Goyas return to normal with the party of winners

Fernando Méndez Leite, president of the Film Academy, almost 170 guests To this meeting that took place at Florida Park Retiro in Madrid.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen, director of ‘As bestas’, which received seventeen nominations, is not so sure it’s a guarantee of success. “I don’t think so there’s never been a year with so many favorite movies“Neither duel nor rivals,” Sorogoyen protested, “this is the night of colleagues celebrating good Spanish cinema” and Goya’s 38th edition is in February in Seville, where the awards ceremony returns this year 11- “other friends will decide, surely very few votes What is your favorite movie?

-also 17 nominations for ‘As bestas’ 16 “Modelo 77” and eleven “Alcarràs” and “Cinco Lobitos” followed, followed by “Cerdita” and “Los renglones torcidos de Dios”, each competing for six figurines. For the first time this year, there are five nominees in each of the 28 categories.

“this year is great -says Carmen Machi, who was nominated for ‘Cerdita’-, we’re coming from a terrible time and there was an explosion in something that had been brewing for so long that it didn’t come out of nowhere and it was an explosion of curiosity. abundance of women “But it should be normalized now,” he thinks, because it shows that just by seeing which films and which directors compete, he believes that positive discrimination will soon disappear.

The Madrid native, who has made six films this year, believes this is Goya, competing with Penélope Cruz (“En los márgenes”), Marie Colomb (“As bestas”), Ángela Cervantes (“La maternal”) and Susi. Sánchez (“Five wolves”) Must have for Sánchez. “When I finished watching ‘Cinco Lobitos,’ I realized that this person should be rewarded with everything there is, I’m going to Seville just to applaud them,” she smiles.

one of those examples Laura Pedro choosing her third Goya for the special effects of ‘Malnazidos’He thought: “We have a good ‘mandanga’ this year, we should be proud of our talent, we don’t need to prove anything anymore”, he thought.

For Isaki Lacuesta, the director of ‘One day, one night’, it is not so clear that this ‘harvest’ is something entirely new; “He came before – he thinks – but I can’t live life as a statistic. The perception that this is a very good harvest is due to the fact that there are more films with a popular profession.; In other years there have been very good films that have been successful at international festivals, but no one found out”.

Friends, “almost sisters”

Anna Castillo, who won Goya as a revelation actress with ‘El olivo’, has already been nominated three more times, but on this occasion she says she “doesn’t care who wins” in her category because compete with friends who are almost “sisters”. “I think the movies in particular have been of a very high quality this year, I don’t know if that has anything to do with what’s going on with the pandemic, but the break has been good, it works,” Castillo says.

In his group, Marina Foïs for ‘As bestas’, Laia Costa for ‘Cinco Lobitos’; Barbara Lennie for “Los renglones torcidos de Dios” and Vicky Luengo for “Suro” are one of Castillo’s “sisters” celebrating the number of women nominated.

“I thought about how lucky I am to be here with how difficult this year has been, this is my first time and I’m so excited to be able to experience it,” said the actress from Palma de Mallorca, star of ‘Suro’. And its director, Mikel Gurrea, newcomer from the Basque Country, aptly summed it up: “It was an extraordinary collection and we are the fruit of that harvest, we are so proud”.

Rozalén, who also won Goya with ‘Rosa’s wedding’, was nominated for ‘En los margenes’, but Pretty sure Leiva will take it.For ‘I’m so sorry’. “When I have a weakness with Joaquín (Sabina), it’s enough for me to run with him,” the singer says.

There were some shortcomings, such as those of the best leading actor nominees, but they embraced Luis Zahera, who was nominated for Jesús Carroza and Galician for ‘As bestas’ and Sevillian for ‘Modelo 77’.