'As Bestas', protagonist of the Goya with 9 statuettes

Spanish cinema puts the finishing touch on an excellent year in terms of number of productions and critical recognition and international awards with the presentation in Seville of the Goya Awards in which the film The Beasts, directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, has won nine statuettes including best film, best direction and best actor. The memory of maestro Carlos Saura, who died this Friday, was present throughout the entire ceremony.

The Film Academy punished the movie Carla Simon, winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, Alcarras, which has gone empty, despite starting among the favorites of all the pools.

Model 77, of Alberto Rodriguez, achieves in this 37th edition five technical awards: Manuela Ocon as best production direction; Pepe Domingo del Olmo, best art direction; Yolanda Piña and Félix Terrero, better makeup and hair; and Esther Ballesteros and Ana Rubio, better special effects.

Another of the movies that sounded like favorites, five little wolves, achieves the Goya for direction, leading actress (Laia Costa) and supporting actress (Susi Sánchez).

In interpretation, Laura Galán for Cerdita (Goya breakthrough actress), Luis Zahera for his supporting role in As Bestas and Denis Ménochet, as the protagonist in Sorogoyen's film, have received recognition from academics.

The ceremony, conducted by Clara Lago and Antonio de la Torre, began with the memory of Carlos Saura to the sound of Manolo Carrasco performing along with a good number of actors and actresses a particular version of the popular sing by Joan Manuel Serrat with verses by the Sevillian poet Antonio Machado.

The couple of Carlos Saura, Eulalia Ramón, and two of her children, Anna Saura and Antonio Saura, collected the Goya of Honor from the hands of the great Carmen Maura in the middle of one of the longest ovations remembered on the night of these awards.

Technical categories

In the technical categories, Esther Ballesteros achieved his first Goya while his partner, Ana Rubio, won his second bobblehead thanks to his special effects work in The Beasts.

The film has also received the award for best makeup awarded to Félix Terreros and Yolanda Piña with who Alberto Rodriguez He has already worked on his previous productions

Pepe Domínguez del Olmo, receives his second Goya for best art direction for his work in Model 77. It is his second Goya under the direction of director Alberto Rodríguez, after winning the award for The minimal island.

Aitor Berenguer, Fabiola Ordoyo and Yasmina Praderas have achieved recognition from the Academy for the sound of The Beasts. Berenguer already received an award for the horror film Veronica.

For the first time, five women competed for the Goya for best production direction. Finally, a professional inseparable from Alberto Rodríguez, Manuela Ocon, has won the award for Model 77. Her first Goya after having been nominated up to four times.

Alex de Pablo, Rodrigo Sorogoyen's main cinematographer, has won the Goya for The Beasts, a film in which De Pablo has managed to recreate a disturbing atmosphere that becomes suffocating in a rural setting. Sorogoyen himself has been in charge of collecting the Goya because Álex de Pablo has not been able to come to Seville.

Your companion, Alberto del Campo, has won the Goya for best editing of a rural thriller (As bestas) that, despite taking place in a quiet rural life, introduces sequences full of tension and drama.

Argentina, 1985, directed by Santiago Mitre, further paves its way to the Oscar by winning the Goya for best Ibero-American film. As best European film, the Norwegian one has won The worst person in the world, a romantic film in which Joachim Trier turns the concept of this genre on its head.

The short… is cinema

In a year in which several groups claimed that the short film is also cinema, it has won the Goya for best fiction short Emotional architecture 1959 directed by Leon Siminiani and produced by Ainhoa ​​Ramírez Lucendo and María Herrera.

In documentary, the Goya for the short film has gone to Maldita. A Love Song to Sarajevo, a work directed by Amaia Remírez García and Raúl de la Fuente, with production of
Ivan Zahinos.

Loop, directed by Pablo Polledri, has won the votes of the Academics with the award for best animated short with a production by Iván Miñambres.

New direction

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, con five little wolves, and in an intimate attempt to understand her own motherhood, and the relationships of children with parents, she has won the Goya for best new director.

As for animated feature films, this year five very original proposals competed. Finally, it was the tape Unicorn Wars, by Chelo Loureiro, of Iván Miñambres and Nicolás Schmerkin the winner of the Goya.

Labordeta, a man without more, directed by Evil Urresti He went on stage at the Andalucía Auditorium of the Seville Exhibition and Congress Palace to collect the Goya for best documentary feature accompanied by Paula Labordeta.

The director J. Bayona who went on stage to present the Goya for the best direction has reminded Albert Serra that with his movie Pacifiction, a Spanish-French co-production, has achieved nine nominations for the 2023 César Awards from the French Film Academy. Despite not being nominated for any Goya, it will compete in France for the César for best director, best film or best actor (Benoît Magimel). From the hands of Bayonne, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, which already won the Goya for best direction in 2019 for the kingdom, has once again convinced with the direction of her latest film that earned her a new Academy Award.

Finally, it should be noted that an undisputed reference in European cinema and protagonist of international productions for four decades, the French actress Juliette Binoche, has received the International Goya from the director Isabel Coixet.

Access to the Goyas 2023 Special in Panorama

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKjs6OGu68M&t=324s