Annex: Goya Award for Best Film

The Goya Awards were created by the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences in 1986.

The following list shows the list of all the winners of the Goya Award for Best Film since the first edition of 1986.

The film that has won the most Goya awards is Mar adentro (by Alejandro Amenábar, 2004), with 14 statuettes (out of 15 nominations), followed by ¡Ay, Carmela! (by Carlos Saura, 1990), with 13 statuettes (out of 15 candidacies), Snow White (by Pablo Berger, 2012), with 10 statuettes (out of 18 nominations) and La isla mínima (by Alberto Rodríguez, 2014), with 10 statuettes (out of 17 nominations).

The film with the highest number of nominations is Días contados (by Imanol Uribe, 1994), with 19 nominations (and 8 awards), followed by La Niña de tus ojos (by Fernando Trueba, 1998), with 18 nominations (and 7 awards), Blancanieves (by Pablo Berger, 2012), with 18 nominations (and 10 awards), La isla mínima (by Alberto Rodríguez, 2014), with 17 nominations (and 10 awards), Belle Époque (by Fernando Trueba, 1992), with 17 nominations (and 9 awards) and While the war lasts (by Alejandro Amenábar, 2019) with 17 nominations (and 5 awards).

The films that have won the 5 main Goya awards (best film, director, screenplay, actor and lead actress) are ¡Ay, Carmela! (by Carlos Saura, 1990), I give you my eyes (by Icíar Bollaín, 2003) and The Sea Inside (by Alejandro Amenábar, 2004).

The award-winning films that have been filmed in languages other than Spanish are: The Dream of the Crazy Monkey (in English, by Fernando Trueba, 1989), The Others (in English, by Alejandro Amenábar, 2001), The Secret Life of Words (in English, by Isabel Coixet, 2005), Pa negre (in Catalan, by Agustí Villaronga, 2010) and La librería (in English, by Isabel Coixet, 2017).

The director who has won the Goya award for “best film” the most times is Pedro Almodóvar, with 4 awards. The directors who have won the "doblet" (best film and best director) the most times in the same edition are Alejandro Amenábar, with 3 doublets (in 1996, 2001 and 2004, although on the first occasion the award was for best "new director"), and Pedro Almodóvar (in 1999, 2006 and 2019); while Isabel Coixet and Fernando Trueba have obtained 2 doubles. The director who has won the "triplete" (best film, best director and best screenplay) the most times in the same edition is Alejandro Amenábar, with 3 triplets (in 1996, 2001 and 2004, although on the first occasion the award was for best "new director"), followed by Fernando Trueba with 2 triplets (in 1989 and 1992) and Isabel Coixet in 2005 and 2017.

The new directors who have won the award for “best film” with their first film are Agustín Díaz Yanes (for Nobody will talk about us when we have died, 1995), Alejandro Amenábar (for Tesis, 1996), Achero Mañas (for El Bola, 2000), Raúl Arévalo (for Afternoon for Wrath, 2016) and Pilar Palomero (for The Girls, 2021). The five also won the "best new director" award.

The screenwriters who have won the Goya award for "best film" the most times with their scripts, with 4 awards each, are Rafael Azcona, (for The Animated Forest, ¡Ay, Carmela!, Belle Époque and The Apple of Your Eyes), and Pedro Almodóvar (for Mujeres al Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, Go Back and Pain and Glory); followed by Alejandro Amenábar, with 3 awards for "best film" each for his scripts.

The production company that has won the Goya award for “best film” the most times is El Deseo, with 5 awards (for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, The Secret Life of Words, Volver and Pain and Glory), followed by Fernando Trueba PC, Mediapro and Sogetel /Sogecine, with 3 awards each.

For screenplays, the Goya Award for “Best Film” has been awarded 24 times to an original screenplay and 6 times to an adapted screenplay (mainly in the first editions. In recent 21 years, only one film started from an adapted script: Pa negre, by Emili Teixidor). Of all the winning films, the ones that are based on real events have been 5.

By genres, the Goya Award for «Best Film» has been awarded 15 times to a drama, 8 times to a comedy, 5 times to a thriller and 2 times to a film of suspense-horror.

Winning Films

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1990s

2000s

Decade of 2010

Decade 2020

Film directors, producers and screenwriter statistics

Directors who have won the Goya Award for the best film

4 awards

• Pedro AlmodóvarWomen on the verge of a nerve attack, All about my mother, Back, Pain and glory)

3 awards

• Alejandro Amenábar (Thesis, The others, Sea in)
• Fernando Trueba (The dream of a mad monkey, Belle Époque, The girl in your eyes)

Directors who have most often won the Goya award for the best film

- In bold They include the films for which they have won the Goya Prize.

10 nominations

• Pedro AlmodóvarWomen on the verge of a nerve attack, Attack me!, All about my mother, Talk to her., Bad education, Back, The skin that I dwell in, Juliet, Pain and glory, Mothers Parallel: 4 awards.

