These are the nominees for the 27th edition of the Forqué Awards

This Thursday, November 11, the public reading of the finalists for the 27th edition of the José María Forqué Awards, which like every year is awarded by the Audiovisual Producers' Rights Management Entity (EGEDA) and opens the film awards season in Spain.

The president of EGEDA, Enrique Cerezo, next to Vicky Luengo, Alvaro Mel, Santiago Segura y Grace Querejeta, who have read the nominees.

The presentation of these awards will take place at the IFEMA Municipal Palace of Madrid next December 11, a month earlier than is traditional, with a gala that will be presented by Marta Hazas and Elena S. Sánchez.

This 27th edition of the awards will look towards the 1980s, a prominent decade in the field of artistic, musical, audiovisual and cultural creation. Cerezo commented that "we celebrate the eighties at the Forqué Awards as a tribute, memory and remembrance of what they were for Spain and for Madrid. An explosion of freedom."

Maixabel, the film with the most votes in the cinematographic section with five nominations, will compete with The good boss, selected by the Film Academy to compete for the nomination for the 94th Oscar Awards, Parallel mothers y Mediterranean for the José María Forqué Award for Best Fiction or Animation Feature Film. In the television section, where Hierro y Fortune are up for three awards, the works competing for the Best Fiction Series award are those already mentioned Hierro y Fortune, e Stories to keep you from sleeping y Lost Faggot.

Nominees 27th edition of the José María Forqué Award

Best Fiction and Animation Feature Film

The good boss
Parallel mothers
Maixabel
Mediterranean

Best Fiction Series

Hierro
Stories to keep you from sleeping
Fortune
lost faggot

Best Documentary Feature Film

100 days with Tata
Buñuel, and a surrealist treat
Héroes, silencio y rock & rock
Who prevents it

Best Cinematographic Short Film

The invisible monster
Mindanao
The Monkey

Best Female Performance

Blanca Portillo (Maixabel)
Martha Nieto (Three)
Penelope Cruz (Parallel mothers)
Petra Martínez (Life was that)

Best Male Performance

Eduard Fernandez (Mediterranean)
Javier Bardem (The good boss)
Luis Tosar (Maixabel)
Urko Olazábal (Maixabel)

Best Male Performance in a Fiction Series

Álvaro Mel (Fortune)
Darío Grandinetti (Hierro)
Javier Cámara (Come on John)
Javier Gutierrez (Kings of the night)

Best Female Performance in a Fiction Series

Dusty Anne (Fortune)
Candela Pena (Hierro)
Maribel Verdú (Ana Tramel. The game)
Nadia de Santiago (The time I give you)

Best Latin American Feature Film of the Year

98 seconds without shadow
Dog Washer
The wolves
night of fire

José María Forqué 2021 Award for Cinema and Education in Values

100 days with Tata
Parallel mothers
Maixabel
Mediterranean