Candidates Goya Awards 2024 We met tonight in Madrid at a party that turned into a gathering of friends, like every year. competitiveness disappears and the pride that comes with living in Spanish cinema’s “moment of change” is today replaced by complicity.
“We live one moment of changeA significant generational change is taking place, many women are participating in the discourse, and this inevitably means that the issues that concern us and that we want to talk about and think about are becoming clearer. I think – commented Estíbaliz Urresola A few minutes before we head into dinner, which is very celebratory.
If last year Urresola stepped on the same red carpet as the author of the short ‘Cuerdas’, this year he comes with his first feature film ‘20,000 species of bees’. 15 candidatesand is a great example of his theory: a low-budget, intimate little film with a disturbing theme.
Variation
everything variation“Whether it is themes, views, sensibilities or languages, our region is a rich region, so the more of it there is on screens and in films, we will all benefit from it,” the Basque filmmaker assured.
On your side JA BayonaPresented ‘Snow Society’ to Goya with 13 nominations He complains about having to ‘go out of his way’ in the US to make a big-budget film.
“It costs me twice as much there because I’m Spanish and I’m the one making big budget movies here. Here they treat me like I’m from another league and when I go to the other league we enter through the back door.. “I’m not complaining or wouldn’t trade it for anything in the world,” he quickly confirms, “I feel very lucky.”
Despite this, the first awards of the season, Forqué Urresola, ‘wet the ears’ of the Spanish candidate for the Oscars.
“I am so happy and grateful to be able to bring this film to all corners of the world.I’m happy because it cost me a lot to do this: I gave everything I had and that gives me peace of mind,” said the Catalan.
190 participants
Film Academy President Fernando Méndez Leite welcomed the 190 guests of the 260 candidates attending the party tonight with many new faces; This is a detail that players celebrate.
About Laia Costa, the only candidate to repeat the same as last year, he said that she “always works with respect”, making a nice mention of actress Malena Alterio (“Let No One Sleep”), who won the ‘Cinco lobotos’ award in 2023. tremendous for the profession”; with Hugo Silva excited and grateful for his first time, or Manolo Solo, an old acquaintance competing for the first time as the lead actor for ‘Cerrar los ojos’, and you could see his pride in having made it.
David TruebaThe ‘film’ that competes with the wonderful transfer of Eugenio’s life to the cinemathey know thisWhile David Verdaguer and Carolina Yuste were nominated for best actor and actress respectively, he agreed with Bayona that “at an industrial level we all need to be convinced of the importance of a country’s cinema.”
“We must not forget that They are countries that support their industry and have a healthy and strong industry.“We know them as great,” he said, joking that one of his movies was made with the money Bayona spent on the food for his movie.
Isabel CoixetThe film, which competed with Goya for the best film award with ‘Un Amor’, suggested that the next step for female filmmakers was for producers to have self-confidence in big projects. “Our domain consists of two million candid movies. If they give me Star Wars 18, I know how to do it. “I’m not doing this because I don’t want to,” he defended.
All but Urresola, who is nominated for best new director, are in the running for the best director award for Goya, while Elena Martín is also in the running for ‘Creatura’, who cannot attend today. Yes, the nominated actors were Clàudia Malagelada (revelation), Clara Segura (cast) and Álex Brendemühl (cast); He himself assured that the rewards would never be fair. “The award or nomination does not equate to the quality of the players who can win it.“said.
Excited about the change of soundtrack, Vetusta Morla and Rigoberta Baldini paraded through Florida Park. They are happy that their names can attract young people to watch a movie, even if just out of curiosity, and the gorgeous Maite Alberdi. Hovic Keutchkerian, the big man dressed in all white, defending his beautiful ‘Eternal Memory’ or revealing his time between cameras with his loud laughter.
Goyas They will be delivered in Valladolid on February 10th at a premiere hosted by directors and screenwriters Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi together with Ana Belén. Doubts about the existence or non-existence of Víctor Erice. But as Jose Coronado said, “everything is a mystery.”