# Goya Awards

The Goya Awards (Spanish: Premios Goya) are Spain's main national annual film awards. They are presented by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain.
The first ceremony was held in 1987, a year after the founding of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, at the Teatro Lope de Vega in Madrid. They have since been also held in other Spanish cities (Barcelona, Seville, Málaga, Valencia, Valladolid, and Granada).

## History

To reward the best Spanish films of each year, the Spanish Academy of Motion Pictures and Arts decided to create the Goya Awards. The Goya Awards are Spain's main national film awards, considered by many in Spain, and internationally, to be the Spanish equivalent of the American Academy Awards. The inaugural ceremony took place on March 17, 1987, at the Lope de Vega theatre in Madrid. From the 2nd edition until 1995, the awards were held at the Palacio de Congresos in the Paseo de la Castellana. Then they moved to the similarly named Palacio Municipal de Congresos, also in Madrid. In 2000, the ceremony took place in Barcelona, at the Barcelona Auditorium. In 2003, a large number of film professionals took advantage of the Goya awards ceremony to express their opposition to the Aznar's government support of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. In 2004, the AVT (an association against terrorism in Spain) demonstrated against terrorism and ETA, a paramilitary organization of Basque separatists, in front of the Lope de Vega theatre. In 2005, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero was the first prime minister in the history of Spain to attend the event. In 2013, the minister of culture and education José Ignacio Wert did not attend, saying he had “other things to do”. Some actors said that this decision reflected the government's lack of respect for their profession and industry. The 2019 and 2023 editions of the awards took place in Seville, and in 2020 and 2021 in Málaga.

## Trophy sculpture

The award itself is a small bronze bust of Francisco Goya created by the sculptor José Luis Fernández, although the original sculpture for the first edition of the Goyas was by Miguel Ortiz Berrocal. The trophy sculpture is informally known as cabezón (plural: cabezones), 'bighead'.

## Awards

The awards are currently delivered in 28 categories, excluding the Honorary Goya Award and the International Goya Award, with an increase of up to five nominees per category established for the upcoming 37th edition. There was a maximum of four candidates for each from the 13th Edition (having been three candidates in the first edition, five in the 2nd and 3rd edition and three from the fourth to the twelfth edition) to the 36th edition.
* Best Film
* Best Director
* Best Leading Actor
* Best Leading Actress
* Best Original Screenplay
* Best Adapted Screenplay
* Best New Director
* Best Supporting Actor
* Best Supporting Actress
* Best New Actor
* Best New Actress
* Best Production Supervision
* Best Cinematography
* Best Editing
* Best Original Score
* Best Original Song
* Best Art Direction
* Best Costume Design
* Best Makeup and Hairstyles
* Best Sound
* Best Special Effects
* Best Animated Film
* Best Animated Short Film
* Best Documentary Short Film
* Best Fictional Short Film
* Best European Film
* Best Documentary
* Best Ibero-American Film
* Honorary Goya Award
* International Goya Award

## Award ceremonies

The following is a listing of all Goya Awards ceremonies since 1986.
| Ceremony | Date | Best Picture winner | Host(s) | Venue |
| 1st | 17 March 1987 | Voyage to Nowhere | Fernando Rey | Teatro Lope de Vega, Madrid |
| 2nd | 22 March 1988 | El bosque animado | Fernando Rey | Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 3rd | 21 March 1989 | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Verónica Forqué, Antonio Resines | Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 4th | 10 March 1990 | Twisted Obsession | Carmen Maura, Andrés Pajares | Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 5th | 16 February 1991 | ¡Ay Carmela! | Lydia Bosch, Jorge Sanz | Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 6th | 7 March 1992 | Lovers | Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, José Coronado | Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 7th | 13 March 1993 | Belle Époque | Imanol Arias | Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 8th | 21 January 1994 | Todos a la cárcel | Rosa María Sardà | Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 9th | 21 January 1995 | Running Out of Time | Imanol Arias | Palacio de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 10th | 25 January 1996 | Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead | Verónica Forqué, Javier Gurruchaga | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 11th | 25 January 1997 | Thesis | Carmen Maura, Juanjo Puigcorbé | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 12th | 31 January 1998 | Lucky Star | El Gran Wyoming | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 13th | 23 January 1999 | The Girl of Your Dreams | Rosa María Sardà | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 14th | 29 January 2000 | All About My Mother | Antonia San Juan | L'Auditori, Barcelona |
| 15th | 3 February 2001 | El Bola | María Barranco, José Coronado, Loles León, Imanol Arias, Concha Velasco, Pablo Carbonell [es] | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 16th | 2 February 2002 | The Others | Rosa María Sardà | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 17th | 1 February 2003 | Mondays in the Sun | Alberto San Juan, Guillermo Toledo | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 18th | 31 January 2004 | Take My Eyes | Cayetana Guillén Cuervo, Diego Luna | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 19th | 30 January 2005 | The Sea Inside | Antonio Resines, Maribel Verdú, Montserrat Caballé | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 20th | 29 January 2006 | The Secret Life of Words | Concha Velasco, Antonio Resines | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 21st | 28 January 2007 | Volver | José Corbacho | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 22nd | 3 February 2008 | Solitary Fragments | José Corbacho | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 23rd | 1 February 2009 | Camino | Carmen Machi, Muchachada Nui | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 24th | 14 February 2010 | Cell 211 | Andreu Buenafuente | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 25th | 13 February 2011 | Black Bread | Andreu Buenafuente | Teatro Real, Madrid |
| 26th | 19 February 2012 | No Rest for the Wicked | Eva Hache | Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid, Madrid |
| 27th | 17 February 2013 | Blancanieves | Eva Hache | Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid |
| 28th | 9 February 2014 | Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed | Manel Fuentes [es] | Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid |
| 29th | 7 February 2015 | Marshland | Dani Rovira | Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid |
| 30th | 6 February 2016 | Truman | Dani Rovira | Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid |
| 31st | 4 February 2017 | The Fury of a Patient Man | Dani Rovira | Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid |
| 32nd | 3 February 2018 | The Bookshop | Joaquín Reyes, Ernesto Sevilla | Madrid Marriott Auditorium Hotel, Madrid |
| 33rd | 2 February 2019 | Champions | Silvia Abril, Andreu Buenafuente | Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones FIBES Sevilla, Seville |
| 34th | 25 January 2020 | Pain and Glory | Silvia Abril, Andreu Buenafuente | Palacio de Deportes José María Martín Carpena, Málaga |
| 35th | 6 March 2021 | Schoolgirls | Antonio Banderas, María Casado | Teatro del Soho CaixaBank [es], Málaga |
| 36th | 12 February 2022 | The Good Boss | No host (collective) | Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, Valencia |
| 37th | 11 February 2023 | The Beasts | Antonio de la Torre, Clara Lago | Palacio de Congresos y Exposiciones FIBES Sevilla, Seville |
| 38th | 10 February 2024 | Society of the Snow | Ana Belén, Javier Ambrossi, Javier Calvo | Feria de Valladolid [es], Valladolid |
| 39th | 8 February 2025 | The 47Undercover | Maribel Verdú, Leonor Watling | Palacio de Exposiciones y Congresos de Granada [es], Granada |

