# 35th Goya Awards

The 35th Goya Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences (AACCE), honored the best in Spanish films of 2020 and took place at the Teatro del Soho CaixaBank in Málaga on 6 March 2021. The ceremony was televised in Spain by Televisión Española (TVE) and was directed and hosted by actor Antonio Banderas and journalist María Casado. It was also televised for the international public by the TVE Internacional channel. It was the second consecutive year that the ceremony was held in Málaga. It was also the third consecutive year that the ceremony took place in Andalusia.
Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the hosts, award presenters and music performers were present on-site, while the nominees appeared from remote locations.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on cinema, the eligibility criteria were modified to account for films that could not have a theatrical release and were released on streaming instead. Nominations were scheduled to be read in Madrid on 11 January 2021, but the announcement was postponed to January 18 due to the disruption caused by Storm Filomena. Nominations were read by actress and singer Ana Belén and actor and comedian Dani Rovira. Adú received the most nominations with thirteen, followed by Coven and Schoolgirls, with nine nominations a piece, and Rosa's Wedding, with eight nominations.
Schoolgirls won Best Film, as well as Best Original Screenplay, Best New Director, and Best Cinematography. Adú also won four awards, most notably Best Director and Best New Actor. Coven won the most awards, with five awards.

## Winners and nominees

Nominees are listed as follows. Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface.

### Major awards

| Best Film Schoolgirls Adú Ane Is Missing Rosa's Wedding The People Upstairs | Best Director Salvador Calvo – Adú Juanma Bajo Ulloa – Baby Icíar Bollaín – Rosa's Wedding Isabel Coixet – It Snows in Benidorm |
| Best Actor Mario Casas – Cross the Line Javier Cámara – The People Upstairs Ernesto Alterio – The Sea Beyond David Verdaguer – One for All | Best Actress Patricia López Arnaiz – Ane Is Missing Amaia Aberasturi – Coven Kiti Mánver – One Careful Owner Candela Peña – Rosa's Wedding |
| Best Supporting Actor Alberto San Juan – The People Upstairs Álvaro Cervantes – Adú Sergi López – Rosa's Wedding Juan Diego Botto – The Europeans | Best Supporting Actress Nathalie Poza – Rosa's Wedding Juana Acosta – One Careful Owner Verónica Echegui – My Heart Goes Boom! Natalia de Molina – Schoolgirls |
| Best New Actor Adam Nourou [es] – Adú Chema del Barco – The Plan Janick – Unfortunate Stories Fernando Valdivielso [es] – Cross the Line | Best New Actress Jone Laspiur [es] – Ane Is Missing Paula Usero – Rosa's Wedding Milena Smit – Cross the Line Griselda Siciliani – The People Upstairs |
| Best Original Screenplay Schoolgirls – Pilar Palomero Adú – Alejandro Hernández Unfortunate Stories – Claro García and Javier Fesser Rosa's Wedding – Alicia Luna and Icíar Bollaín | Best Adapted Screenplay Ane Is Missing – David Pérez Sañudo and Marina Parés Pulido The Europeans – Bernardo Sánchez and Marta Libertad Castillo Unknown Origins – David Galán Galindo [es] and Fernando Navarro The People Upstairs – Cesc Gay |
| Best Ibero-American Film Forgotten We'll Be • Colombia The Mole Agent • Chile La Llorona • Guatemala I'm No Longer Here • Mexico | Best European Film The Father Corpus Christi An Officer and a Spy Falling |
| Best New Director Pilar Palomero – Schoolgirls David Pérez Sañudo – Ane Is Missing Bernabé Rico – One Careful Owner Nuria Giménez Lorang – My Mexican Bretzel | Best Animated Film Turu, the Wacky Hen |

