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Cinema series “Goya Awards”

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The cinema series ‘Goya Awards’ is dedicated to the latest four films that have received the Goya Award to the Best Film. The annual Goya Awards were born in 1987 at the Lope de Vega Theatre in Madrid. As a commemoration of the 25th anniversary, we introduce the four awarded films in this series: Pa negre (dir. Agustí Villaronga), Celda 211 (dir. Daniel Monzón), Camino (dir. Javier Fesser) and La soledad (dir. Jaime Rosales).

Every year, the Academy celebrates the quality of Spanish cinema by presenting the Goya Awards, to the best professionals in each of the technical and creative categories. Furthermore, an Honorary Goya is presented at each ceremony, an award for the lifetime work of a filmmaker in any discipline. The Board of Governors selects the winner in recognition of a lifetime dedicated to cinema.

The argument selected to justify the decision was that Goya, besides being a world-recognised painter and representative of Spanish culture, was a short name, with a similar feel to the US Oscar and French César. Proposed to the assembly, Academy members became entangled in a new controvesy, which was finally cinched at the very end by art director Ramiro Gómez. He reminded attendees that Goya had had a pictorial concept very close to that in films and that several of his most representative works had an almost sequential treatment.