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Spain’s Goya Awards: J.A. Bayona’s ‘Society of the Snow’ Wins Best Picture, Director as Sigourney Weaver Receives an International Goya
Los Javis, Penélope Cruz, Pedro Almodóvar, Gael García Bernal featured in an awards ceremony which was a show of Spanish cinema’s strength.
These took in Estibaliz’s Urresola Berlin triple winner “20,000 Species of Bees,” David Trueba ’s real-life tender love story “Jokes & Cigarettes,” Isabel Coixet’s probing “Un Amor” and Victor Erice ’s “Close Your Eyes,” an “aching ode to film, time and memory,” Variety wrote in its review. In a further show of strength of the Spanish and Spanish-speaking cinema, present at this year’s Goya Awards were Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar who celebrated on stage a 25th anniversary reunion of “All About My Mother” cast as well as Gael García Bernal. 103-year-old Spanish cinematographer Juan Mariné (“,”), whose career reaches back to serving as a camera operator on 1943’s “Eloísa está debajo de un almendro,” received 2024’s Honorary Goya.
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