Juan Antonio Bayona has risen with the Goya for best direction for ‘The Snow Society’his vision on the Andes air tragedy 1972. The film marks Bayona’s return to Spanish 15 years after “El orfanato” (2007).
In his speech, Bayona assured that the film sector in Spain needs a “constant and strong public”because “it is not in a good moment” despite the fact that, “with fewer resources” so much talent is being deployed.
The director has also thanked the Film Academy for the promotion for the Oscars: “I hope we achieve it in the name of everyone”. Likewise, when he also went up to collect the Goya for best film, he expressed with emotion that he feels part of the family of Spanish cinema. “I am very proud to be part of this family. I am happy to make this effort. This is yours (the award). Let’s work together and collaborate, because together we can achieve whatever we want,” he added.
This year his opponents were Víctor Erice, nominated for ‘Close Your Eyes’; Elena Martín for ‘Creatura’; David Trueba for ‘They know that’ and Isabel Coixet for ‘Un amor’.
Víctor Erice, for ‘Close your eyes’
“If I close my eyes I see myself as a child in one of those seats,” the Basque filmmaker said last September Victor Erice in front of the Victoria Eugenia theater in San Sebastián, where even then received the second Donostia Award at the 71st edition of the homonymous Festival. And precisely because of this film, ‘Cerrar los ojos’ – with José Coronado, Manolo Solo and Ana Torrent as protagonists – has reached these Goya awards. However, they are not the only awards in his career, nor the only film in his filmography in which he makes metacinema.
After moving to Madrid in the early 60s to enroll in the Official School of Cinematography, it did not take long for him to release his first work, The lost days. It is a 40-minute fiction about an emigrant’s return to Spain which also served as his final project to obtain a degree as a director. During these years, in which He has also been a documentary filmmaker and teacher, has received several recognitions for his career. Among them are the National Cinematography Award, the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts or the Leopard of Honor at the Locarno Festival. In addition to Close your eyes, these are his films:
- Miguel Picazo, an extramural filmmaker (2016)
- Historical Center (2012)
- 24 Hours in the life of Querejeta (2012)
- Víctor Erice: Paris-Madrid allers-retours (2010)
- A place in the cinema (2007)
- Sea-Mail (2006)
- The Morte Rouge (2006)
- Notes (1990-2003) (2003)
- Delivery (2002)
- Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (2002)
- The quince sun (1992)
- The South (1983)
- The spirit of the hive (1973)
- The challenges (1969)
- The lost days (1963)
Elena Martín, for ‘Creatura’
Elena Martín straddles the line between actress and director in her latest film, Creaturebut it is for this second facet that she opted for the Goya and for which she was already nominated in the last edition of the Feroz, in addition to awarded at the Gaudí 2023. The young woman from Barcelona became known about ten years ago when she played the protagonist of the film Agata’s friendsHowever, his passion for the screen has also led him to participate in the smaller one with his recent appearance in the series Poison, from Los Javis . And even a couple of years ago he dared to direct the video clip for the song ‘Perra’ by Rigoberta Bandini.
During his short professional career, Martín has already accumulated a fortnight of work in which the intimate and the feminine take up a large part of the plots.
- Unicorns (2023)
- Creature (2023)
- The impossible color (2023)
- We will not kill ourselves with guns (2022)
- The TV miniseries At home (2020)
- Stormy Night (2020)
- At home: Watch this video of kittens (2020)
- The woman of the century (2019)
- With the wind (2018)
- Júlia ist (2017)
- Àgata’s friends (2015)
David Trueba, for ‘They know that’
David Trueba visited the La Roca program last November days after premiering his latest film They know thatthe film that led him to sweep the Gaudís and awarded a Feroz to its protagonist David Verdaguer for embodying the Catalan comedian Eugenio Jofra. During his speech he assured that small screens are not your thingHowever, his professional career says the opposite of the writer on the big screen as well.
Although Trueba was vice president of the Spanish Film Academy for three years, he is not a filmmaker by vocation, but rather a journalist. A question that led him to write in large national newspapers, script television programs such as ‘Sopa de Gansos’, or be a lyricist for Rosa León or Andrés Calamaro. The latter was responsible for putting soundtrack to the film directed by the Madrid native welcome homeawarded at the Goya.
- They know that (2024)
- On this side of the world (2020)
- If the wind erased what I sing (2019)
- Almost 40 (2018)
- Living is easy with your eyes closed (2013)
- Madrid, 1987 (2011)
- What happened to Jorge Sanz? (2010)
- Fernando’s chair (2006)
- welcome home (2005)
- There is reason! (2004)
- Soldiers of Salamis (2003)
- Masterpiece (2000)
- The good life (1997)
Isabel Coixet, for ‘Un amor’
“Behind the camera there are no borders, passports, flags or limits,” he said. Isabel Coixet after receiving the European Achievement Award for his contribution to world cinema. Nor are there any in the list of awards received throughout his cinematographic career that germinated, neither more nor less during his earliest childhood, when His grandmother sold tickets to a Barcelona movie theater.
Although his career as such began with short films in the 80s, he soon made his first feature film. Too Old to Die Young and to receive her first Goya as a Nobel director with the same film. In addition to video clips and advertisements, Coixet has also made documentaries such as Spain in a day either The yellow roof. Now works with Penélope Cruz in The days of abandonment with premiere forecasts for 2025.
- One Love (2023)
- It snows in Benidorm (2020)
- Elisa and Marcela (2019)
- Project Time. Part IV: Brainstart (2018)
- The bookstore (2017)
- Speaking of Rose, prisoner of Hisène Habré (2015)
- Nobody wants the night (2015)
- Learning to drive (2014)
- My other self (2013)
- Yesterday never ends (2013)
- Map of the sounds of Tokyo (2009)
- Paris, je t’aime (2006)
- The secret Life of the words (2005)
- Journey to the heart of torture (2003)
- To those who love (1998)
- Too old to die young (1988)
Source: Lasexta
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