The 37th Goya Awards gala has just started at the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses in Seville with a huge background photo of the director Carlos Saura.
The guests, on their way down the red carpet, have remembered the director, who died this Friday at the age of 91.
"I'm sorry I can't be with you", the filmmaker has written in a letter that his wife, Eulalia Ramón, has read on stage, where she has made a plea for public health.
Saura will receive the Goya de Honor posthumously.
The director Carla Simón, one of the favorites of the night, has recalled the "unlimited creative freedom" of the filmmaker.
The actors Antonio de la Torre and Clara Lago are hosting the gala in a year considered almost unanimously as the best year for Spanish cinema.
as beasts
, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, leads the awards race with 17 nominations and favorite status, after recent victories at the Forqué and Feroz awards.
Alcarràs,
by Carla Simón,
Five wolves,
by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa;
La Maternal,
by Pilar Palomero, and
Modelo 77,
by Alberto Rodríguez, are the other candidates for the Best Film award.
The international Goya is in this edition for the French actress Juliette Binoche.
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The red carpet of the Goya awards 2023
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Carlos Saura's family makes a plea in defense of public health
The family of filmmaker Carlos Saura, who died yesterday at the age of 91, has collected the Goya de Honor that the Academy had awarded him.
During the thank you speech, at the beginning of the gala, Saura's widow, Eulalia Ramón, made a plea in defense of public health.
"Public health deserves that we take care of it just as public personnel take care of us."
Saura's wife, Eulalia Ramón, has read a letter that the filmmaker had written: "I regret not being able to be with you."
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 22:29
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Poster placed in the Fibes of Seville for the Goya ceremony.
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The Film Academy has prepared an anti-sexual harassment protocol
The Spanish Film Academy has prepared a protocol against sexual harassment for the Goya Awards night party, after the two complaints of assaults at the subsequent celebration of the Feroz Awards, organized by the Association of Film Informants of Spain on last weekend in Zaragoza.
These are some of the posters that can be seen at the Fibes in Seville.
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The actress Eulalia Ramón, second from the right, widow of director Carlos Saura, and her children Carlos and Ana collect the Goya de Honor during the gala.
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The legacy of Carlos Saura marks the start of the Goya ceremony
Carlos Saura's career has been so long that he has worked with various generations of performers.
On the blue carpet it has been curious to see how the younger filmmakers and actors have chosen 'Quick, quick', because of how the canonical filmmaker understood a new batch of young Spaniards.
Carla Simón herself says that she feels that her protagonist could be her mother.
Juan Diego Botto and Penélope Cruz have chosen the same film.
After the longest applause in the history of the Goyas, Anna Saura, Antonio Saura and Eulalia Ramón have collected the Goya de Honor from Carmen Maura, their mythical Carmela from 'Ay, Carmela'.
Anna has talked about culture, about that legacy, while Antonio Saura Medrano, a film producer and sometimes his father, has talked about the four women who gave him seven children,
that accompanied and encouraged his career.
Eulalia Ramón had in her hand the letter that Carlos Saura dictated to her at home, one of the secrets of the ceremony.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 22:29
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Goya Awards
The best year of Spanish cinema pays tribute to Carlos Saura at the Goyas
Tommaso KochAmalia Bulnes
The Goyas were going to give him a moment.
The great moment of him.
His life, however, had other designs: Carlos Saura passed away this Friday at the age of 91 and could not receive the Honor award from his colleagues.
But, then, the entire event itself has become a huge recognition of the Aragonese genius.
“Without a doubt, the last great director in the history of Spanish cinema has left.
It is incredible that they had not already given him an award like that”, said Maribel Verdú, who worked with him at Goya in Bordeaux.
Although, deep down, the crop of films nominated for the awards of this 2023 already represented the greatest tribute to Saura: his gala is also that of the best year of Spanish cinema.
Quality as a farewell banner for him, as a legacy of the eternal filmmaker to those who come after him.
The master showed the way for decades.
