The Goya Awards will be held at the Barcelona International Convention Center on February 28, 2026.

BarcelonaThe Goyas will be held at the Barcelona International Convention Centre, in the Parc del Fòrum, on February 28, 2026. This will be the 40th edition of the awards ceremony, and it is not the first time that the Catalan capital has hosted the awards organized by the Spanish Film Academy. However, the last time was 26 years ago.

Among other new features, the mayor of Barcelona, ​​​​Jaume Collboni, explained that seven giant Goyas will be installed in the city. These are the ones built by the Fallas masters when the awards were held in Valencia in 2021. In addition, a walk of fame will be held with all the Catalan award winners throughout the 39 previous editions, which will be installed in the last section of Diagonal, before reaching the Fòrum. "We want the public to enjoy these events, to open them up to the fullest in the city. Apart from celebrating the great films that will be awarded, we want everyone to experience cinema, especially the youngest and children," the mayor stated.

Almost 26 years ago, on January 29, 2000, they were held at L'Auditori, which had just opened the previous year, and at that gala the big winner was All about my mother, by Pedro Almodóvar. In fact, Barcelona was the first city to host the awards after Madrid, where the first thirteen galas were held. The last edition of the Goya Awards was held in Granada, and in previous years, the ceremony was held in cities such as Valladolid, Seville, Valencia, and Malaga.

All the reasons you can imagine to do it in Barcelona

"The choice of the Catalan capital is an undeniable recognition of the strength, talent, and unstoppable dynamism of our cinema. Catalan cinema is experiencing a sensational moment," stated the Minister of Culture, Sònia Hernández Almodóvar. "Returning here is a profound recognition of a city. Catalan cinema has been with me all my life," explained the president of the Spanish Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite. "There are every reason you can imagine to celebrate the Goya Awards in Barcelona," he said, recalling the importance Catalan cinema has had since the post-war period, with the Catalan film noir of the 1950s and 1960s, the Escola de Barcelona, avant-garde cinema, and Chess. "Chess is the breeding ground for half of Spanish cinema in recent times," he asserted.

The president of the Spanish Film Academy has stated that at the next edition of the Goya Awards they will be "radical" in limiting the acceptance speeches to one minute: "The last time I left the gala furious. The dress rehearsal had gone like clockwork and with the speeches of."