17th Goya Awards

The award of the Spanish Goya Film Awards took place for the 17th time on February 1 2003. With eight nominations Fernando León de Aranoas Monday won in the sun in five of the 28 categories. The excellent example as best movie drama that had previously received four awards at the San Sebastian International Film Festival in the year, tells of unemployed shipyard workers. León de Aranoa had already won the Goya for Barrio and Familia. Further nominations for Best Movie went to Pedro Almodóvar for Talk to Her, Emilio Martínez Lázaro for Bedside Stories and Antonio Hernández for the afterlife of memory. The film by Almodovar, who was already award-winning international awards for his previous works and received for Talk to her two nominations at the Academy Awards in 2003, is about a nurse who is in love with a comatose ballet dancer. Almodóvar's entry was awarded the prize for the best film music with a Goya with seven nominations only.

Javier Bardem won for his portrayal of Santa in Mondays in the Sun for Best Actor, Mercedes Sampietro won for Places of comunes in the category of Best Actress. In the Supporting Actor categories were able to prevail in the afterlife of memory, Luis Tosar in Mondays in the Sun and the US-American Geraldine Chaplin. Roman Polanski's World War II drama The Pianist was awarded as Best European film. Diego El ultimo tren Arsuagas tragicomedy - The last train that tells the locomotive kidnapping a group of older Uruguayans ( among others played by Héctor Alterio ), won in the category Best Foreign Film in Spanish. The Honorary Goya went to the Spanish actor Manuel Alexandre, who has worked since the 1940s in the Spanish film and was known among other things, the Oscar -nominated Placido.

Winners and nominees

Best Picture

Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol ) - Director: Fernando León de Aranoa

Best Director

Fernando León de Aranoa - Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol )

Best New Director

Julio D. Wallovits and Roger Gual - Smoking room

Best Actor

Javier Bardem - Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol )

Best Actress

Mercedes Sampietro - Places of comunes

Best Supporting Actor

Luis Tosar - Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol )

Best Supporting Actress

Geraldine Chaplin - Beyond the Memories ( En la ciudad sin límites )

Best Young Actor

José Ángel Egido - Mondays in the Sun (Los lunes al sol )

Best Young Actress

Lolita Flores - Rencor

Best Original Screenplay

Enrique Braso and Antonio Hernández - Beyond the Memories ( En la ciudad sin límites )

Best Adapted Screenplay

Adolfo Aristarain, Lorenzo F. Aristarain and Kathy Saavedra - Places of comunes

Best Producer

Fernando Bovaira and Gustavo Ferrada - La caja 507

Best equipment

Salvador Parra - El embrujo de Shanghai

Best Camera

José Luis Alcaine - El caballero Don Quijote

Best Costumes

Best mask

Gregorio Ros Pepito Juez - El embrujo de Shanghai

Best Editing

Ángel Hernández Zoido - La caja 507

Best Sound

Pelayo Gutiérrez, Gilles ortion, Alfonso Pino, Ghislain Patrick and Alex F. Capilla - Bedside Stories ( El otro lado de la cama )

Best Special Effects

Juan Ramón Molina - 800 Balas

Best Original Song

Roque Baños - Salomé (Song Title: Sevillana para Carlos )

Best Original Score

Alberto Iglesias - Talk to Her ( Hable con ella )

Best Animated film

Dragon Hill - la colina del dragon - Director: Ángel Izquierdo

Best Documentary

El efecto Iguazú - Director: Pere Joan Ventura

Best Animated Short Film

Señor trapo - Director: Raúl Díez

Best Documentary Short Film

Tunel n ° 20 - Director: Ramón de Fontecha

Best Short Film

Nada que perder - Director: Rafa Russo

Best European film

The Pianist ( The Pianist ), UK / Poland - Directed by Roman Polanski

Best Foreign Film in Spanish

El ultimo tren - The last train (El último tren), Uruguay - Director: Diego Arsuaga

Honorary Goya

Manuel Alexandre, Spanish actor