### Other award nominees

| Best Cinematography Schoolgirls – Daniela Cajías Adú – Sergi Vilanova Coven – Javier Agirre Black Beach – Ángel Amorós | Best Editing The Year of the Discovery – Sergio Jiménez Adú – Jaime Colis Black Beach – Fernando Franco and Miguel Doblado Schoolgirls – Sofi Escudé |
| Best Art Direction Coven – Mikel Serrano Adú – César Macarrón Black Beach – Montse Sanz Schoolgirls – Mónica Bernuy | Best Production Supervision Adú – Ana Parra and Luis Fernández Lago Coven – Guadalupe Balaguer Trelles Black Beach – Carmen Martínez Muñoz It Snows in Benidorm – Toni Novella |
| Best Sound Adú – Eduardo Esquide, Jamaica Ruíz García, Juan Ferro and Nicolas de Poulpiquet Coven – Urko Garai, Josefina Rodriguez, Frédéric Hamelin and Leandro de Loredo Black Beach – Coque Lahera, Nacho Royo-Villanova and Sergio Testón The Plan – Mar González, Francesco Lucarelli and Nacho Royo-Villanova | Best Special Effects Coven – Mariano García Marty and Ana Rubio Black Beach – Raúl Romanillos and Jean-Louis Billiard Unfortunate Stories – Raúl Romanillos and Míriam Piquer Unknown Origins – Lluis Rivera Jove and Helmuth Barnert |
| Best Costume Design Coven – Nerea Torrijos My Heart Goes Boom! – Cristina Rodríguez Schoolgirls – Arantxa Ezquerro The Europeans – Lena Mossum | Best Makeup and Hairstyles Coven – Beata Wotjowicz and Ricardo Molina Adú – Elena Cuevas, Mara Collazo and Sergio López My Heart Goes Boom! – Milu Cabrer and Benjamín Pérez Unknown Origins – Paula Cruz, Jesús Guerra and Nacho Díaz |
| Best Original Score Coven – Aránzazu Calleja and Maite Arroitajauregi Adú – Roque Baños Baby – Bingen Mendizábal and Koldo Uriarte The Summer We Lived – Federico Jusid | Best Original Song "Que no, que no" by María Rozalén – Rosa's Wedding "Sababoo" by Cherif Badua and Roque Baños – Adú "El verano que vivimos" by Alejandro Sanz and Alfonso Pérez Arias – The Summer We Lived "Lunas de papel" by Carlos Naya – Schoolgirls |
| Best Fictional Short Film A la cara 16 de decembro Beef Gastos incluidos Lo efímero | Best Animated Short Film Blue & Malone: Casos Imposibles Homeless Home Metamorphosis Vuela |
| Best Documentary Film The Year of the Discovery Anatomía de un dandy Drowning Letters My Mexican Bretzel | Best Documentary Short Film Biografía del cadáver de una mujer Paraíso Paraíso en llamas Sólo con peces |

### Honorary Goya

* Ángela Molina

### Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films with multiple nominations :
| Nominations | Film |
| 13 | Adú |
| 9 | Coven |
| 9 | Schoolgirls |
| 8 | Rosa's Wedding |
| 6 | Black Beach |
| 5 | Ane Is Missing |
| 5 | The People Upstairs |
| 3 | Cross the Line |
| 3 | My Heart Goes Boom! |
| 3 | One Careful Owner |
| 3 | The Europeans |
| 3 | Unfortunate Stories |
| 3 | Unknown Origins |
| 2 | Baby |
| 2 | El verano que vivimos |
| 2 | It Snows in Benidorm |
| 2 | My Mexican Bretzel |
| 2 | The Plan |
| 2 | The Year of the Discovery |
Films with multiple awards :
| Awards | Film |
| 5 | Coven |
| 4 | Adú |
| 4 | Schoolgirls |
| 3 | Ane Is Missing |
| 2 | Rosa's Wedding |
| 2 | The Year of the Discovery |

## Presenters and performers

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.

### Presenters

* Pedro Almodóvar – presented Best Costume Design
* Penélope Cruz – presented Best Makeup and Hairstyles
* Alejandro Amenábar – presented Best Sound
* Paz Vega – presented Best Special Effects
* J. A. Bayona – presented Best Production Supervision
* Belén Cuesta – presented Best New Actress
* Antonio de la Torre – presented Best New Actor
* María Barranco – presented Best New Director
* Najwa Nimri – presented Best Original Song
* Leonardo Sbaraglia – presented Best Original Score
* Carlos Areces – presented Best Fictional Short Film
* Julián López – presented Best Documentary Short Film
* Adrián Lastra – presented Best Animated Short Film
* Hiba Abouk – presented Best Cinematography
* Maggie Civantos – presented Best Editing
* Marta Etura – presented Best Art Direction
* Natalia Verbeke – presented Best Original Screenplay
* Tristán Ulloa – presented Best Adapted Screenplay
* Daniela Santiago – presented Best Documentary Film
* Jon Kortajarena – presented Best Animated Film
* Marta Nieto – presented Best Supporting Actress
* Antonio Velázquez – presented Best Supporting Actor
* Mónica Randall and Verónica Forqué – presented Best Spanish Language Foreign Film
* Elena Irureta and Pedro Casablanc – presented Best European Film
* Jaime Chávarri – presented the Honorary Goya Award to Ángela Molina
* Emma Suárez and Marisa Paredes – presented Best Actress
* Roberto Álamo and José Coronado – presented Best Actor
* Chus Gutiérrez and Gracia Querejeta – presented Best Director
* Ana María Ruiz (nurse) – presented Best Film

### Performers

| Artist | Featuring | Performed |
| Nathy Peluso | Orquesta Sinfónica de Málaga | "La Violetera" |
| Vanesa Martín | Orquesta Sinfónica de Málaga | "Una nube blanca" during the annual "In Memoriam" tribute |
| Diana Navarro | Carlos Latre Orquesta Sinfónica de Málaga | "Coplilla de las divisas" as part of a tribute to Luis García Berlanga |
| Aitana | Orquesta Sinfónica de Málaga | "Happy Days Are Here Again" |