Goya Awards Explained

Goya Awards
Current Awards:	38th Goya Awards
Awarded For:	Best in film
Presenter:	Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España
Country:	Spain
Year:	1987
Website:	Official Premios Goya website

The Goya Awards (Spanish; Castilian: Premios Goya|links=no) are Spain's main national annual film awards. They are presented by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.

The first ceremony was held in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, at the Teatro Lope de Vega in Madrid. They have since been also held in other Spanish cities (Barcelona, Seville, Málaga, Valencia, and Valladolid).

History

To reward the best Spanish films of each year, the Spanish Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts decided to create the Goya Awards. The Goya Awards are Spain's main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards. The inaugural ceremony took place on March 17, 1987, at the Lope de Vega theatre in Madrid. From the 2nd edition until 1995, the awards were held at the Palacio de Congresos in the Paseo de la Castellana. Then they moved to the similarly named Palacio Municipal de Congresos, also in Madrid.^[1] In 2000, the ceremony took place in Barcelona, at the Barcelona Auditorium. In 2003, a large number of film professionals took advantage of the Goya awards ceremony to express their opposition to the Aznar's government support of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In 2004, the AVT (an association against terrorism in Spain) demonstrated against terrorism and ETA, a paramilitary organization of Basque separatists, in front of the Lope de Vega theatre. In 2005, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was the first prime minister in the history of Spain to attend the event. In 2013, the minister of culture and education José Ignacio Wert did not attend, saying he had “other things to do”. Some actors said that this decision reflected the government's lack of respect for their profession and industry. The 2019 and 2023 editions of the awards took place in Seville,^[2] and in 2020 and 2020 in Málaga.^{[3] [4]}

Trophy sculpture

The award itself is a small bronze bust of Francisco Goya created by the sculptor José Luis Fernández, although the original sculpture for the first edition of the Goyas was by Miguel Ortiz Berrocal.^{[5] [6]} The trophy sculpture is informally known as Spanish; Castilian: cabezón (plural: Spanish; Castilian: cabezones),^[7] 'bighead'.

Awards

The awards are currently delivered in 28 categories, excluding the Honorary Goya Award and the International Goya Award, with an increase of up to five nominees per category established for the upcoming 37th edition. There was a maximum of four candidates for each from the 13th Edition (having been three candidates in the first edition, five in the 2nd and 3rd edition and three from the fourth to the twelfth edition) to the 36th edition.

• Best Film
• Best Director
• Best Leading Actor
• Best Leading Actress
• Best Original Screenplay
• Best Adapted Screenplay
• Best New Director
• Best Supporting Actor
• Best Supporting Actress
• Best New Actor
• Best New Actress
• Best Production Supervision
• Best Cinematography
• Best Editing
• Best Original Score
• Best Original Song
• Best Art Direction
• Best Costume Design
• Best Makeup and Hairstyles
• Best Sound
• Best Special Effects
• Best Animated Film
• Best Animated Short Film
• Best Documentary Short Film
• Best Fictional Short Film
• Best European Film
• Best Documentary
• Best Iberoamerican Film
• Honorary Goya Award
• International Goya Award

Award ceremonies

The following is a listing of all Goya Awards ceremonies since 1986.

