'As Bestas' and 'Apagón', winners of the 28 Forqué Awards

The 28 Forqué Awards leave a record led by As Bestas as Best Feature Film and Blackout as best fiction series, thus beginning a race towards a Goya in which the award for Best Film will be more disputed than ever.

Beyond the recognition of Best Fiction and/or Animation Feature Film and Best Fiction Series, both productions have won a second prize: the Best Male Performance for Denis Ménochet for his role in As bestas and that of Best Male Performance in a Series for Jesús Carroza by Blackout.

In the acting section, Laia Costa also took the stage to collect the award for the Best Actress for his work in Five Little Wolves. In addition, the film has won the Award for Cinema and Education in Values, an award that the director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa he especially thanked: "It is very exciting to receive this award from those who bring the stories forward."

Monica Lopez closed the list of awards for acting by taking the Forqué for the Best Actress, which Jorge Coira collected on his behalf, with his first nomination for his role in the series Rapa.

The winners of the Forqué was completed with the Best Documentary Feature Film, who has taken it away Labordeta, a man without more Paula Labordeta and Gaizka Urresti; Best Latin American Feature Film, a category in which the victory of Argentina, 1985 of Santiago Mitre, and the Best Short Film: Ropes, by Estíbaliz Urresola.

Tribute to Verónica Forqué and gold medal to Jose Luis Bermúdez de Castro

The presence of Verónica Forqué has been a constant during the awards gala. Forqué Awards, with intense reminders of The Consortium, who had a few words for the actress, "a magnificent person", or Ana Torroja, who highlighted this tribute to "a free soul who wanted to fly before his time", to which were added the emotional words of Antonio Resines and Silvia Abascal, close friends of the interpreter. For his part, the producer Eduardo Campoy He recalled José María Forqué, whose birth will be one hundred years old in 2023.

Enrique Cerezo was in charge of delivering the Gold Medal, an honorary award that EGEDA awarded annually to recognize the work of industry professionals, to José Luis Bermúdez de Castro. Cerezo praised the career and work of the producer, who has worked with Sergio Leone, Mariano Ozores, Fernando Fernán Gómez, Javier Aguirre, Eloy de la Iglesia and many others, in more than a hundred films and who have had in their productions actors such as Concha Velasco, Carmen Maura, Lina Morgan, Analia Gade, Angela Molina, Nadiuska, Pajares, Esteso, Martes y 13, José Sacristán, Arturo Fernández or Antonio Ozores. For his part, the honoree expressed his gratitude when he received the Gold Medal and the importance that "the infinity of awards" he has experienced with the films in which he has participated has had for him: "The prize has been to see the audience laugh or cry who have paid their ticket and decide to demonstrate".