“Puan” could not win a Goya, the “Spanish Oscars” where other Argentinians have won

This Saturday in Valladolid, Spanish cinema was at its best Goya Awards to a big gala, and Among the winners were several Argentinians.

On the one hand, in the race for the Ibero-American film of the year, Puan by María Alché and Benjamín Naishat was nominated, but the Chilean film won Infinite memory.

The hit movie The snow societyby Juan Antonio Bayona, won the prizes and surpassed his main rival, 20,000 species of beesby Estíbaliz Urresola, who led the nominations with 15 candidates.

The great American actress attended the gala Sigourney Weaver, who traveled especially to welcome an honorary Goya in person. He gave a long and emotional speech in which he also thanked the Spaniard who has dubbed her voice for 30 years.

The awards were presented by director Pedro Almodóvar, actress Penélope Cruz and actors Gael García Bernal and José Sacristán.

At the beginning of the ceremony Amaia and David Bisbal sang, surprising with a version of My big night by Raphael. Subsequently, Niña Pastori, India Martínez and María José Llergo performed María Jiménez’s anthem, It’s over.

More prizes for the Argentinians

Matías Recalt the Goya won best new actor for his role in The snow society.

The Argentine actor plays Roberto Canessa, one of the survivors of the 1972 plane crash in the Andes that Bayona recounts in the film and one of those who undertook the 10-day journey across the mountain range to seek help.

Another Argentine Giulio Suarez was awarded the Goya best costume for his work in The snow society.

He created this work between Buenos Aires and Barcelona; He has used more than 4,000 items of clothing and even hand-knitted some sweaters.

Due to environmental conditions and the use of stunt doubles for the actors, “some costumes were duplicated up to seven times”, and he even had to enlarge the clothes so that the performers would, over time, look “thin”. “, she said…

The shoes brought him quite a few problems, as he explained. “The cold deteriorated the leather. They wore moccasins and lace-ups, the soles were slippery and after three days they were destroyed, the snow took them off.”

The great duel

20,000 species of bees it arrived at the Goya with the award of the Silver Bear of the Berlin Film Festival for best interpretation to the child actress Sofía Otero. However, he lost due to the storm of prizes won. The snow societywhich aspired to success at the Goyas before arriving at the Oscars, where it was nominated for best foreign film and best make-up and hairstyle.

The film tells the true story of some young Uruguayan rugby players whose plane crashed in the Andes in 1972 and who survived, after being presumed dead, more than two months of hunger and cold in the mountain range.

In the first two hours of the event, the Goya was awarded for Best Editing, Cinematography, Art Direction, Production Direction, Original Music, Sound, Costume Design, Special Effects, Breakthrough Actor, Makeup and Hair Styling.

Dispute

A fact about this episode is that it was the first time in the history of the Goya, which began in 1987, in which there were nominate more women than menin a ratio of 60 to 40.

Furthermore, this edition had as its implicit protagonist the sexual abuse and recent complaints against two Spanish directorsCarlos Vermut and Armando Ravelo.

“This is a very sensitive sector with what happens in society, we are nourished by what happens in society”, and the issue of sexual abuse “will be present” at the gala, the presenter anticipated on the red carpet of the ceremony, Anna Belen.

Sigourney Weaver also spoke about the issue in her talk on Friday, where she said that women reporting these situations makes “working in this industry safer for everyone.”

The complaints led the Ministry to announce the creation of an assistance unit for victims of these crimes and the Ministry of Equal Opportunities to prepare a report that serves as an x-ray of sexual violence in cinema.

While the stars of the gala walked the red carpet, hundreds of farmers demonstrated in front of the Valladolid Fair, where the prizes are awarded, taking advantage of the media attention.