Goya Awards
The Goya Awards 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.
History
To reward the best Spanish films of each year, the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain decided to create the Goya Awards, named after 18th-19th century painter Francisco Goya. 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. 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. The 2019 and 2023 editions of the awards took place in Seville, and in 2020 and 2021 in Málaga.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. The trophy sculpture is informally known as cabezón, '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 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
- Goya Award for [Best Animated Short Film|Best Animated Short Film]
- Best Documentary 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
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.
- The Beasts : won Film, Director, Original Screenplay, Actor ; lost Actress.
- Blancanieves : won Film, Actress and original screenplay ; lost Director and Actor.
- Lovers : won Film and Director ; lost original screenplay, 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
13 wins
12 wins
10 wins
9 wins
8 wins
- 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 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
- Banderas, the Tyrant
- The [Day of the Beast |The Day of the Beast]
- Camino
- No Rest for the Wicked
- Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed
- ''The Good Boss''
Multiple nominations
20 nominations
19 nominations
18 nominations
17 nominations
16 nominations
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
- Cell 211
- The Skin I Live In
- Unit 7
- El Niño
- Pain and Glory
- Prison 77
- ¡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
- 20,000 Species of Bees
- 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
- Maixabel
- The 47
- Rowing with the Wind
- The Grandfather
- Butterfly's Tongue
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Agora
- Even the Rain
- The Artist and the Model
- Giant
- The Realm
- Adú
- Society of the Snow
- Undercover
11 nominations
- 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
- Alcarràs
- Lullaby
- Close Your Eyes
- Jokes & Cigarettes
- Saturn Return