The nominees for the Spanish Goya Awards 2013

Today, January 8^th were announced the nominees for the 2013 Goya Awards of the Spanish Film Academy. In this 27th edition of the Goya Awards, the films with most nominations, and competing for the Goya for best picture are "Snow White" by Pablo Berger with 18 nominations, "Group 7" by Alberto Rodriguez with 16 nominations, "The Impossible" by Juan Antonio Bayona with 14 nominations and "The Artist and the Model" by Fernando Trueba with 13 nominations, being these directors also nominated in the category of the Goya for Best Director. 

As for the nominations of the actors, in the category of Best Actress are nominated Naomi Watts for "Impossible", Penelope Cruz for "Volver a Nacer", Maribel Verdú for "Snow White” and Aida Folch for" The Artist and the Model ". In the category of Best Actor the nominees are Daniel Jiménez Cacho for "Snow White", Antonio de la Torre for "Group 7”, Jose Sacristan for" The Dead Man and Being Happy " and Jean Rochefort for " The Artist and the Model ". 

Below the full list of nominees for the Goya 2013:

Best Director: Paul Berger, Fernando Trueba, Alberto Rodriguez and J.A. Bayona.

Best Picture: The Impossible, The Artist and the Model, Snow White and Group 7.

Best Leading Actor: Daniel Jiménez Cacho, Jean Rochefort, Jose Sacristan and Antonio de la Torre.

Best Actress: Maribel Verdú, Aida Folch, Naomi Watts and Penelope Cruz.

Best Supporting Actress: Angela Molina, María León, Chus Lampreave and Candela Peña .

Best Supporting Actor: José María Pou, Juan Villagran, Antonio de la Torre, Ewan McGregor.

Best Original Screenplay: Snow White, The Artist and Model, Group 7, the Impossible.

Best New Director: Paco León, Oriol Paulo, Isabel O Campo and Enrique Gato. Best Sound Mixing: "The artist and model ',' Group 7 ',' Invader ',' The Impossible '.

Best Newcomer actor: Emilio Gavira, Joaquin Nunez, Tom Holand and Alex Monner.

Best Newcomer Actress: Macarena García, Carmina Barrio, Kati Solibellas and Estefanía Santos..

Best Editing: Snow White, The Artist and Model, Group 7, Invader, The impossible.

Best Art Direction: Snow White, The Artist and Model, Group Seven, The impossible.

Best documentary: 'Contra el Tiempo, 'Children of the clouds, the last colony', 'subtle worlds', 'Map'.

Best European film: Rust and Bone, In the House, Untouchable and Shame.

Best Iberoamerican Film: 7 boxes, After Lucia, clandestine Childhood and Juan of the Dead.

Best original music: Snow White, Group 7, The Adventures of Tadeo Jones and The Impossible

Best Original Song: Snow White, Els Nens Salvatges, La Banda Picasso and The Adventures of Tadeo Jones.

Best Animation movie: El Corazón del roble,  The adventures of Tadeo Jones, O Apóstolo and The wish fish.

Best Cinematography: Snow White, The Artist and Model, Group Seven, The impossible.

Best Art Direction: Snow White, The Artist and Model, Group 7 and The Impossible.

Best short fiction: That was not me, The Wedding, Ojos que no Ven and Voice Over.

Best Documentary Short: A Story for the Modlins, Austwitch Fiddler, The Widows of Ifni and A Filmmaker in a quail.

Best animated short: Alfred and Anna, Humor seller, Nefertiti's hand and Why the dinosaurs disappeared.

San Sebastián Film Festival 2012

On September 29 ended the San Sebastian Film Festival, Donostia Zinemaldia 2012, leaving behind hundreds of film screenings and cinematographic festivities. The closing ceremony took place at the Kursaal congress center this Saturday.
The Golden Shell for Best Film went to the French film "Dans la Maison" by François Ozon, while the Spanish production silent film "Snow White" by Pablo Berger won the Special Jury Prize.
The Silver Shell for Best Director went to Fernando Trueba for his latest film "The Artist and the Model", while the best actors awards were distributed as follows: The Silver Shell for Best Actress was awarded ex-aequo to the Spanish Macarena Gomez for "Snow White" and the French actress Katie Coseni  for "Foxfire", while the Silver Shell for Best Actor went to Jose Sacristan for his role in “El Muerto y Ser Feliz”.

