Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Alberto Iglesias, nominated for the 2022 Oscar Awards

The Spanish Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz have been nominees to the best performers in the 94th edition of the Oscar Awards. A pleasant surprise, although they were in many of the bets for these candidates.

In addition, there will be Spanish representation in the category to which best soundtrack thanks to Alberto Iglesias for ‘Parallel Mothers’. For its part, the film ‘El Buen Patron’, by Fernando León de Aranoa, although it was one of the pre-selected, was finally left out of the race for the statuette.

These are the categories and the teammates against which the Spaniards will compete:

Penelope Cruz for Best Leading Actress

This is the Penelope Cruz’s fourth nomination to the Oscars. Award that was finally won in 2009 for ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona’. She had a previous nomination for ‘Volver’ and a more recent one for ‘Nine’ in 2010. This edition the actress will have to compete with Jessica Chastain for ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’, Olivia Colman for ‘The Dark Daughter’, Nicole Kidman for ‘Ser los Ricardos’ and Kristen Stewart for ‘Spencer’.

Javier Bardem for Best Leading Actor

For Javier Bardem also his fourth nomination to the Academy Awards. The Madrid interpreter was nominated for the films ‘Antes que anochezca’ and ‘Biutiful’, but only managed to win the statuette with the film ‘No es pais para viejo’ in 2007.

This year he will compete with his role in ‘Being the Ricardos’ against Andrew Garfield for ‘Tick, Tick, Boom’, Will Smith for ‘The Williams Method’, Denzel Washington for ‘The Tragedy of Macbeth’ and Benedict Cumberbatch for ‘The Power of the Dog’ ‘.

Alberto Iglesias for best soundtrack

The musician Alberto Iglesias will opt for the statuette for the fourth time of the Oscars thanks to the soundtrack written for the film ‘Mothers Parallels’ by Pedro Almodóvar. On previous occasions, for ‘The Constant Gardener’ (2005), ‘Kites in the Sky’ (2007) and ‘The Mole’ (2011), she finally did not win the award. We will have to wait until March 27, to find out what happens this time. At the moment we know that he will compete against Hans Zimmer for ‘Dune’, Germaine Franco for ‘Charm’, Nicholas Brittel for ‘Don’t Look Up’ and Jonny Greenwood for ‘The Power of the Dog’).