The night that the Community of Madrid responded to the Goyas: this is how the gala was experienced on the networks

The Goyas start at approximately ten o'clock at night according to the RTVE grid, but on Twitter their duration expands in time from when someone criticizes the first outfit on the red carpet until someone launches the last judgment about what happened tonight , something that would normally happen this Monday or this Tuesday.

But, on this occasion, given the course that the night took and how an institutional account responded to Eulalia Ramón's speech during the gala itself, her echo could reach the day of the regional elections.

But, let us start at the beginning.

A good example of how Twitter anticipates the awards themselves is the case of Isabel Coixet.

The director, nominated for best documentary film for

and with seven others already to her credit, came with a black jacket from a second-hand store that has on its back an illustration of Mahsa Amini, the Iranian woman who died shortly after being arrested for not wearing the hijab “correctly” according to the authorities in her country.

His gesture was widely applauded on social networks already during the afternoon, after the first appearances on the blue carpet, but there were some who pointed out that there is, in his intention to go to an awards gala with a 15-euro garment from a second-hand store, a certain contempt for the Spanish fashion industry in a gala that should mean a twinning between the two.

That's why Twitter was created: so that someone gets ahead of the paradigm with a new one, so that someone proves to be an even better person than the one in the previous tweet.

The case of the comments received by Eduardo Casanova, dressed as Arturo Obegero in a suit that we could describe as

, is sadly not new.

Once again, it has become the target of some Internet users who confuse cultural criticism with harassment and homophobia.

If we do not expand on this, it is because we already did it last year.

With this background, the Goya 2023 did not disappoint: before the gala began, criticism was already flying over.

But there was also some anxiety.

The controversy over the cases of harassment at the Feroz awards caused the gala's first viral tweet to become popular from twenty minutes to eight in the afternoon: the photo of one of the posters that, in the space where the Goyas are held, reminded attendees of basic rules of behavior (the Film Academy launched an anti-harassment protocol this year).

#Goya2023

The level of the Goya troops that have to warn them that raping is ugly.

pic.twitter.com/lfr5bDrTjG

— Doc Hollyday (@DocHollyday3) February 11, 2023

The gala began by calming everyone's spirits with the only thing that can unite all Spain: Carmen Maura.

His emotional speech when presenting the Goya de Honor to the recently deceased Carlos Saura preceded the words of his wife and two of his children.

Antonio Saura vindicated the women who inspired his father in a gesture that was greatly applauded, and his wife, the actress Eulalia Ramón, thanked the healthcare for the care that Saura received in his last months and vindicated public healthcare, which would inevitably mark the rest of the gala, inside and outside the walls of the Palace of Exhibitions and Congresses of Seville.

How moving were the speeches by Carlos Saura Jr. and Eulalia Ramón.

The first, claiming the women of his father's life;

and the second, public health that took care of him until the end.

#Goyas2023 pic.twitter.com/JYuDKN5mAK

— Pepa González Oliva (@PepaGOliva) February 11, 2023

Me after the tribute to Saura and the cry that I have I do not recover all night #Goyas2023 Those minutes of ovation 🥹 the memory of the women who accompanied him and the demand for public health.

I identify with Carmen Machi and her tears.

— Beatriz Martínez Góm (@BeatrizMartnezG) February 11, 2023

Before the first hour was over, there was room for another great exciting moment at the gala, which seemed to agree to strike a chord with its viewers: the Goya for best newcomer to Telmo Irureta (for The Rite of Spring)

afflicted with cerebral palsy since he was two years old, who called for "a more inclusive cinema" in his speech and did so, moreover, with one of those phrases ready to become a rallying cry, be it a tweet or a T-shirt: "We too we exist and we also fuck”.

“Because we also exist and we also fuck”… Bravo, Telmo Irureta!!!!

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 #Goya2023

— FernandoFromChile (@fzavala2003) February 11, 2023

(A brief essential paragraph in an article that reviews the viral affairs of the gala: at 10:56 p.m., in the form of a gag by Arturo Valls dubbed by José Coronado, the necessary reference to Shakira's song about Piqué arrives, or as some people know her,

).

Shakira had to go out, of course, but I didn't expect them to make Coronado sing it 🤣🤣 #Goyas2023

— Pedro Alcazar (@PedroAlcazar21) February 11, 2023

Starting at eleven o'clock, the networks confirm something that viewers suspected from the beginning of the gala: that Antonio de la Torre is the unexpected solvent presenter that the Goyas needed.

On Twitter there is almost unanimity in applause for the interpreter in his work as host of the night.