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ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 22:15
Tommaso KochCultural journalist at EL PAÍS
The scene of the Goya ceremony, with the image of Carlos Saura in the background and the singer Manuel Carrasco during their performance, this Saturday in Seville.
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First of all, Carlos Saura
When the light comes on on the stage of the 37th edition of the Goyas, the first thing you see is an image of Carlos Saura.
Accompanied, by the way, by his inseparable camera.
It could not be otherwise: all Spanish cinema and the gala, of course, have been shocked by the death of the Aragonese maestro at the age of 91.
Manuel Carrasco sings and plays, and he is joined by the presenters, Antonio de la Torre and Clara Lago, along with other protagonists of Spanish cinema.
"It would take a thousand finery like this to honor his legacy," says De la Torre at the beginning of the ceremony.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 22:16
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The Goyas recover the musical numbers
The Goya ceremony has opened with a musical number led by the singer Manuel Carrasco interpreting the song
Cantares,
based on the poem by Antonio Machado.
The interpreter has been accompanied by the presenters of the gala reciting some verses.
Moments later, a group of actors joined, including Maribel Verdú, Miriam Díaz Aroca, Amaia Salamanca, among others.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 22:15
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the gala begins
The gala begins at this moment with a performance by Manuel Carrasco and a photo by Carlos Saura.
The stage of the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses of Seville is already prepared to receive the presenters of this year's gala, the actors Clara Lago and Antonio de la Torre.
The celebration is expected to last around three hours.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 22:07
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Yolanda Díaz celebrates the presence of women and the variety of themes in the films: "They are all great"
Vice President Yolanda Díaz has assured on the red carpet of the Goya Awards that she would not know how to choose a favorite film from among all the nominees.
"I can't say which one. They're all great," she has stated, as she has celebrated the broad-mindedness of the films' themes.
"I think that women are taking a step forward and that Spanish cinema is opening up to themes that have a different perspective: families, motherhood and the relationship of cities with the rural world," Díaz described.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 22:08
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The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, and the film director Fernando Méndez-Leite, pose on the red carpet of the Goya gala.
/ Jorge Zapata / EFE
President Sánchez, at the gala
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, has traveled to Seville this Saturday to follow the Goya ceremony.
In the image he appears together with the film director Fernando Méndez-Leite.
"I hope that the film law can have the support of all political groups," said Sánchez in the broadcast of Televisión Española.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 22:03
Tommaso KochCultural journalist at EL PAÍS
Sorogoyen: "Would Carlos Saura do it?"
Rodrigo Sorogoyen has shared a joke he makes with his co-writer, Isabel Peña, on the red carpet: “When we are not convinced by a script we are working on, we ask ourselves: 'Would Carlos Saura do it?'
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 21:55
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Penélope Cruz remembers Carlos Saura: “He was a very loved person and with enormous talent.
I remember how he called me 'Hurry up, hurry up' or 'Oh, Carmela'
Penélope Cruz has explained that Carlos Saura was a director who had an important mark on her: “He was a very good person, very loved and with an enormous talent.
I remember how seeing 'Hurry, hurry' at an age for which she was not yet ready or 'Oh, Carmela' marked me”.
She has also stated that she dreamed of working with him and has admired his connection to the world of dance.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 21:54
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Maribel Verdú: "I find it incredible that Carlos Saura did not yet have such an important award"
By Amalia Bulnes from Seville.
Goya in Bordeaux
was the film that, in 1999, united the actress Maribel Verdú with the filmmaker Carlos Saura: "In all these years we have done everything together, we have traveled, we have eaten and discussed, we have laughed...", he recalled the actress on the red carpet.
It is perhaps because of this personal appreciation that Verdú wanted to protest because the recognitions are always so late despite careers as brilliant as those of the Aragonese filmmaker: “It seems incredible to me that she still did not have the Goya de Honor.
Saura is, without a doubt, the last great director in the history of Spanish cinema”.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 22:02
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The director Alberto Rodríguez upon his arrival on the red carpet of the Goya Awards.