The Jury Prize for Best Cinematography was given to Touraj Aslani for "Fasle Kargadan / Rhino Season" while the Jury Award for Best Screenplay was also handed to François Ozon for "Dans la Maison".

"The Attack" by Ziad Doueiri received a Special Jury Mention.
The director to receive the KUTZA award for new directors this year was Fernando Guzzoni for "Dog Meat" while the jury decided to award two honorable mentions, one to the Iranian Majid Barzeger for "Parviz" and another to Adrian Saba for "The Cleaner" . The Horizontes Award aimed at Latin American films went to "The Last Elvis" by Armando Bo, receiving mentions the Brazilian film "Era Uma Vez Eu, Veronica" by Marcelo Gomes and the Mexican-French "After Lucía" by Michel Franco .

The film to win the Audience's Award was "The Sessions" of American director Ben Lewin. The audience's favorite European film was "The Angels' Share" by Ken Loach.

The Donostia Awards this year were altogether five and they were given to actors and filmmakers who assisted the festival to promote their new films, a trick that the Festival of San Sebastian used intelligently in their favor to keep funding the event this year. The 60th Anniversary Special Donostia Prizes were given to the filmmaker Oliver Stone and the actor Dustin Hoffman, while the rest of the Donostia Awards 2012 went to Ewan McGregor, Tommy Lee Jones and John Travolta.

Málaga Spanish Film Festival 2012

The past month of April took place the 15th edition of the Málaga Spanish Film Festival. This year the festival exhibited 157 films in 225 screenings including Spanish and Latin American cinema, and reached the number of 62.000 spectators.

Patricia Ferreira with her young actors

The peculiarity at this year's Málaga Festival has been the large increase in the box-office incomes, almost 22% biger than the last year.

What comes to the Festival awards, this year's jury, compund by Gonzalo Suárez, as president, Raúl Arévalo, Enrique Brinkmann, Inma Cuesta, Isona Passola, Goya Toledo and Iván Trujillo, decided to hand the Golden Biznaga Prize to the Catalan movie "The Wild Children" ("Els Nens Salvatges") by Patricia Ferreira. The Special Jury Prize went to "Carmina o Revienta"by Paco León.

 

Antonio Dechent

The lead actors' awards were granted to Carmina Barrios for "Carmina o Revienta" and to Antonio Dechent for "Cold Call" ("A Puerta Fría"), whereas Aina Clotet and Álex Monner together with Álvaro Cervantes received the Biznaga for the supporting actors' roles.

The Best Director's Award went for Imanol Uribe for "Orange Honey".

Below the list of all the awarded:

 

OFFICIAL SELECTION:

GOLDEN BIZNAGA TO THE BEST FILM
"Els nens salvatges" by Patricia Ferreira

SILVERED BIZNAGA SPECIAL JURY PRIZE 

"2Carmina o revienta" by Paco León

SPECIAL MENTION
Kanimambo, by Abdelatif Hwidar, Carla Subirana and Adán Aliaga

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR
Imanol Uribe, for Miel de naranjas

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST ACTRESS
Carmina Barrios, for Carmina o revienta

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST ACTOR
Antonio Dechent, for A puerta fría

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Aina Clotet, for Els nens salvatges

SPECIAL MENTION
Ángela Molina, for Miel de naranjas

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Ex aquo to Álex Monner, for Els nens salvatges and Álvaro Cervantes, for El sexo de los ángeles

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST SCRIPT
Patricia Ferreira and Virginia Yagüe, for Els nens salvatges

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST MUSICAL SCORE
Aziza Brahim, for Wilaya

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST PHOTOGRAPHY ‘PREMIO DELUXE’
Sergi Gallardo, for El sexo de los ángeles

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST EDITING
Koldo Idigoras, for The Pelayos

