The Goya Awards celebrate 'Los domingos' and bless 'Sirat'

BarcelonaAfter theex aequo From the previous edition, the Goya Awards once again have a clear winner: Sundays It triumphed at the 40th Goya Awards, held this Saturday at the Barcelona International Convention Centre. The film, directed by Basque filmmaker Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, took home five awards – Best Film, Best Director, Best Actress (Patricia López Arnaiz), Best Supporting Actress, and Best Original Screenplay – enough to make it the big winner of the night. But the Catalan production also received recognition in the awards. SiradoThe film by Galician director Oliver Laxe, which swept six technical categories: cinematography, art direction, production design, editing, music, and, of course, sound for Oscar nominees Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas, and Yasmina Praderas.

The success of both films at the Goya Awards is consistent with the scale they have reached in recent months as minor social phenomena. More than a reaffirmation of the Golden Shell of Sundays or of the two Oscar nominations of Sirado, Spanish academics have recognized the ability of these two independent films to transcend their natural sphere and generate conversation and debate in society. If cinema aspires to remain a relevant art form, it needs films and directors that shake up the viewer in order to regain the ground lost to television series and social media. In this sense, the Goya Awards point out Sundays and Sirado as works that pave the way forward.

The order of the awards made the night begin with a smile. Sundays with the Goya for best supporting actress for Nagore Aranburu, but Sirado It quickly regained ground with awards for original music and editing. The two-voice monologue was interrupted by a truly historic event: Albert Serra's first Goya win, for best documentary for Afternoons of solitudeThe most internationally renowned and prestigious Catalan filmmaker of his generation had to wait until his seventh film for the Spanish Film Academy to recognize his talent, lagging behind the French Academy, which awarded him an award three years ago. PacificationThe man from Banyoles expressed his gratitude for the "virtually unbelievable" access granted to him by the bullfighters featured in the documentary, allowing him to "portray a controversial and difficult subject." "In that clash between politics and intimacy, the film finds its voice," he stated.

'Sorda' hat trick

Another Catalan award winner was Álvaro Cervantes, who after winning the award for best actor at the Malaga Film Festival (ex aequo with Mario Casas) and for best supporting actor at the Gaudí Awards, yesterday he completed a perfect awards season with the Goya for best supporting actor for DeafCervantes acknowledged that while filming the movie he had learned a new word:Ableism It perfectly defines the world we live in, which excludes people with disabilities. Empathy cannot be based on good intentions, but on examining our privileges.”

It was the first of the three awards that Eva Libertad's film won, which also took home the Goya for Best New Director. “The Goya is hers,” said the actor, completing the film's impressive list of accolades. Deaf with the Goya for Best New Actress. Garlo delivered her acceptance speech while also using sign language, an effort the director didn't always help her follow: "This award is for deaf women, those who have been mothers and those who haven't. Because to obstetric violence we must add the violence of non-communication and invisibility. Without communication, we are mere furniture. No one is mute. We have our own voice, but it isn't always spoken."

The celebration wasn't complete at Can Cervantes: Álvaro's sister, Ángela Cervantes, couldn't repeat the sibling double win of the Gaudí Awards and lost the Goya for Best Actress – she was nominated for The fury– in favor of Patricia López Arnaiz, the protagonist of SundaysNor was it Carla Simón's night, who with Pilgrimage He left again without any Goya awards, as had already happened with AlcarràsThis time it didn't take anyone by surprise, but it is still an indicator of the distancing of Spanish academics from the most important director of the last decade, whom they have chosen twice to represent Spain at the Oscars.

Maspalomas, the most nominated film of this edition after Sirado and SundaysThe film at least snagged one major award, Best Actor for José Ramón Soroiz, for his portrayal of a gay man in his seventies who is forced back into the closet after a stroke lands him in a nursing home. Soroiz is a much-loved actor in the Basque Country. "You have made me very happy, and I hope all the Vicentes [his character] in the world will be too," he said in a speech delivered mostly in Basque, a practice not adopted by any of the Catalan award winners. On a night with many Catalan winners, the award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Joaquín Oristrell, co-writer of Manuel Gómez Pereira's comedy, was particularly significant. DinnerOristrell, one of the best comedy screenwriters in Catalan and Spanish cinema, only had one Goya Award, the one from 1995 for All men are equal"Another comedy by Gómez Pereira. "Thank you for considering a comedy worthy of an award," said Oristrell.dinner We felt it was important to remember that Franco was a dictator. And that dictators subject their people to their whims: organizing a dinner party, banning a language, denying gender violence, invading countries, or staging a resort in Gaza."

Politics at the gala

The second edition of the Goya Awards, held in Barcelona, ​​was marked by politics, as could be expected given the red carpet lined with pine trees in support of Palestine. And there was no shortage of politicized and combative speeches. For example, that of the Argentinian Dolores Fonzi, director of Nativity sceneThe winner of the Goya for Best Ibero-American Film said: "Those of you who still can, don't fall into the trap: the far right is coming to destroy everything. I come from the future, from a country where the president put everything up for sale, even water." Also powerful was the call for "real parity behind the cameras" by Laia Casanovas and Yasmina Praderas, who reminded everyone that they are not only the first all-female sound team nominated for an Oscar, but also the first to win a Goya. Alauda Ruiz de Azúa also brought up the fact that only three female directors had won before she won the award for best director.

