Spanish cinema presented its
Goya awards
this Saturday in Valladolid at a grand gala, and
several Argentines appeared among the winners
.
On the one hand, in the race to win the Ibero-American film of the year, Puan, by María Alché and Benjamín Naishat, was nominated, but the Chilean film
La memoria infinite
was the winner .
The successful film
The Snow Society
, by Juan Antonio Bayona, swept the awards and surpassed its main rival,
20,000 Species of Bees
, by Estíbaliz Urresola, which led the nominations with 15 nominations.
The American actress Sigourney Weaver upon her arrival at the award ceremony of the 38th edition of the Goya Awards, held this Saturday in Valladolid.
Photo: EFE
The gala was attended by the great American actress
Sigourney Weaver
, who traveled especially to accept an honorary Goya in person.
She gave a long and emotional speech where she even thanked the Spanish woman who has been dubbing her voice for 30 years.
The director Pedro Almodóvar, the actress Penélope Cruz and the actors Gael García Bernal and José Sacristán were some of those in charge of presenting the awards.
At the beginning of the ceremony Amaia and David Bisbal sang, surprising with a version of
Mi gran noche
by Raphael.
Later, Niña Pastori, India Martínez and María José Llergo performed María Jiménez's anthem,
It's over.
More awards for Argentines
Matías Recalt
won the Goya for
best new actor
for his role in
The Snow Society
.
The Argentine actor Matias Recalt after receiving the Goya for best new actor for his work in "The Snow Society."
Photo: EFE
The Argentine actor plays Roberto Canessa, one of the survivors of the 1972 plane crash in the Andes that Bayona narrates in the film and one of those who undertook the 10-day journey through the mountain range to try to find help.
Another Argentinian,
Julio Suárez
was awarded the Goya for
best costume design
for his work on
The Snow Society
.
Julio Suárez receives the award for best costume design for the film "The Snow Society."
Photo: EFE
He carried out this work between Buenos Aires and Barcelona;
he used over 4,000 items of clothing and even hand knitted some of the sweaters.
Due to the environmental conditions and the fact of using doubles for the actors, "some of the costumes were duplicated up to seven times", and he even had to enlarge the clothes so that the performers, with the passage of time, seemed "skinnyr", he told...
The footwear brought him many problems, as he explained.
"The cold deteriorated the leather. They wore moccasins and lace-up shoes, the soles were slippery and after three days they were destroyed, the snow took them off."
The great duel
20,000 species of bees
came to the Goya with the endorsement of the Berlin Festival's Silver Bear for best performance for the child-actress Sofía Otero.
However, it lost to the storm of awards won by
The Snow Society
, which aspired to a successful run at the Goya before reaching the Oscars, where it is a candidate for best foreign film and best makeup and hair.
"The Snow Society" swept the Goya Awards.
Photo: Netflix
The film tells the true story of some young Uruguayan rugby players whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972 and who survived, after being presumed dead, more than two months of hunger and cold in the mountain range.
In the first two hours of the event, the Goya was awarded for best editing, cinematography, art direction, production direction, original music, sound, costumes, special effects, breakthrough actor, makeup and hairdressing.
Controversy
One fact about this award is that it was the first time in the history of the Goya, which started in 1987, where there were
more women nominated than men
, in a ratio of 60 to 40.
Furthermore, this edition had as its implicit protagonist the
sexual abuses and recent complaints against two Spanish directors
, Carlos Vermut and Armando Ravelo.
"This is a very sensitive sector with what happens in society, we are nourished by what happens in society," and the issue of sexual abuse "will be present" at the gala, the presenter anticipated on the red carpet. of the ceremony,
Ana Belén
.
Sigourney Weaver also spoke about the issue in her conference on Friday, where she said that women who report these situations make "working in this business safer for everyone."
The complaints led the ministry to announce the creation of a care unit for victims of these crimes and the Ministry of Equality to prepare a report that serves as an x-ray of sexual violence in cinema.
While the stars of the gala paraded along the red carpet, hundreds of farmers demonstrated in front of the Valladolid Fair, where the awards are presented, taking advantage of the media attention.