Luis Tosar and Rigoberta Bandini will be in charge of conducting the 2026 Goya Awards gala

The Film Academy announces that the actor Luis Tosar and the singer Rigoberta Bandini will be the presenters of the 40th Goya Awards 2026 gala, which will be held on February 28 in Barcelona.

After passing through Seville, Málaga, Valencia, Valladolid and Granada, the Goya Awards return to Barcelona, ​​a city that already hosted the ceremony in 2000, thus becoming the first time that the awards were presented outside of Madrid. On this occasion, the gala promises to combine spectacle, music and tribute to cinema with the charisma of Luis Tosar and Rigoberta Bandini as hosts.

Aware that the gala is a show and a primetime television show, the presenters opted for a format “that makes you laugh and empathize and that can connect with those on the other side of the screen,” in the words of the Catalan, who believes that the viewer “appreciates naturalness and honesty.” In this sense, they ruled out "embodying things that we are not, we are not comedians" and the artist pointed out that she wants to "play in favor of my character and be aware of what we can offer."

The president of the Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, highlighted during the announcement that Tosar “is one of the best actors in the country,” and introduced Bandini performing a few lines from his song Brindis.

Tosar has announced that the next edition of the film awards “will represent all the cultural diversities of Spain.” "There will be a lot of Catalan, a lot of Galician, a lot of Basque and a lot of Spanish. There will be a lot of everything," highlighted the actor, winner of three Goya Awards for Cell 211, I give you my eyes y Mondays in the sun.

For her part, the singer-songwriter Rigoberta Bandini, winner of the Goya 2024 for Best Original Song for I just want love (from the movie I'm loving you madly) has been enthusiastic about presenting the awards in her hometown. "I am very excited and feel a great responsibility. I want it to be an incredible gala with a lot of positive energy," she acknowledged.