Goya Awards
The Goya Awards are Spain's main national annual film awards.
The awards were established in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, and the first awards ceremony took place on March 16, 1987 at the Teatro Lope de Vega, Madrid. The ceremony continues to take place annually at Centro de Congresos Príncipe Felipe, around the end of January/start of February, and awards are given to films produced during the previous year.
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.
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 inaugural ceremony took place on March 17, 1987 at the Lope de Vega theatre in Madrid. 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 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. In the 2019 edition, the awards took place in Seville, and in 2020, the ceremony was held in Málaga.Awards
The awards are currently delivered in 28 categories, excluding the Honorary Goya Award, with a maximum of four candidates for each from the XIII 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
- 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 Foreign Film in the Spanish Language
- Honorary Goya Award
Award ceremonies
Ceremony | Date | Best Picture winner | Host | Venue |
1st Goya Awards | March 17, 1987 | Voyage to Nowhere | Fernando Rey | Teatro Lope de Vega, Madrid |
2nd Goya Awards | March 22, 1988 | El bosque animado | Fernando Rey | :es:Palacio de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
3rd Goya Awards | March 21, 1989 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Verónica Forqué, Antonio Resines | :es:Palacio de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
4th Goya Awards | March 10, 1990 | Twisted Obsession | Carmen Maura, Andrés Pajares | :es:Palacio de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
5th Goya Awards | February 16, 1991 | ¡Ay Carmela! | Lydia Bosch, Jorge Sanz | :es:Palacio de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
6th Goya Awards | March 7, 1992 | Lovers | Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, José Coronado | :es:Palacio de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
7th Goya Awards | March 13, 1993 | Belle Époque | Imanol Arias | :es:Palacio de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
8th Goya Awards | January 21, 1994 | Todos a la cárcel | Rosa María Sardà | :es:Palacio de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
9th Goya Awards | January 21, 1995 | Running Out of Time | Imanol Arias | :es:Palacio de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
10th Goya Awards | January 25, 1996 | Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead | Verónica Forqué, Javier Gurruchaga | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
11th Goya Awards | January 25, 1997 | Thesis | Carmen Maura, Juanjo Puigcorbé | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
12th Goya Awards | January 31, 1998 | Lucky Star | El Gran Wyoming | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
13th Goya Awards | January 23, 1999 | The Girl of Your Dreams | Rosa María Sardà | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
14th Goya Awards | January 29, 2000 | All About My Mother | Antonia San Juan | L'Auditori, Barcelona |
15th Goya Awards | February 3, 2001 | El Bola | María Barranco, José Coronado, Loles León, Imanol Arias, Concha Velasco, Pablo Carbonell | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
16th Goya Awards | February 2, 2002 | The Others | Rosa María Sardà | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
17th Goya Awards | February 1, 2003 | Mondays in the Sun | Alberto San Juan, Guillermo Toledo | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
18th Goya Awards | January 31, 2004 | Take My Eyes | Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Diego Luna | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
19th Goya Awards | January 30, 2005 | The Sea Inside | Antonio Resines, Maribel Verdú, Montserrat Caballé | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
20th Goya Awards | January 29, 2006 | The Secret Life of Words | Concha Velasco, Antonio Resines | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
21st Goya Awards | January 28, 2007 | Volver | José Corbacho | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
22nd Goya Awards | February 3, 2008 | Solitary Fragments | José Corbacho | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
23rd Goya Awards | February 1, 2009 | Camino | Carmen Machi, Muchachada Nui | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
24th Goya Awards | February 14, 2010 | Cell 211 | Andreu Buenafuente | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
25th Goya Awards | February 13, 2011 | Black Bread | Andreu Buenafuente | Teatro Real, Madrid |
26th Goya Awards | February 19, 2012 | No Rest for the Wicked | Eva Hache | :es:Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid|Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
27th Goya Awards | February 17, 2013 | Blancanieves | Eva Hache | Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid |
28th Goya Awards | February 9, 2014 | Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed | Manel Fuentes | Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid |
29th Goya Awards | February 7, 2015 | Marshland | Dani Rovira | Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid |
30th Goya Awards | February 6, 2016 | Truman | Dani Rovira | Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid |
31st Goya Awards | February 4, 2017 | The Fury of a Patient Man | Dani Rovira | Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid |
32nd Goya Awards | February 3, 2018 | The Bookshop | Joaquín Reyes, Ernesto Sevilla | Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid |
33rd Goya Awards | February 2, 2019 | Champions | Silvia Abril, Andreu Buenafuente | Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones FIBES Sevilla, Seville |
34th Goya Awards | January 25, 2020 | Pain and Glory | Silvia Abril, Andreu Buenafuente | Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena, Málaga |
35th Goya Awards | February 27, 2021 | TBD | Antonio Banderas, María Casado | Teatro del Soho CaixaBank, Málaga |
36th Goya Awards | TBD, 2022 | TBD | TBD | TBD, Valencia |
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.- ¡Ay, Carmela! : Director, adapted screenplay, Actor and Actress.
