The Goya Awards 2023 arrive, with 'As bestas' as the favorite

The 37th Goya Awards gala arrives tonight in Seville with a list of nominations led by As bestas, the rural thriller set in Galicia, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, which aspires to 17 awards.

Thomas Osborne
Thomas Osborne
13 February 2023 Monday 20:13
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The Goya Awards 2023 arrive, with 'As bestas' as the favorite

The 37th Goya Awards gala arrives tonight in Seville with a list of nominations led by As bestas, the rural thriller set in Galicia, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, which aspires to 17 awards.

They are followed by Model 77, by Alberto Rodríguez (16), Alcarràs, by Carla Simón (11), Cinco lobitos, by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (11), Los renglones torcidos de Dios, by Oriol Paulo (6), Cerdita, by Carlota Pereda (6), and La maternal, by Pilar Palomero, with three nominations.

The great protagonist of this edition of the Goyas is As bestas, the rural thriller by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, who leads the list of nominees aspiring to 17 statuettes. The film competes for the most important awards of the night, such as the best film, direction and original script.

It is also very present in the acting categories, where Denis Ménochet is nominated for Best Leading Actor, Marina Foïs for Best Leading Actress, Marie Colomb for Best Supporting Actress, and both Diego Anida and Luis Zanera are up for the Best Actor statuette. delivery.

Based on true events, As bestas tells the story of Antoine and Olga, a French couple who move to a small village in rural Galicia. Despite leading a quiet life, coexistence among the locals becomes complicated, and the protagonists find themselves involved in a conflict with their neighbors, the Anta brothers.

As bestas is closely followed by Modelo 77, by Alberto Rodríguez, with a total of 16 nominations. Rodríguez's film aspires to the most important awards of the gala, such as best film, direction, original script, leading actors (Javier Gutiérrez and Miguel Herrán) and supporting actor for the performances of Fernando Tejero and Jesús Cazorra.

Modelo 77, located in the historic La Modelo prison in Barcelona, ​​is a prison drama that tells the story of Manuel, a young accountant imprisoned and awaiting trial for committing embezzlement. He faces a possible disproportionate penalty for the amount of his crime, and for this reason, together with his cellmate, Pino, he joins a group of prisoners who demand amnesty in the last years of Francoism and the beginning of the Transition. .

The winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale last year culminates her journey at the Goya, where she is up for 11 awards. Alcarràs, by Carla Simón, is a candidate for the main Goyas of the gala: best film, direction and original script.

The performances of the film's non-professional actors have not gone unnoticed by the Film Academy, as Jordi Pujol i Dolcet and the young Albert Bosch are nominated in the category of best newcomer, and Anna Otín in the category of newcomer.

Located in a small town in Lleida, Alcarrás tells the story of a family that, generation after generation, works in the cultivation of peaches. It is the last harvest, because the Solé family has lost their land.

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa's debut feature is another of the most nominated of the night. Cinco lobitos has 11 nominations, including those considered the most important: film, original script and new director.

In the acting categories, the film is up for four awards: leading actress for Laia Costa, supporting actress for Susi Sánchez, supporting actor for Ramón Barea, and revelation actor for Mikel Bustamante.

Ruiz de Azúa's film tells the story of Amaia, a woman who has just become a mother and realizes that she doesn't really know how to be one. When her partner goes on a work trip, Amaia decides to share the responsibility of being a mother by spending a few days at her parents' house. She then realizes that no matter how much she is now a mother, she has not stopped being her daughter.

Oriol Paulo's thriller, God's Crooked Lines, is up for six nominations. Among them are the best adapted script, for the adaptation of the book by Torcuato Luca de Tena, leading actress for the performance of Bárbara Lennie, and original music.

God's Crooked Lines follows Alice, a private investigator who enters a mental hospital under the guise of paranoia to find out about the death of an inmate under unclear circumstances. However, the reality she faces in her confinement exceeds her expectations and calls her own sanity into question.

Pig, the directorial debut Carlota Pereda, arrives at the Goya gala with six nominations. Among these, Pereda is nominated for Best New Director, Laura Galán for Best New Actress and Carmen Machi for Best Supporting Actress.

The film is the leap into feature length of the successful eponymous short written and directed by Pereda in 2018, which was awarded the Goya for best fiction short film. This adaptation has been recognized with the nomination for best adapted screenplay.

Pereda's thriller tells the story of Sara, a young woman who suffers constant ridicule from the girls of her small town. This changes when a stranger kidnaps her stalkers and Sara has to decide whether to speak up and save the girls, or say nothing to protect the strange man who has saved her.

Although with fewer nominations than the previous ones, La maternal, by Pilar Palomero, has been made with three of the most important nominations of the night. The film opts for the awards for best film, direction and supporting actress for the performance of Ángela Cervantes.

The young actress Carla Quílez stars in the drama of Palomero, a performance that was awarded at the San Sebastian Festival and at the Gaudí Awards. She is not nominated for a Goya for being too young. She was 14 years old when the nominations were formalized and her limit is located at 16 years of age.

La maternal tells the story of Carla, a 14-year-old teenager who lives with her mother in an old roadside restaurant on the outskirts of a town. When she realizes that she is five months pregnant, she enters a center for underage mothers, where she shares her daily life with other young women in the same situation. Together they will face this new world of adults for which they have not had time to prepare.