There was good news in the nominations for the Goya Awards, presented by the Spanish Film Academy. Those who obtained the nominations are the films Puán and Cerrar los ojos, and the actors Matías Recalt and Alberto Ammann. The Goya Awards will be presented on February 10 in Valladolid.
The tragicomedy Madam, by María Alché and Benjamín Naishtat, is nominated in the category of best Ibero-American film, in which it will compete with the Portuguese living soulthe Chilean The infinite memorythe Puerto Rican Fishbowl and the Venezuelan Simon.
The film by Alché and Naishtat, which tells the story of a Philosophy professor at the University of Buenos Aires, has already received two awards in the last edition of the San Sebastián Festival, one in recognition of its script and the other for its leading actor. , Marcelo Subiotto.
Argentina is the country that has won the Goya for best Ibero-American film on the most occasions, with 19 victories, the last one this year, with Argentina, 1985.
For its part, the Spanish-Argentine co-production Close the eyesthe first film by veteran Spanish filmmaker Víctor Erice in three decades, is one of the most nominated films for the next gala.
It will compete in eleven categories, including best film, best director, best lead actor, best supporting actor, best supporting actress and best original screenplay.
The young Argentine performer Matías Recalt is nominated in the category of best new actor for playing Roberto Canessa, one of the 16 survivors of the tragedy in the Andes, in the latest film by Spanish director Juan Antonio Bayona, The Snow Society.
And, born in Córdoba and settled in Spain, Alberto Ammann is a candidate for best leading actor for Upon entryand could win his second award, since for Cell 211 (2009) won the award for best new actor.
Recalt could join the list of Argentine actors and actresses awarded by the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, which already includes Ricardo Darín, Leonardo Sbaraglia and Cecilia Roth.
The nominations
20,000 species of beesthe film by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren that tells the story of Lucía, an eight-year-old girl searching for her gender identity, made history by becoming the most nominated debut feature at the Goya Awards for Spanish cinema, with 15 nominations that put it as a favorite for the 38th edition of the Spanish Film Academy awards.
“That the community itself felt represented with the film was my greatest wish, my concern, my challenge,” said Urresola, who thanked “the fathers and mothers who generously shared their lives and intimacy with me.”
“From northern Europe to the United States or Latin America there are many people who tell me something similar… that their inner child has been healed, or has been cared for or cared for thanks to the film, and for me there can’t really be a most important recognition,” he added.
Urresola’s film, which has garnered recognition around the world, surpassed The Snow Society, the latest work by Juan Antonio Bayona that was chosen by the Academy to compete for the nomination for best international film at the Oscars. This film, which tells the journey of the survivors of a plane crash on a glacier in the Andes in 1972, which is about to be released in theaters, will aspire to 13 awards at the awards ceremony in February.
After reading the nominations, Bayona, who is immersed in promoting his film ahead of the Oscars, said by videoconference from San Francisco that he felt “excited by the fact that practically the entire team is nominated” after a job of many years”.
“It really makes me very happy to be back home and feel so loved,” he added.
Close the eyesthe film about the disappearance of a well-known actor during a shoot that marked Víctor Erice’s return to the cinema after three decades of absence, and They know that onethe biographical film of the popular Catalan comedian Eugenio directed by David Trueba, received 11 nominations. One LoveIsabel Coixet’s adaptation of Sara Mesa’s novel of the same name about the changes in the life of a young woman who moves to the countryside, is up for seven statuettes.
The five films will go head to head for the award for best film of the year.
Bayona, Erice, Trueba, Coixet and Elena Martín Gimeno, who led the baton of Creaturewill compete for the best director award, while Urresola aspires for best new director together with Álvaro Gago (Matter), Itaso Arana (The girls are fine) and Alejandro Marín (Tand I am loving madly).
The category is completed by the duo formed by Venezuelan filmmakers Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez, who are at the helm of Upon entryabout immigration that “comes from a very personal space of traumatic stories that we have personally experienced,” said Vásquez.
Patricia López Arnaiz, who plays Ane, the mother of little Lucía in 20,000 species of beeswill compete for the Goya for best actress with the last winner in the category, Laia Costa (One Love), Malena Alterio (let no one sleep) and María Vázquez (Matter), who repeat as nominees, and Carolina Yuste (They know that one), who also has one on his record, complete the shortlist.
In the male category, Manolo Solo received his fourth nomination for playing Miguel Garay, the filmmaker who stars in Close the eyes. To win what would be his second “cabezón” he will have to overcome Enric Auquer (The teacher who promised the sea), David Verdaguer (They know The One), Hovik Keuchkerian (One Love) and Alberto Ammann (Upon entry), which could also win its second award.
Ane Gabarain and Itziar Lazcano are nominated for best supporting actress for 20,000 species of beesalong with Clara Segura (Creature), Luisa Gavasa (The teacher who promised the sea) and Ana Torrent, who obtained her second nomination for her work in the film Erice, with whom she made her film debut at just seven years old.
Marcelo Rubio, of 20,000 species of beesis nominated for best supporting actor alongside Juan Carlos Vellido (Under therapy), to veteran José Coronado (Close the eyes), Álex Brendemühl (Creature) and Hugo Silva (One Love).
The only award that already has an owner is the Goya of Honor, which will recognize Juan Mariné’s vast career as a director of photography, film restorer and researcher.
The award for best original screenplay will be between Urresola (20,000 species of bees), Erice and Michel Gaztambide (Close your eyes), Alejandro Marín and Carmen Garrido (I am loving you madly), Félix Viscarret (A life not so simple) and Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez (Upon entry).
In the adapted screenplay category, Albert Val (The teacher who promised the sea), the team formed by Bernat Vilaplana, Bayona, Jaime Marques-Olarreaga and Nicolás Casariego (The Snow Society), Pablo Berger (Robot dreams), Trueba and Albert Espinosa (They know that one) and Coixet and Laura Ferrero (One Love).
Caleta Palace, With you, with you and without me, This excessive ambition -which includes the last tour of the singer C. Tangana-, Iberia, infinite nature y As long as it’s you, the here and now by Carme Elias will compete for the Goya for best documentary film while They shot the pianist (They shot the piano player), The sultana’s dream, Hannah and the monsters, Mummies y Robot dreams The best animated film will be competed for.