Goya Awards

The Goya Awards (Spanish: Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards. They are presented by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.

Goya Awards
Current: 39th Goya Awards
Awarded for	Best in film
Country	Spain
Presented by	Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España
First award	1987
Website	Official Premios Goya website

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, Valladolid, and Granada).

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.^[1] 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.^{[citation needed]} The 2019 and 2023 editions of the awards took place in Seville,^[2] and in 2020 and 2021 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 cabezón (plural: 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 Ibero-American 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
1st	17 March 1987	Voyage to Nowhere	Fernando Rey	Teatro Lope de Vega, Madrid
2nd	22 March 1988	El bosque animado		Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid
3rd	21 March 1989	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown	Verónica Forqué, Antonio Resines
4th	10 March 1990	Twisted Obsession	Carmen Maura, Andrés Pajares
5th	16 February 1991	¡Ay Carmela!	Lydia Bosch, Jorge Sanz
6th	7 March 1992	Lovers	Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, José Coronado
7th	13 March 1993	Belle Époque	Imanol Arias
8th	21 January 1994	Todos a la cárcel	Rosa María Sardà
9th	21 January 1995	Running Out of Time	Imanol Arias
10th	25 January 1996	Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead	Verónica Forqué, Javier Gurruchaga	Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid
11th	25 January 1997	Thesis	Carmen Maura, Juanjo Puigcorbé
12th	31 January 1998	Lucky Star	El Gran Wyoming
13th	23 January 1999	The Girl of Your Dreams	Rosa María Sardà
14th	29 January 2000	All About My Mother	Antonia San Juan	L'Auditori, Barcelona
15th	3 February 2001	El Bola	María Barranco, José Coronado, Loles León, Imanol Arias, Concha Velasco, Pablo Carbonell [es]	Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid
16th	2 February 2002	The Others	Rosa María Sardà
17th	1 February 2003	Mondays in the Sun	Alberto San Juan, Guillermo Toledo
18th	31 January 2004	Take My Eyes	Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Diego Luna
19th	30 January 2005	The Sea Inside	Antonio Resines, Maribel Verdú, Montserrat Caballé
20th	29 January 2006	The Secret Life of Words	Concha Velasco, Antonio Resines
21st	28 January 2007	Volver	José Corbacho
22nd	3 February 2008	Solitary Fragments
23rd	1 February 2009	Camino	Carmen Machi, Muchachada Nui
24th	14 February 2010	Cell 211	Andreu Buenafuente
25th	13 February 2011	Black Bread		Teatro Real, Madrid
26th	19 February 2012	No Rest for the Wicked	Eva Hache	Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid
27th	17 February 2013	Blancanieves		Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid
28th	9 February 2014	Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed	Manel Fuentes [es]
29th	7 February 2015	Marshland[8]	Dani Rovira
30th	6 February 2016	Truman
31st	4 February 2017	The Fury of a Patient Man
32nd	3 February 2018[9]	The Bookshop	Joaquín Reyes, Ernesto Sevilla[10]
33rd	2 February 2019[11]	Champions	Silvia Abril, Andreu Buenafuente[11][12]	Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones FIBES Sevilla, Seville[13][14]
34th	25 January 2020[15]	Pain and Glory		Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena, Málaga[16][17]
35th	6 March 2021[18][19]	Schoolgirls	Antonio Banderas, María Casado[18]	Teatro del Soho CaixaBank [es], Málaga[18]
36th	12 February 2022[20]	The Good Boss	No host (collective)	Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia[21]
37th	11 February 2023	The Beasts	Antonio de la Torre, Clara Lago[22]	Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones FIBES Sevilla, Seville[23][24]
38th	10 February 2024	Society of the Snow	Ana Belén, Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo	Feria de Valladolid [es], Valladolid[25]
39th	8 February 2025	The 47 Undercover	Maribel Verdú, Leonor Watling	Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos de Granada [es], 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) The 47 (2024)

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) Undercover (2024) 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) Saturn Return (2024) 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) The Room Next Door (2024)

See also

• List of film awards

References

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External links

• (in Spanish) Official Premios Goya website
• (in Spanish) Official Spanish Cinema Academy website Archived 2018-09-17 at the Wayback Machine
• Goya Awards on IMDb