Almodóvar reigns at the Goyas again

by Nathaniel R

You'll read a lot of headlines saying that Pain and Glory swept the Goyas but it's not technically true. Though it won big it lost the bulk of its craft competitions and won only two of its five acting nominations. Still there's plenty of reason to celebrate if you're an Almodóvar junkie like we are here at TFE. The master's self-reflection took home seven Goyas including Best Film, Best Director and Best Actor for Antonio Banderas, who is of course also nominated at the Oscars. But Pain and Glory didn't have the night to itself. Each of the five Best Film nominees took home at least one prize with While at War, the latest from Alejandro Amenábar (The Others) clearly in runner up position as it won five categories including a win in Supporting Actor where it beat out both of the nominees from Pain & Glory.  And ,yes, the rumors are true: Pedro accidentally let it slip on the red carpet that Penelope Cruz would be presenting Best International Film at the Oscars in February. 

Full list of Goya winners and a few notes after the jump...

 BEST FILM

★ “Pain and Glory” (Pedro Almodóvar)
“Out in the Open” (Benito Zambrano)
“The Endless Trench” (Aitor Arregui, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga)
“Fire Will Come” (Oliver Laxe)
“While at War” (Alejandro Amenábar)

Pain and Glory is the fourth Almodóvar film to win the top prize at the Goyas after Women on the Verge of Nervous Breakdown  (1988) , All About My Mother  (1999), and Volver  (2006). Among his other films, Tie Me Up Tie Me Down  (1990), Talk to Her  (2002), Bad Education  (2004), The Skin I Live In  (2011) and Julieta (2016) also competed for the top prize.

DIRECTOR

★ Pedro Almodóvar ("Pain and Glory")
Aitor Arregui, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga (“The Endless Trench”)
Oliver Laxe (“Fire Will Come”)
Alejandro Amenábar (“While at War”)

This is Almodóvar's third win at the Goyas in direction following All About My Mother and Volver.

NEW DIRECTOR

Salvador Simó (“Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles”)
Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia (“The Platform”)
★Belén Funes (“A Thief’s Daughter”)
Aritz Moreno (“Advantages of Traveling by Train”)

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

★ Pedro Almodóvar (“Pain and Glory”)
David Desola and Pedro Rivero (“The Platform”)
Jose Mari Goenaga and Luiso Berdejo (“The Endless Trench”)
Alejandro Amenábar and Alejandro Hernández (“While at War”)

This is only Pedro's second win in this category, despite four best film winners. His only other win at the Goyas for writing was Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

Eligio Montero and Salvador Simó (“Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles”)
★ Benito Zambrano, Daniel Remón and Pablo Remón (“Out in the Open”)
Isabel Peña and Rodrigo Sorogoyen (“Mother”)
Javier Gullón (“Advantages of Traveling by Train”)

ACTRESS

Penélope Cruz (“Pain and Glory”)
Greta Fernández (“A Thief’s Daughter”)
★ Belén Cuesta (“The Endless Trench”)
Marta Nieto (“Mother”)

This is Cuesta's third nomination in just four years and she's finally won. Sadly her films haven't  travelled here to the US so we are not at all familiar with her career. Meanwhile Cruz's strange lead actress nomination (given that it's a small role) can perhaps be explained by the fact that she's a major phenomenon at the Goyas with 12 nominations and 3 previous wins (The Girl of Your Dreams, Volver, Vicky Cristina Barcelona). 

ACTOR

★ Antonio Banderas (“Pain and Glory”)
Antonio de la Torre (“The Endless Trench”)
Karra Elejalde (“While at War”)
Luis Tosar (“Eye for an Eye”)

This is Banderas sixth nomination for acting -- his first came for Almodóvar's Matador (1986) but he'd never actually won a competitive Goya until now. He did receive an Honorary Goya five years ago, though.

SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Mona Martínez (“Adiós”)
Natalia de Molina (“Adiós”)
★ Julieta Serrano (“Pain and Glory”)
Nathalie Poza (“While at War”)

Serrano had never won before making this triumph extra sweet. Her first nomination (of an eventual three) was for Almodóvar's international breakthrough Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

SUPPORTING ACTOR

Asier Etxeandia ("Pain and Glory")
Luis Callejo (“Out in the Open”)
★ Eduard Fernández (“While at War”)
Leonardo Sbaraglia (“Pain and Glory”)

Fernandez wins for a third time. He is a favourite of the Goyas with 12 nominations in total. 

NEW ACTRESS

Pilar Gómez (“Adiós”)
Carmen Arrufat (“The Innocence”)
★ Benedicta Sánchez (“Fire Will Come”)
Ainhoa Santamaría (“While at War”)

NEW ACTOR

Nacho Sánchez (“Seventeen”)
Vicente Vergara (“The Endless Trench”)
Santi Prego (“While at War”)
★ Enric Auquer (“Eye for an Eye”)

"New" is relative. Auquer is a 32 year old actor with 6 films under his belt now and four previous recurring roles on TV series in Spain. 

ANIMATED FEATURE

★ “Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles” (Salvador Simó)
“Elcano & Magallanes: First Trip Around the World” (Ángel Alonso)
“Klaus” (Sergio Pablos)

Klaus may have received the Oscar nomination but Buñuel took home the Goya. 

DOCUMENTARY

★ “Ara Malikian: una vida entre las cuerdas” (Nata Moreno)
“Aute retrato” (Gaizka Urresti)
“El cuadro e Historias de nuestro cine” (Ana Pérez-Lorente, Antonio Resines)

EUROPEAN FILM

“Border” (Ali Abbasi, Sweden, Denmark)
★ “Les Misérables,” (Ladj Ly, France)
“Portrait of a Lady on Fire” (Céline Sciamma, France)
“Yesterday” (Danny Boyle, U.K.)

While Portrait of a Lady on Fire has won more buzz than Les Miserables here in the US, France and Spain both apparently like Les Miserables better. 

IBEROAMERICAN FILM

“Araña” (Andrés Wood, Chile)
“The Awakening of the Ants” (Antonella Sudasassi, Costa Rica)
★ “Heroic Losers” (Sebastián Borensztein, Argentina)
“Monos” (Alejandro Landes, Colombia)

All four of these were the submissions of their home country for this year's Oscars in Best International Film. Sadly, Oscar went nearly all European leaving Latin American films out of the equation.

CINEMATOGRAPHY

José Luis Alcaine (“Pain and Glory”)
Javi Agirre Erauso (“The Endless Trench”)
★ Mauro Herce (“Fire Will Come”)
Álex Catalán (“While at War”)

PRODUCTION MANAGEER

Toni Novella (“Pain and Glory”)
Manolo Limón (“Out in the Open”)
Ander Sistiaga (“The Endless Trench”)
★ Carla Pérez de Albéniz (“While at War”)

ART DIRECTION

Antxón Gómez (“Pain and Glory”)
Pepe Domínguez (“The Endless Trench”)
★ Juan Pedro de Gaspar (“While at War”)
Mikel Serrano (“Advantages of Traveling by Train”)

Antxón Gómez won this prize at the European Film Awards but in his home country he lost

ORIGINAL MUSIC

Arturo Cardelús (“Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles”)
★ Alberto Iglesias (“Pain and Glory”)
Pascal Gaigne (“The Endless Trench”)
Alejandro Amenábar (“While at War”)

ORIGINAL SONG

★ Intemperie by Javier Ruibal (“Out in the Open”)
Invisible by Caroline Pennell,Jussi Ilmari Karvinen (Jussifer), Justin Tranter (“Klaus”)
Allí en la arena by Toni M. Mir (“The Innocence”)
Nana de las dos lunas by Sergio de la Puente (“La noche de las dos lunas”)

EDITING

★ Teresa Font (“Pain and Glory”)
Laurent Dufreche, Raúl López (“The Endless Trench”)
Carolina Martínez Urbina (“While at War”)
Alberto del Campo (“Mother”)

