“My home is Spanish cinema, and this success is yours.”
This is how Juan Antonio Bayona thanked the last of the Goya awards for
The Snow Society,
his vigorous, sensitive, exciting and impeccably crafted recreation of the aviation accident in the Andes, on October 13, 1972, when a plane crashed in the range.
On board, five crew members and 40 passengers.
From there 16 survivors emerged, “in an immense act of solidarity,” recalled producer Sandra Hermida, with the Goya for best film in her hand.
And this is how he defined the work of his team on a night in which the Film Academy left behind its fears of platforms — the film is produced by Netflix due to the impossibility of raising the budget (almost 60 million euros) through the usual channels. — and awarded a film with a red N at the beginning.
Also in this way he revered the ambition of a creator who seeks more and more in his art every day, without ever looking back.
And he supported an artist who supports his teams and reflects daily on the future of cinema: “We must warn about the health of Spanish cinema.
Budgets are increasingly scarce, and the less money there is, the fewer spectators go to theaters.
Be careful with that direct relationship.”
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The winners of the Goya Awards
With
A Monster Comes to See Me,
Juan Antonio Bayona's team had won nine Goya awards.
Last night, in an impressive start to the gala, after the first two awards, for which it was not competing, it took home ten statuettes: costume design, editing, makeup and hair (which will also be at the Oscars), direction of art, photography direction, production direction, special effects, sound, original music (for Michael Giacchino, the star composer of the Pixar studio) and, in one of the surprises of the ceremony, revelation actor, for the Argentine Matías Recalt, who gives life to Roberto Canessa.
In the second part of the ceremony, the filmmaker only went up to collect the directing award, with which he reached a curious milestone: he has won it four times, equaling Fernando León.
With the best address, he assured: “At 4,000 meters, in front of the graves of the deceased, I asked the families for permission to tell this story.
I hope I lived up to it,” says Bayona.
“For 10 years they told us that a film of this ambition could not be made in Spanish,” he noted.
“I thank the public,” and he dedicated the trophy to him.
The Snow Society
is the third film in history with the most awards in Spanish cinema, after
Sea Inside
and
¡Ay, Carmela!
All the winners pose with their respective Goyas after the end of the gala.Mariscal (EFE)
In the center, Juan Antonio Bayona collects the award for best film for 'The Snow Society', in the company of the cast of 'All About My Mother'.Jaime Villanueva
Actress Malena Alterio poses with the Goya for best leading actress for her work in 'Let Nobody Sleep'. Emilio Fraile
David Verdaguer raises the Goya for best leading actor for 'Saben That'. Jaime Villanueva
Malena Alterio holds the Goya for best leading actress for Let Nobody Sleep. Jaime Villanueva
David Verdaguer raises the Goya for best leading actor for 'Saben That' during the 'photocall'. Emilio Fraile
Family photograph of the winners at the award ceremony of the 38th edition of the Goya Awards held this Saturday in Valladolid. Emilio Fraile
The director of 'Robot dreams', Pablo Berger, hugs producer Sandra Tapia after winning best adapted screenplay.ANA BELTRAN (REUTERS)
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren collects his second goya for best original script '20,000 species of bees', Jaime Villanueva
The 'Robot Dreams' team poses with the award for best animated film for 'Robot Dreams'. Emilio Fraile
The director and screenwriter Estibaliz Urresola poses with the two awards won for '20,000 species of bees'. Emilio Fraile
Ane Gabarain poses with the award for best supporting actress for her work in '20,000 species of bees'. Emilio Fraile
Ane Gabarain (on the left), accompanied by Sofía Otero and Aitana Sánchez Gijón after receiving the Goya for best supporting actress for her work in '20,000 species of bees'.Jaime Villanueva
Actress Janet Novás at the photocall after receiving the Goya for best new actress for her work in 'O corno'. Carlos Álvarez (Getty Images)
Juan Antonio Bayona, during his gratitude for the best direction for 'The Snow Society'.
Jaime Villanueva
The actress Janet Novás, after receiving the Goya for best new actress for her work in 'O corno'.Jaime Villanueva
Director Mabel Lozano poses at the photocall after receiving the award for best documentary short film for 'Ava'. Emilio Fraile
Susi Sánchez (in the center), vice president of the Academy, has taken the stage with her colleagues from the Board of Directors, all wearing the pai pai with the motto It's over that she distributed at the CIMA gala, the organization that represents women at the cinema.
Jaime Villanueva
The American actress Sigourney Weaver, after receiving the international Goya from the director Juan Antonio Bayona.Jaime Villanueva
The American actress Sigourney Weaver, during her acceptance speech for the international Goya.Jaime Villanueva
Pedro Almodóvar has met with the actresses who made up the legendary cast of 'All About My Mother', which turns 25 years old.
