Monster Calls) -- but here's a strange statistic: despite his three wins none of his films have won Best Film
New Director
Raúl Arévalo for Fury of a Patient Man
Arévalo is a first time director but he's previously a Goya winner and nominee as an actor for films like Marshland (2014) and Fat People (2009)
Original Screenplay
David Pulido, Raul Arevalo for Fury of a Patient Man
Adapted Screenplay
Alberto Rodriguez, Rafael Cobos for Smoke and Mirrors
Original Score
Fernando Velazquez for A Monster Calls
Original Song
"Ai, Ai, Ai" by Silvia Perez Cruz for Cerca de tu Casa
Lead Actor
Roberto Alamo for May God Save Us
Lead Actress
Emma Suarez for Julieta
Jesus Castro, Alejandro Amenabar, Diego Martin, and Eduardo Casanova
Supporting Actor
Manolo Solo for Fury of a Patient Man
You may remember him as "Garces" from Pan's Labyrinth
Supporting Actress
Emma Suarez for La proxima piel
New Actor
Carlos Santos for Smoke and Mirrors
New Actress
Anna Castillo for El Olivo
WINNERS: Raul Arevalo (New Director), Anna Castillo (New Actress), Carlos Santos (New Actor), and Manolo Solo (Supporting Actor)
Production Design
Sandra Hermida Muniz for A Monster Calls
Photography
Oscar Faura for A Monster Calls
Faura previously shot The Impossible (Goya nomination) and The Imitation Game (ASC nomination)
Editing
Bernat Vilplana, Jaume Marti for A Monster Calls
Artistic Director
Eugenio Caballero for A Monster Calls
Caballero previously won the Oscar for his Production Design on Pan's Labyrinth but this is his first Goya (he lost the year of Pan's Labyrinth to the period drama Alatriste which starred Viggo Mortensen)
Wardrobe
Paola Torres for 1898. The End of the Philippines
Makeup and Hair
David Marti, Marese Langan for A Monster Calls
Emma Suarez (Best Actress & Best Supporting Actress), Ana Belen (Honorary), Barbara Lennie, and Marisa Paredes
Sound
Marc Orts, Oriol Tarrago, Peter Glossop for A Monster Calls
Special Effects
Felix Berges, Pau Costa for A Monster Calls
Animated Feature
Psiconautas, los ninos olivdados
Documentary Feature
Fragil Equilibrio
Ibero-American Film
El Ciudadano Ilustre by Gaston Duprat, Mariano Cohn
European Film
Elle by Paul Verhoeven
Elle just can't stop winning prizes -- such a pity that the Executive Committee didn't save it in the Oscar finals for foreign film.
Fiction Short
Timecode by Juanjo Giemenz Pena
This short is also up for the Oscar!
Documentary Short
Cabezas Habladoras by Juan Vicente Cordoba
Animated Short
Decorado by Alberto Vazquez
Honorary Goya
Ana Belen
Reader Comments (10)
Looks like A MONSTER CALLS is a film to watch! Too bad it never premiered here in the States.. oh, it did? COULD HAVE FOOLED ME. Stupid release choices.
Ryan -- yeah, talk about a blunder. It would have gotten more attention and money in October, it's original place
i love the fact that there's someone named eduardo casanova in the world
but i can't decide if i love his name the most or the fact that a song called "ai ai ai" won
Yay for A Monster Calls, in my personal Top 10, and treated shamefully here in the states. Emma Suarez is deserving as Best Actress, but Julieta as a whole was a major disappointment.
Cruz is absolutely gorgeous in black. Except for her, awful dresses. What was Emma Suarez thinking?
I remember getting excited about A Monster Calls when I saw the trailer months back, but then it never seemed to be released, so I forgot all about it. One day these studios will learn to stop throwing away their money. Maybe.
You guys, google 'Amaia Salamanca Goyas 2017' and swoon.
I absolutely adored A Monster Calls, so very glad to see it getting some awards love even if it couldn't translate here, apparently.