SILVERED BIZNAGA ‘PREMIO ALMA’ FOR THE BEST NEWCOMER SCRIPTWRITER
Remedios Crespo, for Miel de naranjas

SILVERED BIZNAGA CRITICS' PRIZE ‘FNAC’
A puerta fría, by Xavi Puebla

SILVERED BIZNAGA AUDIENCE'S PRIZE 

Carmina o revienta, by Paco León
 

SPECIAL YOUTH JURY PRIZE TO THE BEST PICTURE
Memoria de mis putas tristes, by Henning Carlsen


OTHER PRIZES:

PREMIO ‘SIGNIS’
Buscando a Eimish, by Ana Rodríguez Rosell

and a Special Mention to "A puerta fría", by Xavi Puebla

ASECAN PRIZE FOR ‘ÓPERA PRIMA’
Ali, by Paco R. Baños


OFFICIAL DOCUMENTARY SELECCION:

Jury: Manuel Jiménez Núñez, Andrés Duque and Tania Balló

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST DOCUMENTARY
Yatasto, by Hermes Paralluelo

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE SECOND BEST DOCUMENTARY
Otra noche en la tierra, by David Muñoz López

SILVERED BIZNAGA SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
El foso, by Ricardo Íscar

SPECIAL MENTION
Sibila, by Teresa Arredondo

SILVERED BIZNAGA AUDIENCE'S PRIZE
Uma longa viagem (Un largo viaje), by Lucía Murat


ZONAZINE:

Jury: Pablo Cantos, Norma Ruiz y Mª Pilar Yébenes

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST FILM
12 + 1. Una comedia metafísica, by Chiqui Carabante

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR
Chiqui Carabante, for 12 + 1. Una comedia metafísica

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST NEWCOMER'S SCRIPT

Roberto Pérez Toledo and Peter Andermatt, for Seis puntos sobre Emma

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST ACTOR
Alfonso Sánchez, for El mundo es nuestro

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST ACTRESS
Verónica Echegui, for Seis puntos sobre Emma

SILVERED BIZNAGA AUDIENCE'S PRIZE
El mundo es nuestro, by Alfonso Sánchez


OFFICIAL SHORTFILM SELECTION:

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST SHORT FILM
Aquel no era yo, by Esteban Crespo

SILVERED BIZNAGA SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
Anacos (Pedazos), by Xacio Baño

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST ACTOR
Gustavo Salmerón, for Aquel no era yo

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST ACTRESS
Petra Martínez, for Libre directo
 

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR
Esteban Crespo, for Aquel no era yo


OFFICIAL ANIMATION SHORTFILM SELECTION: ANIMAZINE
 

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST ANIMATION SHORT FILM
Fuga, by Juan Antonio Espigares

SPECIAL MENTIONS
Bendito Machine IV, by Jossie Malis
O sapateiro (El zapatero), by David Doutel and Vasco Sá


TERRITORIO LATINOAMERICANO:
 

Jury: Elisenda Nadal, Orlando Mora and Manane Rodríguez

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST FILM
Silencio en el paraíso, by Colbert García

SILVERED BIZNAGA SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
Juntos para siempre, by Pablo Solarz
 

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST DIRECTOR
Colbert García, for Silencio en el paraíso
 

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST ACTRESS
Dolores Fonzi, for El campo

SILVERED BIZNAGA FOR THE BEST ACTOR
Peto Menahem, for Juntos para siempre


VIDEO CREATION:

Jury: Ana Ruiz, Cristina Peláez and Mario Virgilio Montañez

BEST FICTION PRODUCTION
Reflejos, by Juan López Salvatierra

BEST ANIMATION PRODUCTION
Eros y Psique, by Luis Miguel Aguilera

BEST DIRECTOR
Emilio J. López, for Refugio

SPECIAL MENTION
Fernando Castillo, for Una tarde en Dino’s

Sigourney Weaver, Bruce Willis and Henry Cavill release their Madrid Thriller

The action thriller "The Cold Light of Day" starring Bruce Willis, Sigourney Weaver and Henry Cavill was released last week in Spain. 