SOUND

Sergio Bürmann, Pelayo Gutiérrez, Marc Orts (“Pain and Glory”)
★ Iñaki Díez, Alazne Ameztoy, Xanti Salvador, Nacho Royo-Villanova )“The Endless Trench”)
Aitor Berenguer, Gabriel Gutiérrez (“While at War”)
David Machado, Gabriel Gutiérrez, Yasmina Praderas (“Eye for an Eye”)

COSTUME DESIGN

Paola Torres (“Pain and Glory”)
Lourdes Fuentes, Saioa Lara (“The Endless Trench”)
★ Sonia Grande (“While at War”)
Alberto Valcárcel (“Paradise Hills”)

HAIR AND MAKEUP

Ana Lozano, Sergio Pérez Berbel, Montse Ribé (“Pain and Glory”)
Yolanda Piña, Félix Terrero, Nacho Díaz (“The Endless Trench”)
★ Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver, Nacho Díaz (“While at War”)
Karmele Soler, Olga Cruz (“Advantages of Traveling by Train”)

SPECIAL EFFECTS

★ Mario Campoy, Iñaki Madariaga (“The Platform”)
Jon Serrano, David Heras (“The Endless Trench”)
Raúl Romanillos, Juanma Nogales (“While at War”)
Juan Ramón Molina, Félix Bergés (“Perdiendo el Este”)

FICTION SHORT

“El nadador” (Pablo Barce)
“Foreigner” (Carlos Violadé Guerrero)
“Maras” (Salvador Calvo)
★ Suc de Síndria (Irene Moray)
Xiao Xian (Jiajie Yu)

DOCUMENTARY SHORT

“2001 Sparks in the Dark” (Pedro González Bermúdez)
“El infierno” (Raúl de la Fuente)
“The European Dream: Serbia” (Jaime Alekos)
★ “Our Life as Refugee Children in Europe” (Silvia Venegas)

ANIMATED SHORT

“El árbol de las almas perdidas,” (Laura Zamora Cabeza)
“Homomaquia” (David Fidalgo Omil)
★ “Madrid 2120” (José Luís Quirós, Paco Sáez)
“Muedra” (César Díaz Meléndez)

Congrats to the gorgeous Pain & Glory team! 

Comments

[Nick T]

So tremendously happy for all of Pain and Glory wins, and for Belèn Funes in New Director. A Thief’s Daughter is so brilliant.

[par]

penelope realises she's giving that oscar to parasite, right?

[Owl]

Good to hear of Pain and Glory's success at the Goyas.

Julieta Serrano is vivid in that film so I'm quite happy for her win. I wish both Exteandia and Sbaraglia continued success -- both are excellent actors in that film. I first saw Belén Cuesta in La Llamada aka "Holy Camp" on Netflix. I thought she overacted her role in that campy film but I saw a lot of promise in her overall, so I will be watching her films more. Too bad I didn't get to see Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles when it was showing in the city I was visiting.

[Manolito]

It's not Production Design it's Production Manager

[Tyht]

Its not production design but production coordination

[Pedro Sánchez]

Three months ago nobody in Spain knew who was Enric Auquer. Only hardcore catalan theatregoers.

[Luiserghio]

Belén Cuesta is really great in Paquita Salas (it's on Netflix), it's about a talent agent in crisis, there's a lot of actresses in the cast... you should watch it. :)

[Carol]

Thanks to cover spanish cinema prizes!!!!! Happy for Almodovar and banderas !!!!!! I love pain and glory !!!! I would like you could watch too “ while the war” from Amenábar !!! A wonderful film !!!!!! So happy we had two wonderful films this year !!!!

[TheDrMistery]

I hate when presenters are connected to films nominated in that category. As if Cruz couldn't present best make-up, costumes, editing, visual effects or short film, animated.

[Non Anon]

`New´actress, 84 year-old Benedicta Sánchez receiving her award

https://youtu.be/zEjwyyiIb6s

[Jaragon]

Happy for Almodovar and company

[Lupita]

Release all Catalan prisoners.