Also...Diego Martin. Hey there. :)
Hello, Eduardo Casanova. That's a *look*.
Lol, I thought you wouldn't notice about the Goyas... it's been a quite interesting year, and seriously, you could have asked me about some Goya tips...
1) They LOVE to nominate the american/international star only to deny him/her the prize in the last minute, Sigourney Weaver (A Monster Calls) has joined the long list that includes Tim Robbins (they didn't nominate him for The Secret Life of Words, but did it for A perfect day), Rachel Weisz (Agora), Sarah Polley (My Life without Me), Juliette Binoche (Endless Night), Naomi Watts and Tom Holland (for The Impossible, both attended the ceremony) half the cast of The Others (Nicole Kidman and the kids Alakinna Mann and James Bentley) and the only exception I can remember is Benicio del Toro, who actually won it for "Che: Part 1". But of course, Benicio is hispanic.
2) They have their vetoes, which actually explain why Rossy de Palma wasn't even nominated for "Julieta", and Almodovar's loss of anything but Suarez's lead actress. While voting for nomination was taking progress, "Julieta" was still in contention for the possible Oscar noms, but for the wins, it was already out, so no need to show any real support for the film.
3) One great and bad thing about the Goyas, is that they like to recognise expensive budget projects (The Impossible, A Monster Calls, Agora) and then deny them Best Picture in order to favor movies that were below the radar for average audiences.
4) I urge you to inmediately check out "Fat People", "Gordos", and check out that Antonio de la Torre was robbed from an Oscar, just because the film wasn't promoted for American Awards season. It's a truly amazing film.
5) In the biggest irony possible, "Pan's Labyrinth" did lose Best Picture and Director to "Volver", by Almodovar, which they nomrally hate. Probably the main reason was Guillermo del Toro is mexican and not spanish and to support Penelope Cruz's Oscar buzz by a big win by the film. I find no other explanation given Goya's track record. They only award Almodovar, when forced to do so... mainly because he has his own production company and produces his films out of the "system". An his ego, yeah. That, too.
6) When Goya realizez someone is truly great, it can take years to finally get the statuette. Best examples are - to my taste - Spain's best actor and actress at work. Javier Camara got his 1st Goya at the 7th nom (his second was for the Oscar-worthy performance in Talk to Her and he has been snubbed countless times, most notably for Bad Education), and it took a 5th nom to Maribel Verdú to get her 1st (she has 2 now, out of 10 noms, she's becoming Spain's Meryl Streep). The one film Verdu and Cámara brilliantly started together, "The Blind Sunflowers", ended with nom for Maribel and snub for Javier. The outcry for Maribel's continuous snubs was so high that the late Ricardo Franco, when winning the Best Director Goya for their film "La buena estrella" - another must see of spanish cinema - yelled to the Academy when accepting, "what has Maribel need to do, so you can finally give her an award?". My thoughts, exactly. Bardem and Cruz are great, but Camara and Verdú are better. Add Antonio de la Torre to the list of spanish actors even better than Bardem and Cruz.
7) Only 8% of the spanish actors can live from their work. Many Goya winners and nominees are struggling to survive. Some of them are already angry about it, when interviewed, like fantastic actress Candela Peña (3 wins, one extra nom), who can't pay the rents. Don't let the fantastic numbers of "A Monster Calls" fool you, or "Julieta"'s international box office, they are the exception. The producer of this year's winner had to put a mortgage to her house and still hasn't seen a single euro of profit.
8) The Goyas are quite predictable. If your film tends to be progressive, and criticize religion/fascism/classism, you are a sure bet for the nom and likely winner. That's why "Mondays in the Sun" - a more than OK film with a great Javier Bardem performance - stole "Talk to her" main Goyas (Almodovar's hate had to do also). The list of this films winning is... quite long. I'm OK with that - art should take sides - but when a just average or more than OK film defeats a masterpiece, I do have real problems. Still, "Camino" is one of the best Goya winners ever, a total masterpiece. I would also recommend "Ay Carmela!" and "La Niña de tus Ojos", as really good political films that did win the award.