Spanish Goya Awards Honor BLANCANIEVES, THE IMPOSSIBLE And Even JUAN OF THE DEAD
The Impossible may have broken every box office record imaginable in Spain, but the stylized, silent film retelling of Snow White, Blancanieves, wiped the floor with the competition at the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars. Pablo Berger's film walked away with ten awards, which seem well-deserved considering all the love the film has won from audiences and critics this past year. Those critics include our own Shelagh M. Rowan Legg, who called it, "a story dripping
in sensuous, gorgeous wonder." As you'll see below, most of the major categories went to either Berger's film or The Impossible, but the Spanish also showed some love for Juan of the Dead, giving it the prize for Best Ibero-American film.
Film
Blancanieves
Director
Juan Antonio Bayona for The Impossible
Actor
Jose Sacristan for The Dead Man and Being Happy
Actress
Maribel Verdu for Blancanieves
Original Screenplay
Pablo Berger for Blancanieves
Adapted Screenplay
Javier Barreira, Gorka Magallon, Ignacio del Moral, Jordi Gasull and Neil Landau for Tad, the Lost Explorer
Supporting Actor
Julian Villagran for Grupo 7
Supporting Actress
Candela Pena for Una Pistola en Cada Mano
Honorary Goya
Concha Velasco
Production Design
Sandra Hermida Muniz for The Impossible
Artistic Director
Alain Bainee For Blancanieves
Photography
Kiko de la Rica for Blancanieves
Special Effects
Pau Costa and Felix Berges for The Impossible
Wardrobe
Paco Delgado for Blancanieves
Editing
Bernat Vilaplano and Elena Ruiz for The Impossible
Sound
Peter Glossop, Marc Orts, Oriol Tarrago for The Impossible
Original Score
Alfonso Villalonga for Blancanieves
Original Song
No Te Puedo Encontrar from Blancanieves
New Actor
Joaquin Nunez for Grupo 7
Makeup and Hair
Sylvie Imbert and Fermin Galan for Blancanieves
New Actress
Macarena Garcia for Blancanieves
New Director
Enrique Gato for Tad, the Lost Explorer
Animated Feature Film
The Adventures of Tadeo Jones
Documentary Film
Sons of the Clouds, The Last Colony
European Film
Untouchable (France)
Ibero-American Film
Juan de los Muertos (Cuba)
Animated Short
Jaime Maestro for El Vendedor de Humo
Fiction Short
Esteban Crespo Garcia for Aquel no Era Yo
Documentary Short
Sergio Oksman for A Story for the Modlins