/ Jorge Zapata / EFE
Alberto Rodríguez: "Carlos Saura was one of the signatories of the amnesty manifesto for the prisoners of 'Modelo 77'"
By Amalia Bulnes (Seville).
The Sevillian director Alberto Rodríguez, responsible for the second most nominated film of the night,
Modelo 77
, had some words of special admiration for Carlos Saura, a filmmaker "with an unprecedented capacity for analyzing a society".
So much so that Rodríguez wanted to remember Saura's political and social commitment, which brings him closer to his latest film: "He was one of the intellectuals who signed the manifesto for amnesty for prisoners during the Transition", an episode in the history of Spain on which, precisely, the argument of
Modelo 77
revolves .
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 22:01
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Penélope and Eduardo Cruz at the Goya gala.
/ Alejandro Ruesga
Penelope and Eduardo Cruz arrive on the red carpet
The brothers Penelope and Eduardo Cruz have arrived on the red carpet dressed in black.
They are candidates for best song and best supporting actress for
En los margínes
, the eviction drama directed by Juan Diego Botto.
Penélope Cruz trusted once again in her leading signature: Chanel.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 21:46
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The actress Carmen Machi on the red carpet of the Goya 2023. / Carlos Alvarez / Getty Images
Carmen Machi: "The words have to change today, we are all in 'shock'"
By Amalia Bulnes (Seville).
Visibly moved, actress Carmen Machi, nominated for Best Supporting Actress for
Cerdita
, recalled Carlos Saura as the director who taught her to love cinema with Cría cuervos: “I am the same age as Ana Torrent and I remember how I felt impact".
“What a strange day today”, the actress acknowledged in the moments before the gala: “The words have to change today, we are all in
shock
.
Although on the other hand you say, "how smart", because this today has no choice but to be absolutely dedicated to him ".
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 21:32
Tommaso KochCultural journalist at EL PAÍS
The 'sheet' of the shorts
The Goya gala often serves as a loudspeaker for claims, both in the speeches of the winners and before, on and off the red carpet.
For years there were protests by the extras before the entrance to Madrid, red fans to ask for “more women” and, this year, some nominees wear a badge with the message “The short is cinema”.
The initiative, promoted by the main associations of the sector, calls for the creation of "an official body that centralizes and coordinates all the issues of the short film, as well as the annual investment of televisions and platforms of at least 1% destined to the purchase of rights of short films about the project”.
Despite its low visibility since, since 1986, its screening in theaters is no longer required by law, the Spanish short brims with talent and recognition,
Sevilla Spain)
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 21:13
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Stage of the 2023 Goya Awards held at the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses of Seville.
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This is the stage of the gala
This is how the Film Academy has dressed the stage of the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses of Seville for this year's Goya.
Starting at 10:00 p.m., the presenters Antonio de la Torre and Clara Lago and the winners will pass through this set to collect their prizes.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 21:10
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Sara Sálamo: "I wanted to come without makeup to promote naturalness, so that we feel comfortable being ourselves"
The actress Sara Sálamo has arrived on the red carpet in a white Armani dress, with transparencies and colored flowers and “with a clean face”.
She has explained that she wanted to make the bet of going without makeup "to promote naturalness" and for women to feel comfortable being themselves.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 21:05
Amalia Bulnes
Saura's letter to Carla Simón
María Zamora and Carla Simón, producer and director of
Alcarràs
, have revealed that Carlos Saura sent them a letter when they won the Golden Bear in Berlin "to encourage us to continue working freely". Both have remembered him as that "free creator of limitless creative freedom that he has left us as a legacy.” These were words of enormous affection for the Aragonese filmmaker, who since Carla Simón's debut with
Verano 1993
had declared himself an admirer of his work.
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The director Fernando León de Aranoa poses upon his arrival at the Goya.