Ceremony	Date	Best Picture winner	Host(s)	Venue
	March 17, 1987	Voyage to Nowhere		Teatro Lope de Vega, Madrid
	March 22, 1988	El bosque animado		Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid
	March 21, 1989	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
	March 10, 1990	Twisted Obsession
	February 16, 1991	¡Ay Carmela!
	March 7, 1992	Lovers
	March 13, 1993	Belle Époque
	January 21, 1994	Todos a la cárcel
	January 21, 1995	Running Out of Time
	January 25, 1996	Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead	Verónica Forqué,	Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid
	January 25, 1997	Thesis
	January 31, 1998	Lucky Star
	January 23, 1999	The Girl of Your Dreams
	January 29, 2000	All About My Mother		L'Auditori, Barcelona
	February 3, 2001	El Bola	María Barranco, José Coronado, Loles León, Imanol Arias, Concha Velasco,	Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid
	February 2, 2002	The Others	Rosa María Sardà
	February 1, 2003	Mondays in the Sun	Alberto San Juan, Guillermo Toledo
	January 31, 2004	Take My Eyes	Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Diego Luna
	January 30, 2005	The Sea Inside	Antonio Resines, Maribel Verdú, Montserrat Caballé
	January 29, 2006	The Secret Life of Words	Concha Velasco, Antonio Resines
	January 28, 2007	Volver	José Corbacho
	February 3, 2008	Solitary Fragments
	February 1, 2009	Camino	Carmen Machi, Muchachada Nui
	February 14, 2010	Cell 211	Andreu Buenafuente
	February 13, 2011	Black Bread		Teatro Real, Madrid
	February 19, 2012	No Rest for the Wicked	Eva Hache	Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid
	February 17, 2013	Blancanieves
	February 9, 2014	Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
	February 7, 2015	Marshland^[8]	Dani Rovira
	February 6, 2016	Truman
	February 4, 2017	The Fury of a Patient Man
	February 3, 2018^[9]	The Bookshop	Joaquín Reyes, Ernesto Sevilla^[10]
	February 2, 2019^[11]	Champions	Silvia Abril, Andreu Buenafuente^[12]	Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones FIBES Sevilla, Seville^[13] ^[14]
	January 25, 2020^[15]	Pain and Glory		Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena, Málaga^[16] ^[17]
	March 6, 2021^[18] ^[19]	Schoolgirls	Antonio Banderas, María Casado	, Málaga
	February 12, 2022^[20]	The Good Boss	No host (collective)	Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia^[21]
	February 11, 2023	The Beasts	Antonio de la Torre, Clara Lago^[22]	Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones FIBES Sevilla, Seville^[23] ^[24]
	February 10, 2024	Society of the Snow		, Valladolid^[25]
39th Goya Awards	February 8, 2025			, Granada^[26] ^[27]

Trivia

"Big Five" winners and nominees

Winners

The following is a list of films that won the awards for Best Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay (original or adapted).

• ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990): Director (Carlos Saura), adapted screenplay (Rafael Azcona and Carlos Saura), Actor (Andrés Pajares) and Actress (Carmen Maura).
• Take My Eyes (2003): Director (Icíar Bollaín), original screenplay (Icíar Bollaín), Actor (Luis Tosar) and Actress (Laia Marull).
• The Sea Inside (2004): Director (Alejandro Amenábar), original screenplay (Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil), Actor (Javier Bardem) and Actress (Lola Dueñas).

Nominees

Four awards won

• Belle Époque (1992): won Film, Director (Fernando Trueba), original screenplay (Rafael Azcona, José Luis García Sánchez and Fernando Trueba) and Actress (Ariadna Gil); lost Actor (Jorge Sanz).
• Running Out of Time (1994): won Film, Director (Imanol Uribe), adapted screenplay (Imanol Uribe) and Actor (Carmelo Gómez); lost Actress (Ruth Gabriel).
• Lucky Star (1997): won Film, Director (Ricardo Franco), original screenplay (Ricardo Franco and Ángeles González-Sinde) and Actor (Antonio Resines); lost Actress (Maribel Verdú).
• Pain and Glory (2019): won Film, Director (Pedro Almodóvar), original screenplay (Pedro Almodóvar) and Actor (Antonio Banderas); lost Actress (Penélope Cruz).
• The Beasts (2022): won Film, Director (Rodrigo Sorogoyen), Original Screenplay (Isabel Peña and Rodrigo Sorogoyen), Actor (Denis Ménochet); lost Actress (Marina Foïs).

Three awards won

• Blancanieves (2012): won Film, Actress (Maribel Verdú) and original screenplay (Pablo Berger); lost Director (Pablo Berger) and Actor (Daniel Giménez Cacho).

Two awards won

• Lovers (1991): won Film and Director (Vicente Aranda); lost original screenplay (Álvaro del Amo, Carlos Pérez Merinero and Vicente Aranda), Actor (Jorge Sanz), Actress (Victoria Abril and Maribel Verdú).
• The Girl of Your Dreams (1998): won Film and Actress (Penélope Cruz); lost Director (Fernando Trueba), original screenplay (Rafael Azcona, David Trueba, Carlos López and Miguel Ángel Egea) and Actor (Antonio Resines).