6 nominations

• Alejandro Amenábar (Thesis, Open your eyes, The others, Sea in, As long as the war lasts): 3 awards.

5 nominations

• Fernando León de Aranoa (Barrio, Mondays in the sun, Princesses, A perfect day, The good pattern): 2 awards.
• Fernando Trueba (The dream of a mad monkey, Belle Époque, The girl in your eyes, The Victory Dance, The artist and the model): 3 awards.
• Vicente Aranda (The Lute: Walk or shine, Love, Intruder, Turkish passion, Juana la Loca): 1 award.

4 nominations

• Isabel Coixet (My life without me, The Secret Life of Words, Nobody wants the night, The bookstore): 2 awards.
• Icíar Bollaín (Plain)I give you my eyes, Also rain, Rosa's wedding, Maixabel): 1 award.
• Agustín Díaz Yanes (Agustin Díaz Yanes)No one will talk about us when we're dead., No news from God, Alatriste, I just want to walk.): 1 award.
• Montxo Armendáriz (27 hours, The letters of Alou, Secrets of the heart, Obaba): 0 awards.
• Alex of the Church (The Day of the Beast, The community, The Oxford Crimes, Sad tile of trumpet): 0 awards.
• José Luis GarciCuna song, Grandpa, You're the One, Tiovivo v. 1950): 0 awards.
• Alberto Rodríguez (7 virgins, Group 7, The minimum island, The man of the thousand faces): 1 award.

3 nominations

• José Luis CuerdaThe animated forest, The language of the butterflies, The blind sunflowers): 1 award.
• Imanol Uribe (Imanol Uribe)The stunned king, Days counted, Bwana): 1 award.
• Gracia QuerejetaWhen you come back to me, 15 years and a day, Seven French billiard tables): 0 awards.
• Benito ZambranoSouls, The voice asleep, Intemperary): 0 awards.

2 nominations

• Fernando Fernán GómezThe journey to nowhere, The sea and time): 1 award.
• Daniel Monzón (Cell 211, The Child): 1 award.
• Javier FesserCamino, Champions): 2 awards.
• David Trueba (Salamina Soldiers, Living is easy with closed eyes): 1 award.
• Agustí Villaronga (Agustí Villaronga)The boy of the moon, Pa negre): 1 award.
• Adolfo AristarainMartin (Hache), Rome): 0 awards.
• Aitor Arregi (Aitor Arregi)Handia, The infinite trench): 0 awards
• Juan Antonio BayonaThe orphanage, The impossible): 0 awards.
• Jon Garaño (Handia, The infinite trench): 0 awards
• Emilio Martínez-LázaroThe other side of the bed, The 13 roses): 0 awards.
• Antonio MerceroWait for me in heaven, Plan 4a): 0 awards.
• Gonzalo SuárezRemaining to the wind, Don Juan in Hell): 0 awards.

Directors with one candidature and one award

• Pablo Berger (Snow White)
• Ricardo Franco (The good star)
• Luis García BerlangaEveryone to jail)
• Achero Mañas (The Ball)
• Jaime RosalesLoneliness)
• Carlos Saura (Carlos Saura)Oh, Carmela!)
• Enrique Urbizu (There will be no peace for the wicked)
• Pilar PalomeroGirls)

Scriptwriters who have won the Goya Award for Best Film the most times

4 awards

• Pedro AlmodóvarWomen on the verge of a nerve attack, All about my mother, Back, Pain and Glory)
• Rafael AzconaThe animated forest, Oh, Carmela!, Belle Époque, The girl in your eyes).

3 awards

• Alejandro Amenábar (Thesis, The others, Sea in)

2 awards

• David Trueba (The girl in your eyes, Living is easy with closed eyes)
• Javier FesserCamino, Champions)

Producers that have won the Goya award for best film the most times

5 awards

• The Wish (Women on the verge of a nerve attack, All about my mother, The Secret Life of Words, Back, Pain and Glory)

3 awards

• Fernando Trueba PC (Belle Époque, The girl in your eyes, Living is easy with closed eyes)
• Mediapro (Mondays in the sun, The Secret Life of Words, Camino)
• Sogetel/Sogecine (Everyone to jail, The others, Sea in)

2 awards

• Ibero-American FilmsThe dream of a mad monkey, Oh, Carmela!)
• LolafilmsBelle Époque, The girl in your eyes)
• Productions of the Scorpion (Thesis, The others)
• Pedro Costa PC (Love, The good star)
• Telecinco CinemaCell 211, There will be no peace for the wicked)

Movie Statistics

Films that have been nominated for the 5 main Goya awards (best film, director, screenplay, actor and leading actress)

They won all 5 awards

• Oh, Carmela! (1990): film, director (Carlos Saura), adapted script (Rafael Azcona and Carlos Saura) and protagonists (Andrés Pajares and Carmen Maura).
• I give you my eyes (2003): film, director (Icíar Bollaín), original script (Icíar Bollaín) and protagonists (Luis Tosar and Laia Marull).
• Sea in (2004): film, director (Alejandro Amenábar), original script (Alejandro Amenábar and Mateo Gil) and protagonists (Javier Bardem and Lola Dueñas).