/ LAURA LEON / AP
Fernando León de Aranoa: "Carlos Saura changed Spanish cinema with 'Deprisa, deprisa'
By Amalia Bulnes from Seville.
The filmmaker Fernando León de Aranoa, nominated for best documentary film for
Feeling it a lot
, yesterday remembered a Carlos Saura with whom he was lucky to cross paths through Elías Querejeta, he told EL PAÍS on the red carpet.
León de Aranoa assures that he keeps in his house a poster of the film
Quick, quick
, "a fundamental film because it changes many things in Spanish cinema."
And he explains: “Until then he had made many very intellectual films, from another sphere, and suddenly he took to the streets, to the things you saw on the news, it is a very street movie.
There are many things to be thankful for."
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 21:11
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The director Isabel Coixet poses upon arrival at the Goya Awards.
/ Jorge Zapata / EFE
Isabel Coixet's feminist message at the Goya gala: "Women, life, freedom"
The director Isabel Coixet, nominated for best documentary for
El techo amarillo
, has attended the Goya ceremony dressed in a black jacket that had a white feminist message: "Women, life, freedom" (in Spanish, women, life , libertad"). His film gives voice to the victims of Lleida theater teacher Antonio Gómez, a sexual predator, and dissects the boundaries between consent and abuse.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 20:54
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The red carpet of the Goya Awards 2023, live
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reviews all the
looks
of the guests at the 37th edition of the Goya Awards, which this year is held in Seville.
Antonio de la Torre and Clara Lago are the presenters of the gala, marked by the death of director Carlos Saura, who was awarded the Goya of honor a few days ago.
The guests and nominated artists are already parading down the red carpet to access the event.
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all the
looks
.
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The director Laura Hojman on the red carpet of the Goya 2023. / JORGE GUERRERO / AFP
Laura Hojman: "Today women have a new voice thanks to María Lejárraga"
By Amalia Bulnes from Seville.
Sevillian Laura Hojman nominated for best documentary with her feature
De ella María Lejárraga.
To the women of Spain
, arrives at the Goya Awards ceremony after having been in the pools of all the great national awards thanks to this work that recovers the figure of this writer from the Generation of '27 who worked all her life in the shadow of her husband, Gregorio Martínez Sierra, the name with which he signed all his works.
"This documentary has been worth it just to see the enthusiasm it has aroused in a multitude of women who have ever needed to raise their voices."
Conscious, however, of the competence with which she faces the night, Hojman celebrates a victory already as a match point.
"We are a small production company that believes that independent cinema is in itself a path to get there, so for us tonight is already a real gift."
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 21:15
Tommaso Cascino Tommaso Koch
Imagen de los periodistas que aguardan la llegada de los asistentes a la gala. / PACO PUENTES
El mejor año del cine español para la crítica, pero no para el público
Tanto los protagonistas del sector como la prensa especializada parecen coincidir en una afirmación: los Goya 2023 acogen la mejor cosecha del cine español en años. O, quizás, en la historia. La alta calidad media de los filmes, sin embargo, no ha atraído mucho al público: las cinco nominadas a mejor película (As bestas, Alcarràs, Cinco lobitos, Modelo 77 y La Maternal) supusieron el 2,45% de las entradas vendidas en las salas españolas en 2022, cruzando datos del Instituto de la cinematografía y las artes audiovisuales y de la consultora ComScore. O, dicho de otra forma, más de 97 espectadores de cada 100 eligieron otra cosa. Por ejemplo, Avatar: el sentido del agua. Pero, también, otro cineasta español: Santiago Segura, con la tercera entrega de Padre no hay más que uno, sumó más asistentes el año pasado que las cinco candidatas a mejor filme de los Goya juntas.
