Juan Antonio Bayona has risen with the Feroz award for ‘Best Director’ for his film ‘The Snow Society’just three days after being nominated for this same film for ‘Best Foreign Film’ and ‘Best Makeup and Hairstyle’ at the Oscars, and have 13 nominations for the Goya Awards. “I didn’t expect it,” said the director, who thanked “all those who have given me their lives to tell.” “If it weren’t for them I wouldn’t be here,” he continued.

But he also took advantage of his intervention to thank the author of the book of the same name, Pablo Vierci, who was the one who “put him in contact with this story.”

“There are hundreds of people who have worked on this film“, thanked the actor, who thanked his “exceptional team” from Argentina, Chile, Spain and Uruguay because without them “he would not be here.” He also had words of gratitude for the “wonderful casting”: “You are the soul of the movie“, he assured.

And, as he assured Bayonne upon collecting his prize: “More than 100 million people around the world have already seen the film, made in Spain and in Spanish. And, what makes me even more excited is that of those 100 million, there are 400,000 people who have gone to see it in the cinema. “The Snow Society” is one of all of them,” he thanked. Some figures in front of which the public could not help but give in with their cheers and applause, in an eleventh edition of the Feroz Awards marked by the accusations of sexual violence against Carlos Vermut.