MADRID.- The Snow Society sweeps today -February 10- at the Awards Goya by taking 12 of the 13 awards it was up for, including best film and best director for Juan Antonio Bayona.
Matas Recalt, who plays Roberto Canessa, one of the survivors of the plane crash in the Andes immortalized in the blockbuster, won the only acting award for which the film was eligible, that of best-known actor.
“To my friends from the mountains (…), to the survivors of the Andes, to those who did not return and to their families (…) for letting us tell this story, the Argentine thanked.
The Bayonne film – filmed between Spain, Uruguay and Argentina and which according to the director has been seen by more than 150 million people around the world through the streaming platform. streaming Netflix – won in all technical categories, from sound to art direction, editing, special effects or makeup and hairstyling, whose team is also competing for the Oscar.
David Verdaguer and Malena Alterio were recognized for their leading role in They know that one y let no one sleeprespectively.
Recalt, who sent a very big hug to his country, which is going through a very delicate moment, in reference to the arrival of Javier Milei to the presidency, added to the protest tone of the night.
Sexual harassment at the Goya
The first to do so, as soon as the night began, was one of the hosts of the gala, the actress Ana Belén, who addressed the recent controversy that is affecting Spanish cinema due to the allegations of sexual harassment against two directors that became public in the last weeks
It is urgent that we all demand certainties of equality. This means condemning all sexual abuse and violence, and thoroughly reviewing the structures that allow it. Here, in the cinema, it is also over, he added, using the slogan popularized by the soccer players of the Spanish team after their victory in the World Cup was overshadowed by a non-consensual kiss to the player Jenni Hermoso.
In the first year with a majority of women nominated for the awards, 61%, the “It’s over” was the most repeated message of the night: from the interpretation of the song of the same name popularized by the late María Jiménez, in the voices of Nia Pastori, Mara Jos Llerg and India Martnez, to the speech by Susi Sánchez, vice president of the Academy.
“I ask for a future where equality is the norm and not the exception… we want spaces of respect and equality in our profession and in any other area of society. The abuse of power and violence against women is over, declared Sánchez. .
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren, who started out as the great favorite of the night with the 15 nominations that her debut opera received for 20,000 species of bees won the categories of Best New Director and Best Original Screenplay for a film that narrates the summer in which Luca presents herself as a transgender girl to her family.
The Chilean film The infinite memorywhere Maite Alberdi tells how the couple formed by Augusto and Paulina face his Alzheimer’s diagnosis, won the award for Best Ibero-American Film on the eve of facing Bayona in the fight for the Oscar for Best International Feature Film.
Another of the films present at the American Academy Awards, the French Anatomy of a eachby Justine Triet, won the award for Best European Film of the Year.
Another of the winners of the night was Pablo Berger, who was up for the Oscar for Best Animated Film, winning in the same category at the Goya with Robot Dreams in his first foray into the genre, in addition to winning the award for best adapted screenplay for his work with the graphic novel of the same name by Sara Varon.
Berger wanted to remember the public who bought his ticket and went to the cinema to see Robot Dreams. “Because Robot Dreams is only in the cinema. Long live cinema in theaters.
When collecting her International Goya, American Sigourney Weaver highlighted that throughout her career her desire has been to find stories that teach women how powerful they are. With a speech mixing English and Spanish, she thanked María Luisa Sol, the actress who has dubbed her in more than 30 films since Alien.
With more than 90 years of career behind him, the veteran director of photography, film restorer and researcher Juan Marín, 103 years old, received the Goya of Honor.
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