21st Goya Awards

The 21 award of Goya, the most important Spanish film award, took place on 28 January 2007 at the Palacio Municipal de Congresos del Campo de las Naciones in Madrid.

The 14 - times nominated dramedy Back - Return of the prestigious and world-renowned filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar, whose films had already received Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and All About My Mother the trophy in the main category, won Best Picture, and in four other categories. Especially the excellent already at the Film Festival of Cannes, female cast of the film was taken into account; four actresses of the ensemble was honored with nominations for Best Actress Penelope Cruz and Carmen Maura as Best Supporting Actress finally able to prevail. Maura got it fourth Goya in her career. Was thirteen nominations also acted as a favorite of the fantasy film Pan's Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro, the Mexican with Ivana Baquero, Maribel Verdu and Sergi López in the lead roles. The film, which was nominated for the Academy Awards in 2007 as Best Foreign Language Film and in five other categories, won in seven (mostly technical ) categories and was the most successful work of 21 Goya Awards.

In announcing the nominations on 18 December 2006 Agustín Díaz Yanes ' Alatriste adventure film was with 15 nominations the most successful. The film adaptation of a novel series by Arturo Pérez-Reverte with the American Viggo Mortensen in the lead role, with a budget of 28 million U.S. dollars, the most expensive Spanish-language film. Alatriste could indeed make in the most important category for Best Picture hopes, but won in the end only three less important categories. The fourth work, which was indeed provided with the fewest nominations, but Best Picture film competed, was Manuel Puig Antich Salvador Huergas filming of life, Salvador. Main actor in the drama is nominated eleven times the German actor Daniel Brühl, who speaks Spanish fluently, since his mother is Catalan origin. But the film could only prevail in the Best Adapted Screenplay category.

While Stephen Frears ' biography of the British Queen, The Queen, was able to assert itself as Best European Film, Los manos won the Argentinian Alejandro Doria for Best Foreign Film in Spanish. The only winner was already in pre-production manager Tadeo Villalba fixed, among other things, at Ay Carmela this activity! - Song of Freedom exercised; He received the honorary Goya.

Winners and nominees

Best Picture

Back - Return ( Volver ) - Director: Pedro Almodóvar

Best Director

Pedro Almodóvar - Volver - Return ( Volver )

Best New Director

Daniel Sánchez Arévalo - Dark Blue Almost Black ( AzulOscuroCasiNegro )

Best Actor

Juan Diego - Vete de mí

Best Actress

Penelope Cruz - Volver - Return ( Volver )

Best Supporting Actor

Antonio de la Torre Martín - Dark Blue Almost Black ( AzulOscuroCasiNegro )

Best Supporting Actress

Carmen Maura - Volver - Return ( Volver )

Best Young Actor

Quim Gutiérrez - Dark Blue Almost Black ( AzulOscuroCasiNegro )

Best Young Actress

Ivana Baquero - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno )

Best Original Screenplay

Guillermo del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno )

Best Adapted Screenplay

Lluís Alcarazo - Salvador

Best Producer

Cristina Zumárraga - Alatriste

Best Camera

Guillermo Navarro - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno )

Best Editing

Bernat Villaplana - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno )

Best Art

Benjamín Fernández - Alatriste

Best Costumes

Francesca Sartori - Alatriste

Best mask

José Quetglas and Blanca Sánchez - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno )

Best Sound

Miguel Polo and Martín Hernández - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno )

Best Special Effects

David Martí, Montse Ribé Reys Abades, Everett Burrell, Edward Irastorza and Emilio Ruiz - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno )

Best Original Score

Alberto Iglesias - Volver - Return ( Volver )

Best Original Song

Bebe and Lucio Godoy - La educacion de las hadas ( song " Tiempo pequeño " )

Best Short Film

A ciegas - Director: Salvador Gómez Cuenca

Best Documentary

Cineastas en acción - Director: Carlos Benpar

Best Documentary Short Film

Best Animated film

Pérez, el de tus sueños ratoncito - Director: Juan Pablo Buscarini

Best Animated Short Film

El viaje de Said - Director: Coke Rioboo

Best European film

The Queen ( The Queen ), UK - Director: Stephen Frears

Best Foreign Film in Spanish

Las manos, Argentina - Director: Alejandro Doria

Honorary Goya

Tadeo Villalba, Production Manager