One award won

• Pan's Labyrinth (2006): won original screenplay (Guillermo del Toro); lost Film, Director (Guillermo del Toro), Actor (Sergi López) and Actress (Maribel Verdú).
• The Skin I Live In (2011): won Actress (Elena Anaya); lost Film, Director (Pedro Almodóvar), original screenplay (Pedro Almodóvar) and Actor (Antonio Banderas).
• Magical Girl (2014): won Actress (Bárbara Lennie); lost Film, Director (Carlos Vermut), original screenplay (Carlos Vermut) and Actor (Luis Bermejo)
• The Endless Trench (2019): won Actress (Belén Cuesta); lost Film, Director (Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga), original screenplay (José Mari Goenaga and Luiso Berdejo) and Actor (Antonio de la Torre)

No award won

• Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990): lost Film, Director (Pedro Almodóvar), original screenplay (Pedro Almodóvar), Actor (Antonio Banderas) and Actress (Victoria Abril).
• The Artist and the Model (2012): lost Film, Director (Fernando Trueba), original screenplay (Fernando Trueba and Jean-Claude Carrière), Actor (Jean Rochefort) and Actress (Aida Folch).
• The Bride (2015): lost Film, Director (Paula Ortiz), adapted screenplay (Javier García and Paula Ortiz), Actor (Asier Etxeandia) and Actress (Inma Cuesta)

Multiple wins

The following is a list of films with six or more awards.14 wins

• The Sea Inside (2004)

13 wins

• ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990)

12 wins

• Society of the Snow (2023)

10 wins

• Blancanieves (2012)
• Marshland (2014)
• Giant (2017)

9 wins

• Belle Époque (1992)
• Black Bread (2010)
• A Monster Calls (2016)
• The Beasts (2022)

8 wins

• The Dumbfounded King (1991)
• Running Out of Time (1994)
• Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995)
• The Others (2001)
• Cell 211 (2009)
• Witching and Bitching (2013)

7 wins

• Tesis (1996)
• The Dog in the Manger (1996)
• The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
• All About My Mother (1999)
• Take My Eyes (2003)
• Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
• The Orphanage (2007)
• Agora (2009)
• The Realm (2018)
• Pain and Glory (2019)

6 wins

• Rowing with the Wind (1988)
• Twisted Obsession (1989)
• Banderas, the Tyrant (1993)
• The Day of the Beast (1995)
• Camino (2008)
• No Rest for the Wicked (2011)
• Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013)
• The Good Boss (2021)

Multiple nominations

The following is a list of films with ten or more nominations.20 nominations

• The Good Boss (2021)

19 nominations

• Running Out of Time (1994)

18 nominations

• The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
• Blancanieves (2012)

17 nominations

• Belle Époque (1992)
• Marshland (2014)
• While at War (2019)
• The Beasts (2022)

16 nominations

• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
• Cell 211 (2009)
• The Skin I Live In (2011)
• Unit 7 (2012)
• El Niño (2014)
• Pain and Glory (2019)
• Prison 77 (2022)

15 nominations

• ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990)
• Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990)
• La comunidad (2000)
• The Others (2001)
• The Sea Inside (2004)
• Alatriste (2006)
• The Blind Sunflowers (2008)
• The Last Circus (2010)
• The Endless Trench (2019)
• 20,000 Species of Bees (2023)

14 nominations

• The Dumbfounded King (1991)
• The Day of the Beast (1995)
• All About My Mother (1999)
• You're the One (2000)
• Volver (2006)
• The Orphanage (2007)
• 13 Roses (2007)
• Black Bread (2010)
• No Rest for the Wicked (2011)
• The Impossible (2012)
• Maixabel (2021)

13 nominations

• Rowing with the Wind (1988)
• The Grandfather (1998)
• Butterfly's Tongue (1999)
• Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
• Agora (2009)
• Even the Rain (2010)
• The Artist and the Model (2012)
• Giant (2017)
• The Realm (2018)
• Adú (2020)
• Society of the Snow (2023)

12 nominations

• The Turkish Passion (1994)
• The Dog in the Manger (1996)
• Juana the Mad (2001)
• Eva (2011)
• The Bride (2015)
• A Monster Calls (2016)
• The Bookshop (2017)

11 nominations

• Esquilache (1989)
• The Fencing Master (1992)
• Canción de cuna (1994)
• Solas (1999)
• Sex and Lucía (2001)
• Don't Tempt Me (2001)
• Salvador (2006)
• Just Walking (2008)
• Blackthorn (2011)
• La gran familia española (2013)
• Smoke & Mirrors (2016)
• The Fury of a Patient Man (2016)
• Champions (2018)
• Alcarràs (2022)
• Lullaby (2022)
• Close Your Eyes (2023)
• Jokes & Cigarettes (2023)

10 nominations

• Moon Child (1989)
• The Sea and the Weather (1989)
• Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995)
• Open Your Eyes (1997)
• Goya in Bordeaux (1999)
• Obaba (2005)
• Seven Billiard Tables (2007)
• Buried (2010)
• Witching and Bitching (2013)