Penélope Cruz, Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes and Antonia San Juan have remembered the film that won best international film in 2000 and won six goyas, including best film.
Paredes and San Juan have repeated part of their legendary dialogues to later give way to the international Goya award.Jaime Villanueva
Best new director: Estíbaliz Urresola Solaguren with the award for best new director for '20,000 species of bees'. ANA BELTRAN (REUTERS)
Director Mabel Lozano receives the Goya for best documentary short film for 'Ava'.Jaime Villanueva
Director Pablo Berger thanks the award for best animated film for 'Robot Dreams'.Jaime Villanueva
The actress and singer Ana Belén (in the center), during her performance at the Goya awards ceremony. Jaime Villanueva
The Argentine actor Matias Recalt poses with the award for best new actor for the film 'The Snow Society'. Emilio Fraile
Juan Antonio Bayona holds Michael Giacchino's Goya for best original music for 'The Snow Society'.Jaime Villanueva
The musical duo Estopa, in a moment of their performance at the gala.Chema Moya (EFE)
Matías Recalt, with the Goya for best new actor for 'The Snow Society'.Jaime Villanueva
Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi kiss before Ana Belén, in a moment of the gala.Jaime Villanueva
Pau Costa, Feliz Bergés and Laura Pedro pose with the award for best special effects for 'The Snow Society'. Emilio Fraile
Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver and Montse Ribé collect the Goya for best makeup and hairdressing for 'The Snow Society'.Jaime Villanueva
The composer Rigoberta Bandini raises the award for best original song for the film 'I'm loving you madly'. Emilio Fraile
The members of the 'Snow Society' team, Pau Costa, Feliz Bergés and Laura Pedro, after receiving the Goya for 'best special effects'.Jaime Villanueva
Julio Suárez holds the Goya for best costume design for 'The Snow Society'.Jaime Villanueva
José Coronado kisses the award for best supporting actor for the film 'Cerrar los ojos' after collecting the award.
Emilio Fraile
Rigoberta Bandini wins the award for best original song with 'I only want love'.Jaime Villanueva
Jose Coronado collects the Goya for best supporting actor for 'Cerrar los ojos'.Jaime Villanueva
“Women in cinema, like all of us, do not want attempts to live.
It is urgent that we all demand certainties of equality and that means condemning all abuse and sexual abuse.
And for thoroughly reviewing the structures that allow it," said Ana Belén at the beginning of the gala.Jaime Villanueva
David Bisbal singing 'My big night' by Raphael.
Jaime Villanueva
The presenters of the pizama gala, Javier Ambrossi, Ana Belén and Javier Calvo, at the beginning of the gala.Jaime Villanueva
The singer Amaia, during her performance.Jaime Villanueva
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez (second from the left), together with the President of the Government of Castilla y León, Alfonso Fernández Mañueco (second from the right);
the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun (on the right) and the director of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite (on the left), pose upon arrival at the ceremony.Mariscal (EFE)
Ana Belén, actress and host of the gala, shows a sticker against the arms trade and the ceasefire in Gaza during the red carpet.Emilio Fraile
The President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, accompanied by other authorities and members of the Film Academy, poses on the red carpet.Mariscal (EFE)
The voters of the Academy decided to support two visions of the human soul, of love and solidarity in key moments of existence.
The awards
came to
20,000 species of bees
at the end of the ceremony, starting with the Goya for best new director for Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, who, among touches of social denunciation in his speech, against abuse and violence, in cinema and in the world, thanked Sofía Otero's parents that they left it in her hands, and the child actress, winner of the Silver Bear for leading role, “her perseverance to be seen.”
Because Otero builds that girl, Aitor on paper, Coco for her mother, Lucía inside her, with a disarming truth.
The woman from Alava is the seventh woman to win consecutively in this category.
Also for her film were the recognitions for supporting actress (Ane Gabarain, who said “long live diversity”) and original script.
That script was born from the impression made on him by the suicide, in February 2018, of Ekai Lersundi at the age of 16.
The teenager had requested hormonal treatment that was never granted, and after fighting in vain for her gender identity to be recognized, he took his own life in her house.
But she left a letter, which the filmmaker has defined on several occasions as “hopeful, luminous,” with one goal: “That her drastic decision would make sense and produce a change in society,” and from there she put together the script for her drama. .
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In another from Bayonne,
A Monster Comes to See Me,
Sigourney Weaver, Goya International, an icon of cinema of the last 45 years, appeared.
As Bayona, the recipient of the award, said: “She made millions of girls dream of being warriors.
With you, a legend, Queen Sigourney Weaver.”
Excited, the New Yorker used a few words in Spanish at the beginning of her speech: “What a profound honor to be here with you.”
She spoke of the happiness of being part of an “industry that creates so many masterpieces.”
She remembered her childhood passion for maps and the monsters that waited on the edge of her to eat adventurers, and from there she moved on to her career, in which she has encountered monsters and given life to others. .
