Barcelona will host the 40th edition of the Goya Awards, as announced this Tuesday by the president of the Spanish Film Academy, Fernando Méndez-Leite, during an event held at the institution's headquarters. The first time the Goya Awards were held outside of Madrid was also in Barcelona, during the 14th edition—marking the first ceremony in history to take place outside the capital.   "25 years after our Goya Awards in Barcelona, today we announce our return to a c...

                      For the first time in the history of the Goyas, the Goya for Best Feature Film, was awarded to two films: the historical drama set in 1970s Barcelona, The 47 directed by Marcel Barrena and the thriller set in the Basque Country Undercover, directed by Arantxa Echevarría. The award winners:                           ...

The actress Aitana Sánchez-Gijón will be recognized with the Goya Honorary Award of 2025, a prize for her career that the institution will present to her at the Goya Awards Gala, which will take place on February 8 at the Conference Palace in the city of Granada. Nearly 40 years of film career back the actress, who won the Silver Shell for Best Actress at the San Sebastian Film Festival for Volavérunt, directed by Bigas Luna, and received her first Goya nomination for Mad...

 The American actor and producer will receive Spain's highest award for an international filmmaker on February 8th in Granada “for his extraordinary contribution to the art of cinema, starring in some of the most iconic films in the history of cinema, and for his personal and professional social commitment. Richard Gere will meet with the media on February 7th in the Andalusian city Days of Heaven, Officer and a Gentleman, American Gigolo, The Cotton Club, Pretty Woman, and the ...

             The 33rd edition of the Spanish Academy of Film Arts and Sciences Awards, aka The Goyas, took place in Sevilla. Surpringly, the film winning all major categories didn´t get the Goya for Best Film. The political thriller The Realm by Rodrigo Sorogoyen – co-produced with – ended up with seven Goyas: including Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best ing Actor (Galician Luis Zahera) and Best L...

Nominees to the 31st Goya Awards got together for its annual dinner before the ceremony due on the 4th of February.                         Interviews, photographies, hugs and confession between collegues were the common denominator in this meeting with directors Raúl Arévalo, Paco León, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Marc Crehuet, Salvador Calvo, Nely Reguera, José Luis López Linares y Alberto Vázq...

Last night Madrid held the 30th annual Goya Awards ceremony. Among guest the Spanish Academy , politicians, four Academy Award winners, and even a Nobel Prize- Hosting the gala, Dani Rovira, who for the second time in a row, tried to make the gala long less than 3 hours. Not many surprises among winners. Spanish academics are quite predictable and the film Truman got five out of six, awards. The most nominated film, La Novia, an adaptation of Lorca´s Bodas de Sangre, only obtei...

   The 30th Goya Awards ceremony will be held in Madrid this coming Saturday. As usual nominees gathered together for the Nominees Gala Night. For the first time a drone was used to take the group snap. 'La Novia' is leading the nominations with 12 followed by the drama 'Truman'. La Novia´s main cast is nominated in different categories. Inma Cuesta won as best actress in the past Feroz Awards considered as the Spanish Golden Globes. Mariano Ozores will recei...

The 29th Goya Awards ceremony took place last night in Madrid, The Spanish Academy Awards awarded the film 'La Isla Minima' ten times, winning the most imortant Goyas such as Best Flm, Director, Actor, Original sript, Photography and music amos¡ng them. A never ending ceremony, hosted by Dani Rovira who also won Best New Actor, had in Antonio Banderas one of the momentum of the night when the Spanish actor received his Honorary Goya from his mentor Pedro Almodóvar. ...

The 29th Goya Awards ceremony took place last night in Madrid, The Spanish Academy Awards awarded the film 'La Isla Minima' ten times, winning the most imortant Goyas such as Best Flm, Director, Actor, Original sript, Photography and music amos¡ng them. A never ending ceremony, hosted by Dani Rovira who also won Best New Actor, had in Antonio Banderas one of the momentum of the night when the Spanish actor received his Honorary Goya from his mentor Pedro Almodóvar. ...

            Yet another year we gathered in Madrid to hear the full list of nominees to the 29th Goya Awards.  Winners will be announced during the Gala Night next Feb.7th also in Madrid. The thriller LA ISLA MINIMA goes ahead with 17 nominations followed by EL NIÑO with 16 and the co-production RELATOS SALVAJES with 9. Relatos Salvajes will represent Argentina at the Oscars and it has been nominated for the Goya as best film in both categories: nation...

                                      Antonio Banderas, film actor, director, producer and even singer was announced today to be this year´s Goya Honorary Award. He will receive this honor during the Spanish Academy Awards Ceremony, known as The Goyas, on Feb 8 2015. The Goya Award, are Spain's main national annual film awards. Considered  by many in S...

Dani Rovira will be hosting the Goya Awards ceremony next February in Madrid. Stand-up comedian and star of the biggest box office hit in Spanish history, `8 Apellidos Vascos’, Dani Rovira may be himself one of the nominees. His name was announced today by the President of the Spanish Academia, Enrique González Macho.  Dani Rovira attended the media relaxed and happy. He said that when he was asked he immediately said yes but then when he got home, he freaked out. ...

