Annex: 18th edition of the Goya Awards

The 18th Annual Awards Ceremony of the "Goya" Academy took place at the Palacio Municipal de Congresos del Campo de las Naciones in Madrid on January 31 2004. The director of the gala was Juan Luis Iborra and the presenters were the Spanish actress Cayetana Guillén Cuervo and the Mexican actor Diego Luna as a bridge between Spanish and Latin American cinema.

Ceremony presenters

• Cayetana Guillén Cuervo and Diego Luna (Gala drivers)
• Cecilia Roth
• Lolita (Premio a la mejor dirección novel)
• Rossy de Palma y Daniel Freire (Premio a la mejor actress revela y mejor vestuario)
• Leonardo Sbaraglia and Leonor Watling (Premio al mejor actor revela)
• Mercedes Morán and Alvaro de Luna (Premio a la mejor cine de animation)
• Pilar Bardem (Premio a la mejor Música original)
• Pilar López de Ayala and Elena Anaya (Premio a la mejor foto)
• Goya Toledo and Antonio Valero

Candidacies

Goya of honor

• Hector Alterio (Actor)

Best Film

Best Directing

Best New Director

Best Actress

Best Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best New Actress

Best Newcomer

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay

Best European Film

Best Spanish-language foreign film

Best Animated Film

Best Original Score

Best Original Song

Best Cinematography

Best Editing

Best Art Direction

Best Production Direction

Best Costume Design

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

Better sound

Best Special Effects

Best Documentary Film

Best Fiction Short Film

Best Documentary Short Film

Best Animated Short Film

Galic controversy

This edition was marked by the controversy surrounding Julio Médem's feature-length documentary "La Pelota Vasca". The AVT called a demonstration at the entrance to the Palacio de Congresos for the inclusion of the documentary in the awards, since they considered that it equated the victims of the ETA attacks with the murderers of the terrorist group. For this reason, they asked for the support of the attendees, who were asked to wear a sticker with the slogan "No to ETA". With this they remembered the badges saying "No to war" that actors and directors did not hesitate to wear during the previous edition of the awards. In addition, in that demonstration you could read banners with messages such as "No to Medem" or "No to Basque Pelota: the neck against the bullet". For their part, some of the attendees closed ranks around the Basque director, and wore their own stickers that read messages such as "Médem Sí, ETA No", & #34;Yes to freedom of expression" or "No to terrorism".