ICYMI - The Goya Nominations & Winners
Friday, January 22, 2021 at 10:30AM
NATHANIEL R in Adú, Angela Molina, Candela Peña, Goyas, Icíar Bollain, Isabel Coixet, Javier Cámara, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arevalo, Sergi López, The Girls

by Nathaniel R

In case you missed them... and you might have because we forgot to share them, let's talk about the annual Goya Awards honoring Spanish cinema. Last season Pedro Almodóvar and Antonio Banderas's most recent collaboration Pain & Glory was the champ. To honor the 2020 film year, Banderas himself will direct and present the live-streamed ceremony in March 2021. This year the Africa-set drama Adú which is currently streaming on Netflix, and the girls school drama SchoolGirls lead the nominations with 14 and 9 nominations respectively.  UPDATE 3/ 8: Schoolgirls (or The Girls) took the top prize at the ceremony but it tied Adú in wins with 4 each. Coven (also known as Akelarre) won the most trophies with 5 craft wins.

The nominees and winners for the 35th annual Goyas and a few notes are after the jump...

Best Film

[OSCAR NERD DETAIL: You'll notice straight away that Spain's current Oscar submission, The Endless Trench is missing. That's because it competed at last year's Goyas. The calendars typically run beginning of October the previous year through end of September the current year for Best International Film submissions at the Oscars. That's going to make selection for next year's Oscar submissions strange for lots of countries because nothing released in 2020 will be eligible for submission at all due to the COVID eligibility extension which made the current submission eligibility period run through the end of December 2020 (three extra months!). Next year, presuming the International Film calendar snaps back to normal, countries will only have 9 months of releases (January-September) to choose from when they pick their Oscar submission.]

Best Director 

Isabel Coixet with her latest

Only two of the five best film nominees, landed directing nominations. Interesting. But the two directors who scored without their films nominated for the top prize are both Goya favourites. Ulloa has won the Goya in three different categories (Short, Screenplay, New Director) and Coixet has won in four different categories (Adapted Screenplay, Original Screenplay, Director, and Documentary). Ulloa's film Baby is about a young drug addict who sells her infant when she can't care for her. It Snows in Benidorm, the latest from Coixet, is about an early retiree (Timothy Spall) discovering that his brother has gone missing; Coixet often works with English-language stars. Her previous English language films are The Secret Life of Words, Elegy, Learning to Drive, and The Bookshop (which was a big winner at the Goyas)

Best New Director

Best Actress 

Candela Peña in Rosa's Wedding

Peña (All About My Mother, Princesas) is the Goya veteran here. 

Best Actor

Cámara (Bad Education, Talk to Her) is also the lead of Forgotten We'll Be which is nominated at the Goyas as well and is Colombia's Oscar submission. 

Best Supporting Actress

Verónica Echegui in My Heart Goes Boom

Best Supporting Actor 

Best Actress Newcomer 

Best Actor Newcomer 

Matias Janick in Historias Lamentables

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best Animated Film

Best Documentary 

Best European Film

So last year's controversial César winner, Poland's most recent Oscar nominee, the current Oscar hopeful The Father and... Viggo Mortensen's Falling? One of these things is not like the others.

Best Ibero-American Film 

All four of these films are Oscar submissions this season for their countries. 

Best Cinematography

Black Beach is an action film starring Raül Arevalo (Pain and Glory, Marshland, I'm So Excited) as a  businessman mixed up in the drama of the kidnapping of a US engineer. 

Best Production Management

Coven

Coven is a historical drama set in the early 17th century when men were sent to Basque country to burn any girl suspected of witchcraft. It's from the director Pablo Agüero who made the very strange and experimental Eva Doesn't Sleep six years back.

Best Original Music 

Best Original Song

Best Editing 

The Year of the Discovery is a documentary about riots in the southern town of Cartagena in 1992, when Spain was hosting the Olympics

Best Sound 

Best Art Direction

Best Costume Design 

Raúl Arévalo and Juan Diego Botto in The Europeans

Juan Diego Botto and Raul Arevalo star in The Europeans which is a film about two single friends on a trip to Ibiza.

Best Makeup and Hairdressing

We believe My Heart Goes Boom (known as Explota Explota) is a musical. 

Best Special Effects 

Honorary Goya

Ángela Molina in Live Flesh

The 2021 Goya Awards will be awarded in Málaga, Spain on March 6th.  

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