'Second Prize', Goya 2025 for Best Sound

The effort of Diana Sagrista, Eva Valiño, Alejandro Castillo and Antonin Dalmasso to combine dialogue and live music to drive narration and emotion in 'Second Prize' has been recognized with a Goya in the Best Sound category.

With a plot focused on Granada, Second Prize rescues and transforms the history of Los Planetas to convey a unique emotional and cultural moment in the history of our country. The origin of one of the most influential bands of alternative music in Spain has served as a pretext to Isaki Lacuesta and Paul Rodríguez to conduct a deeply aesthetic and, at times, lyrical story, which required a sound base that would give substance to the legend of the combo led by the always complex Jota.

Diana Sagrista, Eva Valiño, Alejandro Castillo and Antonin Dalmasso have taken charge of a complex sound built around two great challenges. On the one hand, combining the live music of the film, a narrative in itself, with the dialogues. On the other hand, ensuring that the “musician-actors” were able to replicate the sound of Los Planetas, key for a musical film in which, for the winners, “they do not dance with choreography, but through rock.”

The sound of Second Prize, a certainly complex production that has required multiple trials and errors to achieve its final assembly, has been worked with the suite Avid Pro Tools. It has been especially relevant for the Best Editing award for Javi Frutos, and has helped Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez win the Goya for Best Direction.