The film which is shot almost entirely in Spain under the direction of the French Argelian- born Mabrouk El Mechri tells the story of Will Shaw (Henry Cavill), a young american whose family is kidnapped on a vacation in Spain. Will has only a few hours to find his family and save the lives of his loved ones, but while trying to do it, he finds himself in middle of a governmental conspiracy and discovers his father had a an obscure secret.

This action thriller has a classical starting point with a disappearance of characters followed by search and persecutions with a conspiration as a backround curtain.

Many of the action sequences are Madrid based and, although well shot, seem to follow the tendency of the Hollywood cinema to repeat the typical Spanish topics that are totally invented and ridiculous which actually have nothing to do with Spain.

The film produced by Intrepid Pictures, Film Rites, Fria Luz Del Dia, A.I.E., Galavis Film, Picture Machine and Summit Entertainment will be released in the US in September 2012.

Sylvester Stallone will star the adaptacion of "NO REST FOR THE WICKED"

The actor and producer Sylvester Stallone has announced to the Canadian magazine MacLeans that he will do the lead role in an American adaptation of "No Rest For The Wicked" by Enrique Urbizu. Stallone reveals this project when asked about the villain roles he has done in his acting career, and  replies that the adaptation of the Spanish movie (No Rest for the Wicked) is in process and that he will perform the starring role.

According to Stallone, Urbizu 's film is "hard-core", like "Bad Lieutenant". In fact Stallone says they are calling the adaptation "Badder Lieutenant."

It will be very interesting to see the adaptation of "No Rest for the Wicked", film that has given so much to talk in Spain and won just as many as six Goya awards. Surely one might think it could be difficult to repeat in an adaptation the effective subtleness achieved by Enrique Urbizu at the helm of the original "No Rest For the Wicked", as the truth is that the Urbizu's film is especially authentic, which is sometimes difficult to translate in an adaptation. The virtue of the original "No Rest for The Wicked" may lie in its way to create tension quietly and without excess of action, occurring the events of the movie at the right moments and in the right intensity. It will be interesting to see how the North American adaptation translates this expertise by Urbizu. Will the adaptation miss the authenticity of the Urbizu version? It will be seen.

Anyway, this adaptation is good news for Enrique Urbizu and Spanish cinema in general. Hopefully the original film also gains international audience thanks to the interest of Hollywood, which would be well deserved for a great Spanish director such as Enrique Urbizu. "No Rest For The Wicked" is probably one of the best Spanish films in recent years.

Stallone in 1983

When talking about other projects, Sylvester Stallone also revealed he is working on a new and final sequel to Rambo, which would be the ultimate end of this mythical personage, who would die in his latest adventure in Mexico. Stallone says he would love to shoot this last sequel of Rambo.

He also talks about the latest sequel of Rocky, that was released several years ago under the title of "Rocky Balboa", in which the old boxer returns to the boxing rings. Stallone admits that when he had the script written, no one wanted to bet on the film, because of the economic disaster of the last Rocky sequel released 16 years ago. However, according to Stallone, this time a producer agreed to read his script by courtesy, remaining the script practically in the drawer. Curiously, who finished reading and getting excited with the script was the wife of the producer and so the film was made in 2006 with the budget of some $ 20 millions.

The SPANISH FILM ACADEMY pays tribute to the Basque director ANTXON ECEIZA

Today, Tuesday February 28th , the Film Academy of Spain pays a posthumous tribute to Antxon Eceiza, a Basque director who died last year, projecting his film "Days of smoke" at the Academy's film theater.

Antxon Eceiza was a historical figure of the Basque cinema,  directing films like "The Embodied Mind", "The secret intentions" or "Last meeting". The now projected "Days of smoke" was the first film shot in Basque language that would compete in an official section of an international film festival, in this case, the Festival of San Sebastian.

The screening will take place today at 20:00 under the heading "Antxon Eceiza in memoriam."

Before the screening of "Days of smoke" will also be projected the short film "Through St. Sebastian" which Eceiza co-directed with Elías Querejeta, with whom he founded a theater-forum in his home town, San Sebastian, and with whom he collaborated in several occasions.

