Jaume Figueras, communication award from the Film Academy

The Alfonso Sánchez 2024 communication award, which Film Academy created in memory of the film critic and which recognizes the work of the media and its professionals for the dissemination and promotion of Spanish cinema, has been presented at a private event in Barcelona to journalist Jaume Figueras.

James Figueras He has worked in television, press and radio. He collaborated for more than 30 years in TV3, where he directed and presented the historic program Cinema 3 and co-presented for four years Warehouses in Canal+, a format from which he commented on several Oscar ceremonies. Likewise, for more than 50 years he was in charge of the film consultancy of the magazine Frames as Mr. Belvedere, his alter ego, and worked at Radio Barcelona. Gaudí Honorary Award 2023, National Cultural Journalism Award 2016 and Ángel Fernández Santos Award in 2006, the veteran journalist now adds the communication recognition of the Academy, which is celebrating its thirteenth edition recognizing formats and professionals as illustrious as Spanish version and Diego Galán (ex aequo), Antonio Gasset, Oti Rodríguez Marchante, Conxita Casanovas, Cartelera Turia, Yolanda Flores, Nuria Vidal, Carles Francino, Begoña Piña, Anton Merikaetxebarria, Chusa L. Monjas and Elisenda Nadal.

Fernando Méndez-Leite, president of the institution, has been in charge of giving the recognition to Figueras, highlighting that it has been “a teacher of us all” and the “unanimity” with which the Academy Board awarded him this annual award a few months ago “for his professional activity over sixty years and his closeness in the way of transmitting cinematographic culture, being an absolute reference for different generations of viewers and journalists.” Fig trees He was “happy” for the distinction at this event in Barcelona, where he was supported by the veteran journalist who directed Fotogramas magazine for more than 40 years, Elisenda Nadal; the producer Marta Esteban, and the production director and member of the Academy's Board of Directors, Josep Amorós. "I am especially excited about an award that bears the name of Alfonso Sánchez. I always thought he was the natural and colloquial critic, the person who spoke to you about cinema as he would have done about his family," declared the Catalan film chronicler after taking the statuette from Méndez-Leite.