The 36th edition of the Goya Awards 2022 will be held on February 12. The great Spanish cinema awards gala aims to recover the public and the pre-pandemic atmosphere this year, on a night that promises to be spectacular. Valencia becomes the host of the event, and the Palau de les Arts opens as the setting for the gala.
Tribute will be paid to the actor’s career José Sacristán, chosen by the Academy to receive the 2022 Goya Honorary Award“for being a model of dedication, passion, ethics and professionalism for all young filmmakers, and for being the face and voice of Spanish cinema for the last six decades”.
The Galician filmmaker Dani de la Torre will be one of the presenters on Saturday night, but the president of the Film Academy, Mario Barroso, has already announced that he will not be the only one in charge of directing the awards. The gala will be more dynamic than in previous editions, and There will be other personalities from the world of cinema involved in the award ceremony.
A new category is also inaugurated, that of the International Goya, which recognizes figures who “contribute to cinema as an art that unites cultures and viewers from all over the world.” Cate Blanchett will be the first to receive the award. The actress will star in ‘Manual for cleaning women’, an adaptation of Lucia Berlin’s book directed by Pedro Almodóvar from La Mancha.
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Among the favorites to receive the statuette, titles such as ‘The good boss’by Fernando León de Aranoa, which with 20 nominations becomes the most nominated film in the history of these awards. But also ‘Maixabel’, by Icíar Bollaín; ‘Mediterranean’, by Marcel Barrena; ‘Parallel Mothers’, by Pedro Almodóvar; ‘Libertad’, by Clara Roquet, and ‘The Border Laws’, by Daniel Monzón.