Since this Saturday night all the winners of the 2023 Goya Awards were announcednumerous criticisms have arisen to the distribution of the awards, which Most of them took ‘As Bestas’, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and ‘Modelo 77’, by Alberto Rodríguez. On the other hand, films like ‘Alcarràs’, by Carla Simón, or ‘La Maternal’, by Pilar Palomero, left empty-handed at the Spanish film festival. Was the result fair? Who decides which films should be awarded and which not?
The film director Luis López Carrasco, author of works such as ‘The Year of Discovery’, has responded to these questions through an interesting Twitter thread in which he has detailed the structure of the Film Academy and how decisions are made. decisions to opt for one or the other feature film as winner in the different categories. At the beginning of his assessment, the filmmaker already warns that the system is not the same as the one used in other galayes, like that of the Fierce.
“The Film Academy is an entity made up of film professionals (both active and not). The Goya Awards are, therefore, professional recognitions chosen democratically by secret vote of its nearly 2,000 members”, has explained López Carrasco, who has pointed out: “They are not chosen by a jury either, as happens in festivals“. This means, as he has specified, that there are no meetings to discuss which film has the most merit to win an award.
In this sense, the film director has stressed that “when it is said ‘The Academy has decided to reward’, a rhetorical figure is being used that is not very consistent with the reality of the process, which does not obey any explicit, voluntary or collegiate institutional procedure “. Thus, although for the Goya Awards formulas common to other electoral processes are followed – “it has its lobbies, related to associations and territories” -, The author understands that “it is difficult to consider” that there is a single criterion: “There are 2,000 criteria”.
Thus, López Carrasco has recalled that “the academics are grouped by Specialty Commissions”, which, as he has highlighted, has “a specific weight in the nominations”. “The awards are voted for by all the academics equally, while in the nominations the vote of people from the same specialty has more weight.” In this point, yes, the film director sees “a positive change” in the celebration of these awards, their nominations and winners, compared to previous editions.
“The previous directive, of which the current one is the continuation, contributed to the admission requirements favoring the entry of younger and more diverse people. The directive considered a gradual generational change desirable”, he has expressed, stressing that, if they are observed The films nominated this year highlight “many independent works from small production companies, not backed by any big group.” Along these lines, López Carrasco believes that “Five years ago it would be unthinkable that most of the nominees would have had so much representation“.
“The truth is that, like it or not, these prizes are quite unpredictablelike life and, ahem, like democracy”, concludes the filmmaker in his analysis.
Source: Lasexta
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