See also

• List of film awards

External links

• Official Premios Goya website
• Official Spanish Cinema Academy website
• Goya Awards on IMDb

Notes and References

1. Web site: 30 años de Goya. Diario Sur. 29 January 2016.
2. Web site: The Goya 2019 awards gala will be held in Seville.. 2021-09-09. www.hoteleuropasevilla.com.
3. Web site: López. Francisco Griñán / Antonio Javier. 2021-03-07. The stars shone ? virtually ? for Spain's Goya film academy awards in Malaga. 2021-09-09. surinenglish.com. en. 2021-09-09. https://web.archive.org/web/20210909192006/http://www.surinenglish.com/lifestyle/202103/07/stars-shined-virtually-spain-20210307084602.html. dead.
4. Web site: Lang. Jamie. 2020-07-01. Global Bulletin: Antonio Banderas to Host Spanish Academy Goya Awards in Malaga. 2021-09-09. Variety. en-US.
5. https://www.premiosgoya.com/los-goya/la-estatuilla-de-los-premios-goya/ History of the statue
6. http://www.academiadecine.com/premios/premiosgoya.php?id_s=2&id_ss=29 History of the Goya Awards
7. Web site: Alexandra. Benito. 10 February 2022. Las mejores anécdotas de los Goya: del premio al rey Juan Carlos al ladrón de 'cabezones'. Vanitatis. El Confidencial.
8. 'Marshland' Top Winner at Spain's Goya Awards . . Rolfe . Pamela . February 7, 2015 . December 13, 2017.
9. News: Agencias . La gala de los Premios Goya se celebrará el próximo 3 de febrero . September 8, 2017 . December 13, 2017 . . es.
10. News: Europa Press . Europa Press (news agency) . Joaquín Reyes y Ernesto Sevilla presentarán la gala de los Goya 2018 . December 13, 2017 . December 13, 2017 . . Madrid . es.
11. News: EFE . Andreu Buenafuente y Silvia Abril presentarán la próxima gala de los Goya . June 9, 2018 . June 9, 2018 . . es.
12. News: Sílvia Abril y Buenafuente repiten como presentadores de los Goya . November 26, 2019 . November 26, 2019 . premiosgoya.com . es.
13. News: G.B. . Los Goya 2019 se celebrarán en Sevilla . July 9, 2018 . July 9, 2018 . . es.
14. News: Los Goya 2019 se celebrarán en Sevilla . July 10, 2018 . July 10, 2018 . premiosgoya.com . es.
15. News: Ruiz. Isabel. Los Goya 2020 de Málaga ya tienen fecha: 25 de enero. July 30, 2019 . July 30, 2019 . . es.
16. News: EFE. La gala de los Premios Goya 2020 será en Málaga en enero . July 29, 2019 . July 29, 2019 . . es.
17. News: Griñán. Francisco . Málaga será la sede de los Goya en 2020 . July 29, 2019 . July 29, 2019 . . es.
18. News: Antonio Banderas y María Casado dirigirán y presentarán la próxima gala de los Goya. July 1, 2020 . July 1, 2020 . . es.
19. News: Los Goya se entregarán en Málaga el 6 de marzo, una semana después de lo previsto. September 14, 2020 . September 12, 2020 . . es.
20. News: La gala de los Goya de Valencia será la de "los premios del reencuentro". September 10, 2021 . September 10, 2021 . . es.
21. News: Valencia acogerá los Goya 2022. July 21, 2020 . July 31, 2020 . premiosgoya.com . es.
22. Web site: Cine Antonio de la Torre y Clara Lago presentarán los Premios Goya 2023. rtve.es. 15 November 2022.
23. Web site: Los Premios Goya vuelven a Sevilla en 2023. Diario de Sevilla. 31 May 2022.
24. Web site: Sevilla acogerá el 11 de febrero la ceremonia de entrega de los Premios Goya 2023. La Vanguardia. es-ES. 29 June 2022.
25. Web site: Ana Belén, Javier Ambrossi y Javier Calvo presentarán los Premios Goya. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. 30 October 2023.
26. Web site: Los Premios Goya 2024 se celebrarán en Valladolid y los de 2025 en Granada. rtve.es. 30 March 2023.
27. Web site: Los Goya en Granada se celebrarán el 8 de febrero de 2025. Los Goya en Granada se celebrarán el 8 de febrero de 2025. 3 April 2024. 5 April 2024.