David Trueba is no longer a Goya Awards bridesmaid…
The 44-year-old Spanish novelist, film director and screenwriter, previously nominated for eight Goya Awards, picked up multiple awards at the 28th edition of Spain’s equivalent to the Academy Awards.
Trueba earned Best Director and Best Original Screenplay honors for writing and helming his hit Spanish film Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados (Living is Easy With Eyes Closed).
The film also landed the Spanish Film Academy’s top prize for Best Film.
Trueba’s film, based on the true story of an English teacher who motivated his students using Beatles music, beat out Gracias Querejeta’s 15 Years and a Day, Manuel Martin Cuenca’s Cannibal, Daniel Sanchez Arevalo’s Family United and Fernando Franco’s Wounded.
Meanwhile, Alex de la Iglesia’s fantastical Witching & Bitching swept up eight categories, including most of the technical awards, while Living took six awards — among them original score and lead actor.
Editor Fernando Franco won the best new director award for his directorial debut Wounded, while Marian Alvarez won the best actress statue, snagging it in a symbolically young group of actresses with the youngest average age ever for the category.
Miguel Ferrari’s Azul y no Tan Rosa won Venezuela’s first Goya ever for the Best Ibero-American film.
Here’s a complete list of this year’s Goya Award winner:
Film
Living is Easy with Eyes Closed
Fernando Trueba P.C., S.A.
Director
David Trueba for Living is Easy with Eyes Closed
New Director
Fernando Franco for Wounded
Original Screenplay
David Trueba for Living is Easy with Eyes Closed
Adapted Screenplay
Mariano Barroso and Alejandro Hernandez for Todas las Mujeres
Lead Actor
Javier Camara for Living is Easy with Eyes Closed
Lead Actress
Marian Alvarez for Wounded
Supporting Actor
Roberto Alamo for Family United
Supporting Actress
Terele Pavez for Witching & Bitching
New Actor
Javier Pereira for Stockholm
New Actress
Natalia de Molina for Living is Easy with Eyes Closed
Artistic Director
Arturo Garcia Biaffra, Jose Luis Arrizabalaga for Witching & Bitching
Production Design
Carlos Bernases for Witching & Bitching
Original Score
Pat Metheny for Living is Easy with Eyes Closed
Original Song
Do You Really Want to Be in Love?
By Josh Rouse for Family United
Photography
Pau Esteve Birba for Cannibal
Editing
Pablo Blanco for Witching & Bitching
Wardrobe
Francisco Delgado Lopez for Witching & Bitching
Hair and makeup
Maria Dolores Gomez Castro, Javier Hernandez Valentin, Pedro Rodriguez and Francisco J. Rodriguez Frias for Witching & Bitching
Sound
Charly Schmukler and Nicolas de Poulpiquet for Witching & Bitching
Special Effect
Juan Ramon Molina and Ferran Piquer for Witching & Bitching
Animated Feature
Foosball, Jempsa, S.Al, Plural Jempsa and Antena 3
Documentary Feature
Las Maestras de la Republica, directed by Pilar Perez Solano
IberoAmerican Film
Azul y no Tan Rosa, directed by Miguel Ferrari
(Venezuela)
European Film
Amour directed by Michael Haneke
(Austria)
Fiction Short
Abstenerse Agenciasby Gaizka Urresti
Documentary Short
Minerita by Raul de la Fuente
Animated Short
Cuerdas directed by Pedro Solis Garcia
Honorary Goya
Jaime de Arminan