## Trivia
### "Big Five" winners and nominees
#### Winners

The following is a list of films that won the awards for Best Film, Director, Actor, Actress and Screenplay (original or adapted).
* ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990): Director (Carlos Saura), adapted screenplay (Rafael Azcona and Carlos Saura), Actor (Andrés Pajares) and Actress (Carmen Maura).
* Take My Eyes (2003): Director (Icíar Bollaín), original screenplay (Icíar Bollaín), Actor (Luis Tosar) and Actress (Laia Marull).
* The Sea Inside (2004): Director (Alejandro Amenábar), original screenplay (Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil), Actor (Javier Bardem) and Actress (Lola Dueñas).

#### Nominees

Four awards won
* Belle Époque (1992): won Film, Director (Fernando Trueba), original screenplay (Rafael Azcona, José Luis García Sánchez and Fernando Trueba) and Actress (Ariadna Gil); lost Actor (Jorge Sanz).
* Running Out of Time (1994): won Film, Director (Imanol Uribe), adapted screenplay (Imanol Uribe) and Actor (Carmelo Gómez); lost Actress (Ruth Gabriel).
* Lucky Star (1997): won Film, Director (Ricardo Franco), original screenplay (Ricardo Franco and Ángeles González-Sinde) and Actor (Antonio Resines); lost Actress (Maribel Verdú).
* Pain and Glory (2019): won Film, Director (Pedro Almodóvar), original screenplay (Pedro Almodóvar) and Actor (Antonio Banderas); lost Actress (Penélope Cruz).
* The Beasts (2022): won Film, Director (Rodrigo Sorogoyen), Original Screenplay (Isabel Peña and Rodrigo Sorogoyen), Actor (Denis Ménochet); lost Actress (Marina Foïs).
Three awards won
* Blancanieves (2012): won Film, Actress (Maribel Verdú) and original screenplay (Pablo Berger); lost Director (Pablo Berger) and Actor (Daniel Giménez Cacho).
Two awards won
* Lovers (1991): won Film and Director (Vicente Aranda); lost original screenplay (Álvaro del Amo, Carlos Pérez Merinero and Vicente Aranda), Actor (Jorge Sanz), Actress (Victoria Abril and Maribel Verdú).
* The Girl of Your Dreams (1998): won Film and Actress (Penélope Cruz); lost Director (Fernando Trueba), original screenplay (Rafael Azcona, David Trueba, Carlos López and Miguel Ángel Egea) and Actor (Antonio Resines).
One award won
* Pan's Labyrinth (2006): won original screenplay (Guillermo del Toro); lost Film, Director (Guillermo del Toro), Actor (Sergi López) and Actress (Maribel Verdú).
* The Skin I Live In (2011): won Actress (Elena Anaya); lost Film, Director (Pedro Almodóvar), original screenplay (Pedro Almodóvar) and Actor (Antonio Banderas).
* Magical Girl (2014): won Actress (Bárbara Lennie); lost Film, Director (Carlos Vermut), original screenplay (Carlos Vermut) and Actor (Luis Bermejo)
* The Endless Trench (2019): won Actress (Belén Cuesta); lost Film, Director (Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and José Mari Goenaga), original screenplay (José Mari Goenaga and Luiso Berdejo) and Actor (Antonio de la Torre)
No award won
* Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990): lost Film, Director (Pedro Almodóvar), original screenplay (Pedro Almodóvar), Actor (Antonio Banderas) and Actress (Victoria Abril).
* The Artist and the Model (2012): lost Film, Director (Fernando Trueba), original screenplay (Fernando Trueba and Jean-Claude Carrière), Actor (Jean Rochefort) and Actress (Aida Folch).
* The Bride (2015): lost Film, Director (Paula Ortiz), adapted screenplay (Javier García and Paula Ortiz), Actor (Asier Etxeandia) and Actress (Inma Cuesta)

## Multiple wins

The following is a list of films with six or more awards.

## Multiple nominations

The following is a list of films with ten or more nominations.