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Spain Selects Trueba’s “Vivir es Facil con los Ojos Cerrados” as Its Oscar Entry for Best Foreign Language Film

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Does David Trueba‘s latest film have what it takes to earn Oscar glory?

The Spanish Academy of Arts and Cinematographic Sciences seems to think so, selecting the 45-year-old Spanish director’s Vivir es Facil con los Ojos Cerrados as its entry for best foreign language film at next year’s Academy Awards.

David Trueba

Trueba’s film, chosen Thursday the nation’s film acaedmy, tells the true story of an English-language teacher from Spain who traveled to the southern province of Almeria in 1966 to try to meet late Beatles star John Lennon, who was staying there.

The movie takes its name from the lyrics of the Beatles song “Strawberry Fields Forever,” which Lennon began writing in Almeria.

The U.S. film academy will select finalists for the Oscars in January, with the awards announced a month later.

Spain has won four Oscars for best foreign language film. Trueba’s brother, Fernando Trueba, won the category in 1994 for Belle Epoque. The country’s other winners include José Luis Garci’s Begin the Beguine (1982), Pedro Almodovar’s All About My Mother (1999) and Alejandro Amenábar’s The Sea Inside.

In all, Spain has earned 18 Best Foreign Language Film nominations since the launch of the category in 1956, with The Sea Inside serving as the country’s last nominated (and eventual Oscar-winning) film.

Trueba Collects Two Goya Awards for the Spanish Film “Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados”

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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.

David Trueba

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