Sevilla (ESPAÑA)
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Antonio de la Torre posa en la alfombra roja de los Goya. / JORGE GUERRERO / AFP
Antonio De la Torre: “Carlos Saura era un maestro en la colocación de la cámara”
Por Amalia Bulnes desde Sevilla. Para Antonio de la Torre, actor andaluz y presentador de la gala, una de las películas que más le han gustado en su vida es Deprisa, deprisa (Carlos Saura, 1981): “Fue toda una novedad en cuanto a la manera de contar, de interpretar, como manejaba la cámara….”, ha recordado De la Torre a su paso por la alfombra roja. Igualmente, ha tenido palabras para la “excelencia absoluta en el homenaje que le hizo a Sevilla con la película Sevillanas". Pero, ha insistido, “dónde era un maestro es en la colocación de la cámara”.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 21:16
El País
Este será el orden de entrega de los Premios Goya 2023
El primero de los 30 galardones será para el mejor actor de reparto. La intérprete secundaria será la cuarta categoría en anunciarse. El otro premio ya conocido, el Goya Internacional para Juliette Binoche, también se entregará hacia el comienzo de la noche. El reconocimiento al mejor montaje llegará en el puesto 12. Y, a partir del 18º cabezón, se asignarán uno tras otro todos los más esperados: dirección novel, guion original y adaptado, filme de animación, documental, actor y actriz protagonistas, dirección y película. Se ha mantenido como sorpresa cuándo se entregará el Goya de Honor para Carlos Saura como galardón póstumo.
Aquí está el orden de entrega detallado:
1. Mejor Actor de Reparto
2. Mejor Maquillaje y Peluquería
3. Mejores Efectos Especiales
4. Mejor Actriz de Reparto
5. Mejor Actor Revelación
6. Mejor Dirección de Arte
7. Mejor Sonido
8. Mejor Diseño de Vestuario
9. Mejor Película Iberoamericana
10. Mejor Dirección de Producción
11. Mejor Dirección de Fotografía
12. Mejor Montaje
13. Mejor Película Europea
Goya Internacional
14. Mejor Actriz Revelación
15. Mejor Cortometraje de Ficción
16. Mejor Cortometraje Documental
17. Mejor Cortometraje de Animación
18. Mejor Dirección Novel
19. Mejor Canción Original
20. Mejor Música Original
Discurso del Presidente de la Academia
21. Mejor Guion Original
22. Mejor Guion Adaptado
23. Mejor Película de Animación
24. Mejor Película Documental
25. Mejor Actor Protagonista
26. Actriz Protagonista
27. Mejor Dirección
28. Mejor Película
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 20:14
El País
Cuándo y dónde ver la gala
La alfombra roja ha arrancado a las 18.15 y terminará a las 21.30. La ceremonia empezará a las 22.00 y está previsto que su duración roce (o supere) las tres horas. Tanto el desfile de las estrellas como la propia entrega de premios podrá verse en La1 de RTVE a partir de las 19.30. EL PAÍS está compartiendo imágenes en directo desde la alfombra roja y entrevistas con los invitados. También puedes seguir lo más comentado de la gala en las redes del periódico.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 20:45
El País
Buenas noches. Empieza la narración en directo de la ceremonia de los Goya
La ciudad de Sevilla acoge este sábado la gran gala de los Premios Goya en su 37ª edición. La ceremonia será presentada por los actores Antonio de la Torre y Clara Lago en un año considerado casi por unanimidad como el mejor año del cine español. As bestas, de Rodrigo Sorogoyen, lidera la carrera a los premios con 17 nominaciones y el estatus de favorita, tras las recientes victorias en los premios Forqué y Feroz. Alcarràs, de Carla Simón, Cinco lobitos, de Alauda Ruiz de Azúa; La Maternal, de Pilar Palomero, y Modelo 77
, by Alberto Rodríguez, are the other candidates for the best film award.
The order of the awards ceremony has been changed.
There is a surprise, which is not on the list sent to journalists, and which will coincide with one of the most emotional moments: the posthumous delivery of the Goya de Honor to the director Carlos Saura, who died this Friday at the age of 91.
The filmmaker has left a letter that they will read during the ceremony.
ACT.11 FEB 2023 - 20:46