“I have felt affinity and inspiration in Spanish cinema, which has explored what it means to be human in this world,” she said.
“I am proud to be an actress, and to have worked in this country,” in reference to her six filmings in Spain, before finishing the work of her dubbing actress in these decades, María Luisa Solá.
And with a smiling face, she took the
bobblehead.
Sigourney Weaver receives the International Goya from Juan Antonio Bayona.Jaime Villanueva
For
Cerrar los ojos,
Víctor Erice's return to a feature film three decades after
El sol del membrillo,
was the trophy for best supporting actor for José Coronado.
There was no more for Erice, whom the voters no longer remembered.
In another nod to another great of Spanish cinema, Pedro Almodóvar, the cast of
All About My Mother
gathered 25 years later around the film's sofa to repeat the dialogue between Agrado, a character played by Antonia San Juan, and Huma Rojo (Marisa Walls).
“The number of cocks that I may have eaten in public places without the person concerned noticing,” San Juan recalled.
“It's been a long time since I've eaten a cock,” she replied on screen, and again in Valladolid Paredes.
Next to her, Cecilia Roth, Penélope Cruz (with whom he ended that moment) and Almodóvar.
The quintet returned at the end to give the main prize, when Almodóvar responded to the attack by the vice president of Castilla y León, Juan García-Gallardo, from Vox, who on Friday described a part of the sector as “gentlemen.”
“I'm going to tell you the obvious: the money that we filmmakers receive as an advance we more than return to the State.”
There were no surprises in the lead performance: David Verdaguer, for his Eugenio in
Saben That,
and Malena Alterio, for
Let Nobody Sleep,
went up for their awards.
Pablo Berger, Oscar candidate, won two awards with
Robot Dreams,
the one for adapted script (a surprise that broke pools), for his version of Sara Varon's comic, and the most predictable, the animated feature, in which he It was his debut in this technique.
The academics lost the opportunity a few months ago for him to have also competed for the Goya grande, for best film.
José Coronado with his Goya for supporting actor. Emilio Fraile
Juan Mariné, at 103 years old, could not attend the gala to collect his honorary award.
José Sacristán, who on the red carpet remembered that he was the first director of photography with whom he worked, glossed his figure.
Mariné not only started in cinema in his adolescence, but he filmed the funeral of the anarchist leader Buenaventura Durruti in November 1936, he was responsible for the photography of the first Spanish film in Technicolor, and 140 others, and he has been a restorer fundamental in the last decades of his career.
He was unable to travel to Valladolid, and the Academy distributed a photo of the filmmaker with his statuette a few days ago in Madrid, the same protocol followed with last year's Goya of honor, Carlos Saura, to whom they gave it before he died, the day before the 2023 gala. In passing, he also gave a veiled slap at the vice president of Castilla y León: “Responding to the comments of some undocumented immigrants, films are part of the cultural heritage of this country, whether or not they have had the favor of the public".
José Sacristán, presenting the Goya of Honor to Juan Mariné.ANA BELTRAN (REUTERS)
The other big absentee was the actress Carme Elías, protagonist of the long documentary
While you are,
by Claudia Pinto Emperador, the accompaniment of five years in the life of the interpreter, diagnosed with Alzheimer's, and who stayed at her home in Barcelona.
Alzheimer's reared its head again in Valladolid with the trophy for best Ibero-American film, for the Chilean
The Infinite Memory,
by Maite Alberdi, about the day-to-day life of the marriage between the cultural journalist Augusto Góngora, who suffers from Alzheimer's, and Paulina Urrutia, actress and former Minister of Culture of Chile.
The film premiered a year ago at Sundance, Góngora died last May, and his widow has continued to remember him with a smile, on a journey that will take them to the Oscars in a few weeks.
The director and screenwriter Estibaliz Urresola poses with the two awards won for '20,000 species of bees'. Emilio Fraile
If both awards rewarded both the cinematographic and the social, it was also considered
Although It's Night,
by Guillermo García López, which takes place in the Madrid neighborhood of Cañada Real, "which has been without light for four winters," said its director. , winner in short fiction.
Mabel Lozano, with her short documentary
De ella Ava,
dedicated like her previous works to the exploitation of women, took her second prize in that category.
“We say that slavery has disappeared from European civilization, but it is not true, slavery still exists.
It only applies to women and it is called prostitution,” said Lozano, recalling a phrase from Víctor Hugo.
Regarding the abuses in the audiovisual, which was noted at some moments, the actress and vice president of the Academy Susi Sánchez, who appeared on stage together with the women of the Board of Directors of the institution, and who stressed: “We reiterate our solidarity with the victims and we condemn abuses, wherever they occur and from whomever they come.”
The “it's over” was not resounding at the gala, although it was in the halls of the Pucelano fairgrounds.