Well, the 📺📺📺 gala is going well

All with sense and no nonsense

And how I like Antonio de la Torre#Goya2023

— Mariola Cubells Paví (@mariolacubells) February 11, 2023

The great Antonio de la Torre is embroidering the conduction of the #Goya2023 gala.

How much message, how much love, how much professionalism.#Goyas2023 pic.twitter.com/rgXf0QHqdM

— Fernando Olmeda (@FernandoOlmeda) February 11, 2023

And very shortly afterwards, the conversation on Twitter is a

: the controversial official response from the Community of Madrid brings us back to Eulalia Ramón's speech that opened the gala: "She doesn't have to know, no patient has to know, that this hospital is public-private management, which also works”.

A response that some describe as "embarrassing."

The widow of Carlos Saura has thanked the work of the Villalba hospital.

And she has asked that Public Health be taken care of.

She does not have to know, no patient has to know, that this hospital is public-private management, that it also works pic.twitter.com/9hVo4k4ODO

— Community of Madrid (@ComunidadMadrid) February 11, 2023

It is an embarrassment to use the institutional accounts of the CAM.

For whatever reason, they have cut the video just before this sentence: "Public healthcare deserves to be taken care of as public personnel take care of us" #Goyas2023

This Sunday, take to the streets to take care of it https://t.co/ 4YvgvIX687

— David Noriega (@David_Noriega) February 11, 2023

The response from the Community of Madrid account, and another from Isabel Díaz Ayuso herself, become involuntary protagonists of a night in which public health is the great claim: it is part of the speeches of award-winners, presenters and also the monologues of the presenters themselves.

From the networks, some ask that the gala itself respond to that tweet, which would mean a triple jump in this exchange of messages.

It does not happen.

But there are other claims covered with applause for our industry.

Javier Calvo gives (together with Javier Ambrossi and Abril Zamora) a brief and acclaimed speech on how Spanish cinema has embraced, for five decades, affective and sexual diversity in its stories.

And there are other more silent speeches in defense of diversity, like the one contained in Rodrigo Sorogoyen's nails, with the colors of the trans flag.

Blue, pink and white.

I love Rodrigo Sorogoyen's painted nails and I love the message they convey #Goyas2023 pic.twitter.com/E9VXXWXpGk

— Tom C. Avendaño (@TCAvendano) February 11, 2023

Sorogoyen has her nails painted with the trans flag because it's big pic.twitter.com/C5XdqelQoR

— Borja Rodrigo (@Borjarodrigo) February 11, 2023

The speech against

by Laura Galán, awarded as best new actress for her role in

, was celebrated on networks as it deserved.

And he also deserved the first incursion of a Belén Esteban meme at the gala, which appeared almost at midnight.

Pretty late by Twitter standards and Esteban's omnipresence.

Yasssss Laura Galán #Goyas2023 🥳 pic.twitter.com/eFmpfM3H4N

— Javier Parra (@xavipargon) February 11, 2023

And some speeches take place

-screen (literally

: it was the voice of Carlos del Amor when the Goya for the best Ibero-American film was announced for

), but they resonate on the networks.

Goya for the Goya's commentator who has said that “what envy Argentina 1985 and see a dictator tried and not dying in a bed?

I don't know who you are but my respects.

#Goyas2023 "let's go with that".

— Gara Santana🔻 (@garaS87) February 11, 2023

This Goya gala has not skimped on raising the most normatively beautiful faces of Spanish cinema, youth idols ranging from Pol Monen to Manu Ríos, from María Pedraza to Milena Smit, Martiño Rivas to Carlos Cuevas.

And the viewers appreciated it.

To the person who decided that Carlos Cuevas and Martiño Rivas would go out to give an award together: THANK YOU #Goya2023 pic.twitter.com/2WzaJOJclv

– Pedro J. Garcia (@fuertecito) February 11, 2023

Other speeches seem to exist within chronicles like this, or even anticipate them: Clara Lago, the other presenter of the gala, assured at one point in her monologue, already around one in the morning: “I have removed Twitter until 2058 ″.

For what it could happen.

“I have removed Twitter until 2058”.

Fantastic speech by Clara Lago against bullying and in favor of mental health, which has inevitably led to a demand for public health.

— Juan Roures (@JuanRoures) February 11, 2023

Three and a half hours later and with

as the winner of the night, the general feeling was that the gala had become... long.

Even from one of the winners.

Denis Ménochet, best actor for

, mused, as he took out his mobile phone to read his speech in Spanish: "It's one in the morning."

That phrase also represents the public.

And how.

It's 1 in the morning, he says, the gala must be getting long 🤣 #Goya2023

— Marta (@Marta_Gllego) February 12, 2023

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