The Girls Wins Best Film at Goya Awards

Pilar Palomero’s The Girls has won Best Film at Spain’s 35th Goya Awards. The film also picked up awards for Best New Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Cinematography. Elsewhere, Salvador Calvo won Best Director for Adú, while Mario Casas won Best Actor for Cross the Line and Patricia López Arnaíz took out Best Actress for Ane is Missing. Winners in bold below.

Best Film
Adú
Ane Is Missing 
La boda de Rosa
The Girls
The People Upstairs 

Best Director 
Salvador Calvo for Adú
Juanma Bajo Ulloa for Bafrom
Icíar Bollain for La boda de Rosa
Isabel Coixet for It Snows in Benidorm

Best New Director
Pilar Palomero for The Girls
David Pérez Sañudo for Ane Is Missing
Bernabé Rico for One Careful Owner
Nuria Giménez Lorang for My Mexican Bretzel

Best Actress 
Amaia Aberasturi for Coven
Andrea Fandós for The Girls
Patricia López Arnaiz for Ane is Missing
Candela Peña for La boda de Rosa

Best Actor
Mario Casas for Cross the Line
Javier Cámara for The People Upstairs
Ernesto Alterio for A Normal World
David Verdaguer for One for All

Best Supporting Actress
Juana Acosta for El inconvenient
Verónica Echegui for My Heart Goes Boom!
Natalia de Molina for The Girls
Nathalie Poza for La boda de Rosa

Best Supporting Actor 
Sergi López for La boda de Rosa
Juan Diego Botto for The Europeans
Alberto San Juan for The People Upstairs
Álvaro Cervantes for Adú

Best Actress Newcomer 
Jone Laspiur for Ane is Missing
Paula Usero for La boda de Rosa
Milena Smith for Cross the Line
Griselda Siciliani for The People Upstairs

Best Actor Newcomer 
Adam Nourou for Adú
Chema del Barco for The Plan
Janick for Historias lamentables
Fernando Valdivielso for Cross the Line

Best Original Screenplay
Adu
La boda de Rosa
Historias lamentables
The Girls

Best Adapted Screenplay
The People Upstairs
Ane is Missing
The Europeans
Unknown Origins

Best Animated Film
Turu, the Wacky Hen

Best Documentary 
Anatomía de un dandy
Drowning Letters
The Year of the Discovery
My Mexican Bretzel

Best European Film
Corpus Christi from Poland
The Father from the United Kingdom
An Officer and A Spy from France
Falling from the United Kingdom

Best Ibero-American Film 
El agente topo from Chile
El olvido que seremos from Colombia
La llorona from Guatemala
Ya no estoy aquí from México

Best Cinematography
Adú
Coven
Black Beach
The Girls

Best Production Design 
Adú
Coven
Black Beach
It Snows in Benidorm

Best Original Music 
Adú
Coven
Baby
El verano que vivimos

Best Original Song
Adú
El verano que vivimos
La boda de Rosa
The Girls

Best Editing 
Adú
Black Beach
The Year of the Discovery
The Girls

Best Sound 
Adú
Coven
Black Beach
The Plan

Best Art Direction
Adú
Coven
Black Beach
The Girls

Best Costume Design 
Coven
My Heart Goes Boom! 
The Girls
The Europeans

Best Makeup and Hairdressing
Adú
Coven
My Heart Goes Boom!
Unknown Origins

Best Special Effects 
Coven
Adú
Black Beach

Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.