35th Goya Awards

35th Goya Awards
Date	6 March 2021
Site	Teatro del Soho CaixaBank [es], Málaga
Hosted by	Antonio Banderas María Casado
Highlights
Best Film	Schoolgirls
Best Actor	Mario Casas Cross the Line
Best Actress	Patricia López Arnaiz Ane Is Missing
Most awards	Coven (5)
Most nominations	Adú (13)
Television coverage
Network	TVE

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.^[1][2] The ceremony was televised in Spain by Televisión Española (TVE) and was directed and hosted by actor Antonio Banderas and journalist María Casado.^[1] 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.^[3]

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.^[4] 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.^[5] 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.^[6][7][8]

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.^[9]

Winners and nominees

Nominees are listed as follows.^[6] 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^[10]

Films with multiple nominations and awards

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

Films with multiple awards Awards Film 5 Coven 4 Adú Schoolgirls 3 Ane Is Missing 2 Rosa's Wedding 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[11]	Orquesta Sinfónica de Málaga	"La Violetera"
Vanesa Martín		"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"

References

1. "Antonio Banderas y María Casado dirigirán y presentarán la próxima gala de los Goya". El País (in Spanish). 1 July 2020. Retrieved 1 July 2020.
2. "Los Goya se entregarán en Málaga el 6 de marzo, una semana después de lo previsto". RTVE (in Spanish). 14 September 2020. Retrieved 12 September 2020.
3. "Los Goya 2021 se entregarán de manera telemática y la gala será un espectáculo televisivo". RTVE (in Spanish). 2 February 2021. Retrieved 2 February 2021.
4. "Los Goya 2021 permitirán competir excepcionalmente a los estrenos online" (in Spanish). Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences.
5. "Nueva fecha lectura de nominados de los 35 Premios Goya" (in Spanish). Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences. 11 January 2021.
6. Blanes, Pepa; Romero, José M. (18 January 2021). "'Las niñas', 'La boda de Rosa' y 'Adú', grandes favoritas para los premios Goya". Cadena SER. Archived from the original on 7 June 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
7. Belinchón, Gregorio (18 January 2021). "'Adú', 'Akelarre' y 'Las niñas' lideran las nominaciones a los Goya 2021". El País. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
8. ""Adú", de Salvador Calvo, lidera con 13 nominaciones la quiniela de los Goya". eldiario.es. 18 January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
9. "Premios Goya 2021: consulta aquí la lista completa de ganadores". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 March 2021.
10. "Ángela Molina, Goya de Honor 2021" (in Spanish). Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences. 30 November 2020.
11. "AITANA EN LOS GOYA 2021: CANCIÓN ELEGIDA Y OTROS ELEMENTOS DE SU PASO POR LOS PREMIOS" (in European Spanish). Los 40. 4 March 2021. Retrieved 4 March 2021.

External links

• Official site Archived 25 January 2011 at the Wayback Machine