And of course, Jordi Jiménez's "Long live public, free, and quality education!" was political. Jiménez is the director of the Catalan animated short film. Gilbert...recalling that three members of the team met in a course for unemployed people. Or the Honorary Goya, the writer and filmmaker Gonzalo Suárez, shaken to have seen how "oneThe character plays golf with our world, to throw it into a very black hole." And the "Long live free Palestine" exclaimed by several award winners and presenters, such as Alba Flores, in one of the most beautiful speeches of the night when accepting the Goya for best original song for Flowers for AntonioFrom the documentary of the same name. Flores, who shared the award with Sílvia Pérez Cruz, took the opportunity to mention that she was in the city of her grandfather, Antonio González. the Pescaílla and his grandmother Violeta.

The Goya Awards coinciding with the US and Israeli attack on Iran gave special significance to the presence at the gala of Jafar Panahi, an Iranian filmmaker persecuted by the Islamic regime and a symbol of the moral resistance of the Iranian people. Finally, A simple accident, his latest film and Palme d'Or winner at Cannes, lost to the Norwegian Sentimental valueThe other international presence did garner the expected attention: Susan Sarandon received her Goya Award from the Academy's director, Fernando Méndez-Leite. As she had done at the press conference the day before, the actress from Thelma and Louise She showered praise on President Pedro Sánchez, thanking him for "his honesty and moral clarity amidst the chaos." Quoting historian and philosopher Howard Zinn, Sarandon also championed "having hope in difficult times." "The history of humanity is not only a history of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, and kindness," she added. "And what we place at the center of that history will shape our lives."

A quick gala, finally.

The Goya Awards took just over three hours to announce the last award of the night, a record compared to the interminable galas of recent years. In return, the pace of the awards presentations was fast, almost frenetic at times, and the speeches, by necessity, were brief. Conversely, the nostalgic montages of past editions were long, and perhaps one was enough. The result was that there wasn't much room for the presenting duo of Rigoberta Bandini and Luis Tosar to shine. Their chemistry never quite clicked, and their script wasn't particularly inspired, especially when they tried to be funny. Bandini seemed more comfortable on her own, especially when she sang Tomeu Penya's version. With all my heartOf the other performances, the version of You looked by Lole and Manuel, directed by Ángeles Toledano and the Orfeó Català Children's Choir, the one by If you leave by Extremoduro, performed by Belen Aguilera, and, in part, the rumba party in tribute to Gato Pérez in Barcelona, ​​although it became clear that, without autotuneBad Gyal is not "the pussy "who commands." In short, it was a multilingual and combative gala, full of slogans and proclamations, but despite its brisk pace, it dragged on once again. Perhaps simply handing out over twenty awards isn't the best recipe for creating a good television show. ~BK_SLT_L6~ Palma

Best Picture

• Sundays

Better direction

• Alauda Ruiz de Azúa by Sundays

Best new director

• Eva Libertad by Deaf

Best Original Screenplay

• Alauda Ruiz de Azúa by Sundays

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Joaquín Oristrell, Manuel Gómez Pereira and Yolanda García Serrano by Dinner

Best Leading Actress

• Patricia López Arnaiz by Sundays

Best Leading Actor

• José Ramón Soroiz by Maspalomas

Best Supporting Actress

• Nagore Aranburu by Sundays

Best Supporting Actor

• Álvaro Cervantes by Deaf

Best New Actress

• Miriam Garlo by Deaf

Best New Actor

• Antonio 'Toni' Fernández Gabarre by City without sleep

Best Original Music

• Kangding Ray by Sirado

Best Original Song

• Flowers for Antonioby Alba Flores and Sílvia Pérez Cruz Flowers for Antonio

Better production direction

• Oriol Maymó by Sirado

Best cinematography

• Mauro Herce by Sirado

Better assembly

• Cristóbal Fernández by Sirado

Best Art Direction

• Laia Ateca Source by Sirado

Best Costume Design

• Nicoletta Taranta by The captive

Better makeup and hairstyling

• Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver and Nacho Díaz for The captive

Better sound

• Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas and Yasmina Praderas by Sirado

Better special effects

• Oscar Abades and Carmen Garcia by The tigers

Best Animated Feature

• Decorated, directed by Alberto Vázquez

Best Documentary Feature

• Afternoons of solitudeby Albert Serra

Best Latin American Film

• Nativity scene (Argentina)

Best European Film

• Sentimental value (Norway)

Best fiction short film

• Angelo dead, directed by Cristian Beteta

Best Short Documentary Film

• The Saint, directed by Carlo D'Ursi

Best Animated Short Film

• Gilbert, directed by Jordi Jiménez