            The beautiful film telling the story of this English teacher who travels Spain ti meet John Lenon at a set in Almería and ask him to add lyrics to his LP´s. Based on a true story written and directed by David Trueba who won this 2 Goya Awards(Best Director and Best screenplay). Javier Cámara won his first Goya for Best Actor for the portrait of this teacher and Natalia de Molina won hers as a New Actress.  The sixth Goya was to ...

Jaime de Armiñan received his Honorary Goya 2014 in the Nominees Gala hold in Madrid two weeks ago. The Spanish film director and screenwriter, aged 84, was moved by this honorary award handed out by his colleagues at the Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences of Spain.  “A ionate dedication to the cinema since the 60´s, a creative cinema committed with his time and potential stories always conceived without conventionalisms”. In his long carreer he al...

 Spanish actors Clara Lago and Quim Gutierrez hosted today in Madrid the reading of the list of Nominees to the 28th Goya Awards. In this time of crisis and difficulties in Spain, the of the Academia de Cine have made a selection of comedies as their favorite films to this year´s Goya Awards. The Great Spanish Family leads the list with 12 nominations including Best Film and Best Director, followed by Witching and Bitching with 10. Canibal, with 8 nominations, is a drama sta...

                       The showman Manel Fuentes will be hosting the Goya Awards on February 9, at the Palacio de Congresos Principe Felipe in Madrid. Just like the Americans who chose Ellen DeGeneres, a showoman and TV presenter to lead the Oscars, the Spanish Academy of Cinema has announced today that TV presenter Manel Fuentes will be the man in charge at the 28th Goya Awards. He w...

Last Sunday Paco Delgado won his Goya Award for Best Wardrobe for his work in Blancanieves.  Next coming Sunday he will try to win his first Oscar for his work in Les Miserables. Great job Paco Delgado.  How come Naomi Watts is the other Spanish options at the Oscars? The Impossible is a Spanish film with an international cast. Naomi Watts is nominated for her role as the mother of one the families survivors of the 2004´s tsunami.  Based on a true story The Impossible ...

Black and White silent movie Blancanieves is the greatest winner at the 27th Goya Awards A total of 10 Goya Awards went to 'Blancanieves', 5 to  'Lo Imposible', 3 to 'Tadeo Jones', 2 to 'Grupo 7' y 1 to 'El Muerto y Ser Feliz', 'Una Pistola en Cada Mano', 'Hijos de las Nubes', 'Intocable' y 'Juan de los Muertos'. A bir if surprise when Academy voted for Juan Antonio Bayona as the Best Director. One of the fe...

This coming Sunday Filmfestivals in collaboration with CINeol will attend the Goya Awards Ceremony in Madrid, Spain. Four films mostly have all nominations. Favorite with 18 is Blancanieves (Snow White).  Eight years took Pablo Berger to finish this production. A black&white,  silent film. Yes, in the meantime The Artist happened…Anyway, it´s a great film and since its premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival (winning Silver Shell for Best Actress and a Jury&acut...

Last Monday, the Goya Awards Nominees Gala Night was hold in Madrid. It is the first important meeting before the Goya Ceremony due in Feb 17th. Among guest we spotted Juan Antonio Bayona, Pablo Berger, Fernando Trueba and  Alberto Rodriguez, directors of the four films fighting for the Best Film (The Impossible, Blancanieves, The artist and the model and Unit 7). Actresses and actors, novels or veterans all pleased and honored by their nominations. Technicians, editors, writers, ...

  Concha Velasco received last night in Madrid, the Honorary Goya Award. The Spanish actress was the special guest at the Goya Awards Nominess Gala Night. In her acceptance speech she ited that if cinema had not been created she would have go to and created herself. This much is how she loves to be an actress. She begun acting when she was 14 now that she´s 73 and with a long and successfull carrier in all areas: films,tv and on stage, she was thilled to be honor wit...

27th Goya Awards Nominees Today at the Academy of Cinematographic Sciences in Madrid, Goya awards winners, Elena Anaya and Antonio de la Torre ed Enrique Gonzalez Macho, President of the Academy in the reading of the nominees to the 27th Goya Awards. A happy Antonio de la Torre received two nominations in two different categories. Also special was the nomination of a mother and her two children. Paco León, a famous tv actor in Spain directed his first film Carmina o revienta and ...

On Sunday Spanish cinema lovers will be glue to the TV screen to see if our two options for winning a new Academy Award come true. Goya winners Chico&Rita and Alberto Iglesias are our candidates. Chico&Rita is nominated in the best animated film category and Alberto Iglesias in the best Original Score for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. Academy Award winner, Fernado Trueba is leading the production of Chico&Rita with Estudio Mariscal and Magic Ligh Pictures (Reino ...

                                    Alberto Iglesias won last Sunday his tenth Goya Award for the best Original Score of Pedro Almodóvar´s The Skin I live In. He may win his first Academy Awars, an Oscar this coming Sunday. He got the nomination to the Oscar Awards for the best Original Score for the origi...