- Take My Eyes : Director, original screenplay, Actor and Actress.
- The Sea Inside : Director, original screenplay, Actor and Actress.
Nominees
- Belle époque : won Film, Director, original screenplay and Actress ; lost Actor.
- Running Out of Time : won Film, Director, adapted screenplay and Actor ; lost Actress.
- Lucky Star : won Film, Director, original screenplay and Actor ; lost Actress.
- Pain and Glory : won Film, Director, original screenplay and Actor ; lost Actress.
- Blancanieves : won Film, Actress and original screenplay ; lost Director and Actor.
- Lovers : won Film and Director ; original screenplay, lost Actor, Actress.
- The Girl of Your Dreams : won Film and Actress ; lost Director, original screenplay and Actor.
- Pan's Labyrinth : won original screenplay ; lost Film, Director, Actor and Actress.
- The Skin I Live In : won Actress ; lost Film, Director, original screenplay and Actor.
- Magical Girl : won Actress ; lost Film, Director, original screenplay and Actor
- The Endless Trench : won Actress ; lost Film, Director, original screenplay and Actor
- Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! : lost Film, Director, original screenplay, Actor and Actress.
- The Artist and the Model : lost Film, Director, original screenplay, Actor and Actress.
- The Bride : lost Film, Director, adapted screenplay, Actor and Actress.
Multiple wins
14 wins
- The Sea Inside
- ¡Ay, Carmela!
- Blancanieves
- Marshland
- Giant
- Belle Époque
- Black Bread
- A Monster Calls
- The Dumbfounded King
- Running Out of Time
- Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
- The Others
- Cell 211
- Witching and Bitching
- Tesis
- The Dog in the Manger
- The Girl of Your Dreams
- All About My Mother
- Take My Eyes
- Pan's Labyrinth
- The Orphanage
- Agora
- The Realm
- Pain and Glory
- Rowing with the Wind
- Twisted Obsession
- Tirano Banderas
- The Day of the Beast
- Camino
- No Rest for the Wicked
- Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed''
Multiple nominations
19 nominations
- Running Out of Time
- The Girl of Your Dreams
- Blancanieves
- Belle Époque
- Marshland
- While at War
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
- Cell 211
- The Skin I Live In
- Unit 7
- El Niño
- Pain and Glory
- ¡Ay, Carmela!
- Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
- La comunidad
- The Others
- The Sea Inside
- Alatriste
- The Blind Sunflowers
- The Last Circus
- The Endless Trench
- The Dumbfounded King
- The Day of the Beast
- All About My Mother
- You're the One
- Volver
- The Orphanage
- 13 Roses
- Black Bread
- No Rest for the Wicked
- The Impossible
- Rowing with the Wind
- The Grandfather
- Butterfly's Tongue
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Agora
- Even the Rain
- The Artist and the Model
- Giant
- The Realm
- The Turkish Passion
- The Dog in the Manger
- Juana the Mad
- Eva
- The Bride
- A Monster Calls
- The Bookshop
- Esquilache
- The Fencing Master
- Canción de cuna
- Solas
- Sex and Lucía
- Don't Tempt Me
- Salvador
- Just Walking
- Blackthorn
- La gran familia española
- Smoke & Mirrors
- The Fury of a Patient Man
- Champions
- Moon Child
- The Sea and the Weather
- Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead
- Open Your Eyes
- Goya in Bordeaux
- Obaba
- Seven Billiard Tables
- Buried
- Witching and Bitching