"Days of smoke" features a cast led by the Mexican actor and producer Pedro Armendáriz Jr., who died a month after the death of Eceiza.

According to the director's own words about the film: "I am a young Basque filmmaker who is old of age. "Days of smoke" was a heroic decision in 1988, and even today it keeps being heroic for a Basque film director to make a film with a Basque theme, shot in the Basque Country and in Basque language. "

The cinematographic testament of Eceiza was the film "Congratulations Tovarich" starring Paco Rabal.

We hope many can attend this historical projection offered by the Spanish Academy.

Spanish Academy GOYA AWARDS, 2012

José Coronado and Enrique Urbizu

Yesterday, February 19 was held the Goya Awards of the Spanish Film Academy. The big winner of the night turned out to be Enrique Urbizu with his film "No Rest for the Wicked" with a total of six awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay awards and Best Actor Award for Jose Coronado.

Isabel Coixet's documentary on the Spanish Judge Baltasar Garzon "Listening to Judge Garzon" won the Goya for best documentary. The Catalan director used her presence at the gala to claim the innocence of Baltasar Garzón against the three legal imputations the judge is facing in Spain. Interestingly today, February 20th, Garzon has been formally removed from his judicial career by The Standing Committee of the Supreme Judicial Council of Spain because of the authorization given by the judge to some listenings of  prisoners suspected in the Spanish Gurtel- corruption case.

According to Coixet's words, "The Supreme Court may set aside Garzon of justice, but  nothing and nobody can separate justice from Judge Garzon," the filmmaker makes clear her opinion on the innocence of the judge and highlights the good intention of Garzon by adding "I wish that there had been no peace for the wicked," alluding to the great film by Urbizu with whom she shared yesterday's Goya Awards victory.

To highlight other winners, Elena Anaya was the winner of the Goya for Best Actress, while Lluis Homar and Ana Wagener received the Goyas of the supporting actors. Below a video of the Santiago Segura's monologue that gave the funny spark to the gala, and the complete list of winners. Congratulations to Enrique Urbizu, Isabel Coixet and all the winners!

GOYA AWARDS 2012:

Film
No Rest for the Wicked, Enrique Urbizu.

Director
Enrique Urbizu, No Rest for the Wicked.

New Director
Kike Maillo,  Eva.

Original Script
Enrique Urbizu and Michel Gaztambide, No Rest for the Wicked.

Adapted Script
Angel de la Cruz, Ignacio Ferreras, Paco Roca and Rosanna Cecchini, Wrinkles.

Original Score
Alberto Iglesias, The Skin I Live In.

Original Song
Nana de la hierbabuena, for La voz dormida.

Lead Actor
Jose Coronado, for No Rest for the Wicked.

Lead Actress
Elena Anaya, for The Skin I Live In.

Supporting Actor
Lluis Homar, for Eva.

Supporting Actress
Ana Wagener, for The Sleeping Voice.

New Actor
Jan Cornet, for The Skin I Live In.

New Actress
Maria Leon, for The Sleeping Voice.

Production Design
Andres Santana, for Blackthorn.

Photography
Juan Antonio Ruiz Anchia, for Blackthorn.

Editing
Pablo Blanco, for No Rest for the Wicked.

Artistic Director
Juan Pedro de Gaspar, for Blackthorn.

Wardrobe
Clara Bilbao, for Blackthorn.

Makeup and Hair
Karmele Soler, David Marti and Manolo Carretero, for The Skin I Live In.

Sound
Licio Marcos de Oliveira and Ignacio Royo-Villanova, for No Rest for the Wicked.

Special Effects
Arturo Balseiro and Lluis Castells, for Eva.

Animated Feature
Wrinkles.

Documentary Film
Escuchando al juez Garzon.

Ibero-American Film
Un cuento chino.

European Film
The Artist.

Spanish Fiction Short
El barco pirata.

Animated Short
Big Boy.

Documentary Short
Regreso a Viridiana.

Honorary Goya
Josefina Molina