20,000 species of bees, by Estibaliz Urresola, caused surprise yesterday and prevailed in the nominations of the 38th edition of the Goya Awards, which will be held on February 10 in Valladolid. The drama of a trans childhood, already awarded in Berlin for the young protagonist, Sofía Otero - who cannot qualify for the Goya because she is under 16 years old -, obtained 15 nominations, such as those for best film, new director , script and actress of the year for Patricia López Arnaiz.
The two films that appeared as favorites have finished second and third in the nominations, but they will also fight for best film and director. The survival drama in the Andes La sociedad de la nieve, by J.A. Bayona, which the Academy of Cinema has already sent to the Oscars, has won 13. And Close your eyes, the return to Víctor Erice's feature film, which narrates the disappearance of a performer, 11, such as for best actor ( Manolo Solo) and actress and supporting actor (Ana Torrent and José Coronado). The same nominations, 11, which has achieved another surprise of these Goya: Saben aquell, the film about the comedian Eugenio directed by David Trueba, which enters the main nominations, including David Verdaguer and Carolina Yuste as best interpreters Isabel Coixet has also entered the main categories – film, direction, screenplay adapted together with Laura Ferrero – with the obsessive passion of Un amor, with seven possibilities of Goya, including the protagonists, Laia Costa and Hovik Keuchkerian, and Hugo Silva as secondary.
No longer in the running for best film of the year, they have received five nominations for The master who promised the sea - with Enric Auquer as a candidate for best actor for playing the republican teacher Luis Benaiges, murdered in 1936 - and also Te estoy amando locamente, the vindictive film by Alejandro Marín, nominated for best new director, about a young gay man in Seville in the seventies, and for which Omar Banana and La Dani can be the revelation actor of the year.
Chinas, by Arantxa Echevarria, the search for identity of two girls of Chinese origin in Spain, gets four nominations, such as those for breakthrough performers for Julio Hu Chen, Yeju Yi and Xinyi Ye. The same as Robot dreams, the animated film by Pablo Berger, which will compete with Dispararon al pianista, by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. And that Creatura, for which Elena Martín will fight for the Goya for best director, Clara Segura and Àlex Brendemühl for best supporting actors, and young Clàudia Malagelada for breakthrough actress.
This excessive ambition, the documentary about C. Tangana, will compete in the category with Mientras seas tú, el aquí y el ahora by Carme Elias, about the actress' Alzheimer's disease. Tangana will not be the only music of the Goyas: Andrea Motis (Saben aquell), Alfonso de Vilallonga (Robot dreams), Arnau Bataller (The paradox of Antares), Michael Giacchino (La sociedad de la nieve) and Natasha Arizu (The master who he promised... ) will compete for best soundtrack. And Rigoberta Bandini, for Yo solo quiero amor, in Te estoy amando locamente, and Xoel López, for Eco, in Amigos hasta la muerte, will face each other for the best song.
