“Sirāt,” Oliver Laxe’s techo-sluiced Moroccan desert odyssey, swept the fortieth Spanish Academy Goya Awards in craft classes. A “brilliantly weird, cult-ready imaginative and prescient of human psychology examined to its limits,” stated Selection, ““Sirāt” is nominated for 2 Oscars and already received a Cannes Competition Jury Prize.
“Sirāt” received most awards at Saturday’s Goya Awards ceremony. Nevertheless, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s “Sundays,” a examine of failing household dynamics, stricken by intolerance, received the largest: finest image, director, actress (Patricia López Arnaíz) and authentic screenplay. “Sundays” received San Sebastian’s prime Golden Shell final September.
With Oscar voting in full swing, sound went to the Oscar-nominated all-female workforce of “Sirāt”: supervising sound editor Laia Casanovas, re-recording mixer Yasmina Praderas and manufacturing sound mixer Amanda Villavieja who spent 9 months on and off on the sound design course of.
The most important breakout of the evening, nevertheless, was “Deaf,” a Berlinale Panorama Viewers Award winner and portrait of the challenges going through the deaf, right here a mom, in a world the place they’re anticipated to listen to.
Barcelona shouldn’t be Berlin. It took simply 150 seconds of Saturday’s Goya Awards for co-host Luis Tosar, sporting a Palestine pin, to sentence “Gaza genocide” – with the viewers fairly properly unanimously bursting out in applause.
Susan Sarandon, winner of this 12 months’s Worldwide Goya of Honor, thanked Spanish President Pedro Sánchez and plenty of artists from Spain who “speak with such ethical lucidity.” “It helps me to really feel much less alone, half of a bigger group,” in a world dominated by “cruelty” and “violence,” she added.
“Dictators can govern nations by whims. That may be denying gender violence and local weather change, invading nations and deporting immigrants,” stated Joaquin Oristrell, a co-winner of tailored screenplay for “La Cena,” once more to raucous applause,
In her acceptance speech, Sarandon quoted American author Howard Zinn: “To be hopeful in dangerous occasions is not only foolishly romantic. It’s based mostly on the truth that human historical past is a historical past not solely of cruelty, but in addition of compassion, sacrifice, braveness, kindness.”
fortieth Spanish Academy Goya Awards, 2026
Finest Image
“Sundays,” Manu Calvo, Marisa Fernández Armenteros, Sandra Hermida, Nahikari Ipiña,
Director
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, “Sundays”
Actress
Patricia López Arnaíz
Actor
Jose Ramón Soroiz, “Maspalomas”
New Director
Eva Libertad, “Deaf”
Unique Screenplay
Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, “Sundays”
Tailored Screenplay
Joaquín Oristrell, Manuel Gómez Pereira, Yolanda García, “La Cena”
Artwork Route
Laia Ateca, “Sirāt”
New Director
Eva Libertad, “Deaf”
Supporting Actor
Álvaro Cervantes, “Deaf”
Supporting Actress
Nagore Aramburu, “Sundays”
New Actress
Miriam Garlo, “Deaf”
New Actor
Toni Fernández Gabarre, “Sleepless Metropolis”
Documentary Characteristic
Albert Serra, “Afternoons of Solitude”
Animated Characteristic
“Decorado,” Alberto Vazquez, Chelo Loureiro, Iván Mimabres, José María Fernández de Vega
Sound
Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas, Yasmina Praderas, “Sirāt”
Unique Music
Kangding Ray, “Sirāt”
Cinematography
Mauro Herce, “Sirāt”
Modifying
Cristóbal Fernández, “Sirāt”
Manufacturing Design
Oriol Maymó, “Sirāt”
Unique Track
Alba Flores, Sílvia Pérez Cruz, “Flowers for Antonio”
Particular Results
Paula Gallifa Rubia, Ana Rubio, “Los Tigres,”
Costume Design
Helena Sanchís, “La cena,”
Make-up & Hairstyling
Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver y Nacho Díaz, “The Captive”
Ibero-American Movie
“Belén,” Dolores Fonzi, Argentina
European Movie
Fiction Quick
“Angulo Muerto,” Cristian Beteta
Animated Quick
“Gilbert,” Jordi Jiménez, Arturo Lacal, Alex Salu
Documentary Shor
“El Santo,” Carlo D’Ursi.
Honorary Goya
Gonzalo Suárez
Worldwide Honorary Goya
Susan Sarandon
