2021 Goya Awards Winners
Salvador Calvo won best director for the three-part, Africa-set drama “Adú,” a Netflix pick-up produced by Telecinco Cinema that was one of Spain’s biggest box office hits of 2020.
Mario Casas won best actor for “No Matarás” and Patricia López Arnaíz won best actress for her role in “Ane is Missing.”
Spain´s biggest stars including Pedro Almódovar, Penélope Cruz, Paz Vega and Alejandro Amenábar joined with host presenter, Antonio Banderas, a Malaga native to give the awards.
However the biggest applause of the night went to nurse Ana Ruiz López, who presented the best film award. She had won plaudits for organizing a makeshift hospital in a hanger during the height of the pandemic last March and then went on to organising entertainment for patents in local hospitals – where she still works.
Mid-ceremony, M.C. Antonio Banderas, a Malaga native, recalled saying goodbye to his driver and technicians when “Official Competition” was closed down when COVID-19 hit Spain last March and thinking that these people – who will bear the brunt of shoot stoppage – and with whom he had coincided on shoots down the years- were family. Earlier, he called on his sector to use lockdown to reflect on how cinema can serve its society.
International celebrities joined the festivities with pre-recorded messages of support from the likes of Robert DeNiro, Al Pacino, Dustin Hoffman, Helen Mirren, Charlize Theron, Salma Hayek,Sylvester Stallone, Benicio del Toro and Emma Thompson.
2021’s Honorary Goya went to Angela Molina, star of Luis Buñuel’s last film, “The Obscure Object of Desire,” and Jaime Chavarri’s “Las cosas del querer,” and star of some of Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón’s greatest films, such as “Heart of the Forest.”
Hailed as one of the most important Spanish films made this century, Luis López Carrasco’s “The Year of the Discovery,” a searing account of industrial reconversion in 1992, which anticipated Spain’s recessions from the 2008 financial crisis, won best documentary in the strongest nominee lineup in years.
2021 35th GOYA AWARDS IN FULL
FILM
“Schoolgirls,” (Pilar Palomero)
DIRECTOR
Salvador Calvo, (“Adú”)
NEW DIRECTOR
Pilar Palomero, (“Schoolgirls”)
ACTRESS
Patricia López Arnaiz, (“Ane”)
ACTOR
Mario Casas, (“No matarás”)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Nathalie Poza (“Rosa’s Wedding”)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Alberto San Juan, (“Sentimental”)
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Pilar Palomero (“Schoolgirls”)
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
David Pérez Sañudo, Marina Parés Pulido (“Ane”)
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Daniela Cajías (“Schoolgirls”)
ORIGINAL MUSIC
Aránzazu Calleja, Maite Arroitajauregi (“Akelarre”)
ORIGINAL SONG
“Que no, que no,” (María Rozalén for “Rosa’s Wedding”)
NEW ACTOR
Adam Nourou, (“Adú”)
NEW ACTRESS
Jone Laspiur, (“Ane”)
ANIMATED FEATURE
“Turu, the Wacky Hen,” (Eduardo Gondell, Víctor Monigote)
IBERO-AMERICAN FILM
“Forgotten We’ll Be,” (Fernando Trueba, Colombia)
EUROPEAN PICTURE
“The Father,” (Florian Zeller, U.K., France)
DOCUMENTARY
“The Year of the Discovery,” (Luis López Carrasco)
HONORARY GOYA
Angela Molina
LIVE-ACTION SHORT FILM
“A la cara,” (Javier Marco)
ANIMATED SHORT FILM
“Blue & Malone: Casos imposibles,” (Abraham López Guerrero)
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
“Biography of a Woman’s Corpse,” (Mabel Lozano)
EDITING
Sergio Jiménez, (“The Year of the Discovery”)
PRODUCTION DESIGN
Ana Parra, Luis Fernández Lago (“Adú”)
COSTUME DESIGN
Nerea Torrijos, (“Akelarre”)
ART DIRECTION
Mikel Serrano (“Akelarre”)
SOUND
Eduardo Esquide, Jamaica Ruíz García, Juan Ferro, Nicolas de Poulpiquet (“Adú”)
MAKEUP AND HAIR DESIGN
Beata Wotjowicz, Ricardo Molina (“Akelarre”)
SPECIAL EFFECTS
Mariano García Marty, Ana Rubio, (“Akelarre”)