They didn't win the 5 awards.

4 awards

• Belle Époque (1992): he won film, director (Fernando Trueba), original script (Rafael Azcona, José Luis García Sánchez and Fernando Trueba) and actress (Ariadna Gil), but lost actor (Jorge Sanz).
• Days counted (1994): he won film, director (Imanol Uribe), adapted script (Imanol Uribe) and actor (Carmelo Gómez), but lost actress (Ruth Gabriel, although he won it as an actress revelation).
• The good star (1997): won film, director (Ricardo Franco), original script (Ricardo Franco) and Angels González-Sinde and actor (Antonio Resines), but lost actress (Maribel Verdu).
• Pain and glory (2019): he won film, director (Pedro Almodóvar), original script (Pedro Almodóvar) and protagonist actor (Antonio Banderas), but lost actress (Penélope Cruz).

3 awards

• The Hortelane Dog (1996): won director (Pilar Miró), adapted script (Pilar Miró and Rafael Pérez Sierra) and actress (Emma Suárez); lost film and actor (Carmelo Gómez).
• Snow White (2012): won film, original script (Pablo Berger) and actress (Maribel Verdú); lost director (Pablo Berger) and actor (Daniel Giménez Cacho).

2 awards

• Love (1991): won film and director (Vicente Aranda); lost original script (Álvaro del Amo, Carlos Pérez Merinero and Vicente Aranda), actor (Jorge Sanz) and actresses (Victoria Abril and Maribel Verdú).
• The girl in your eyes (1998): he won film and actress (Penelope Cruz); lost director (Fernando Trueba), original script (Rafael Azcona, David Trueba, Carlos López and Miguel Ángel Egea) and actor (Antonio Resines).

1 award

• The sea and time (1989): won actress (Rafaela Aparicio); lost film, director (Fernando Fernán Gómez), adapted script (Fernando Fernán Gómez) and actor (Fernando Fernán Gómez).
• Grandpa (1998): won actor (Fernando Fernán Gómez); lost film, director (José Luis Garci), adapted script (José Luis Garci and Times Valcárcel) and actress (Cayetana Guillén Cuervo).
• The Labyrinth of Fauna (2006): won original script (Guillermo del Toro); lost film, director (Guillermo del Toro), actor (Sergi López) and actress (Maribel Verdú).
• The blind sunflowers (2008): won adapted script (José Luis Cuerda and Rafael Azcona); lost film, director (José Luis Cuerda), actor (Raúl Arévalo) and actress (Maribel Verdú).
• The skin that I dwell in (2011): won actress (Elena Anaya); lost film, director (Pedro Almodóvar), adapted script (Pedro Almodóvar) and actor (Antonio Banderas).
• Magical girl (2014): won actress (Bárbara Lennie); lost film, director (Carlos Vermut), original script (Carlos Vermut) and actor (Luis Bermejo).
• The infinite trench (2019): won actress (Belén Cuesta); lost film, director (Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga), original script (Jose Mari Goenaga and Luiso Berdejo) and actor (Antonio de la Torre).

0 awards

• Attack me! (1990): lost film, director (Pedro Almodóvar), original script (Pedro Almodóvar), actor (Antonio Banderas) and actress (Victoria Abril).
• Ham, ham (1993): lost film, director (Bigas Luna), original script (Bigas Luna) and (Cuca Canals), actor (Javier Bardem) and actress (Penelope Cruz)
• I just want to walk. (2008): lost film, director (Agustín Díaz Yanes), original script (Agustín Díaz Yanes), actor (Diego Luna) and actress (Ariadna Gil)
• The artist and the model (2012): lost film, director (Fernando Trueba), original script (Fernando Trueba and Jean-Claude Carrière), actor (Jean Rochefort) and actress (Aida Folch).
• The bride (2015): lost film, director (Paula Ortiz), adapted script (Paula Ortiz and Javier García Arredondo), actor (Asier Etxeandía) and actress (Inma Cuesta).
• Everyone knows. (2018): lost film, director (Asghar Farhadi), original script (Asghar Farhadi), actor (Javier Bardem) and actress (Penelope Cruz).

More nominations for the top 5 awards

• Love (1991) is the only film he has ever had 6 candidatures among the 5 main prizes: film, director (Vicente Aranda), original script (Álvaro del Amo, Carlos Pérez Merinero and Vicente Aranda), actor (Jorge Sanz) and two actresses (Victoria Abril and Maribel Verdú), as well as the assembly. Finally, out of a total of 7 candidatures only took 2 awards: film and director.

Films with the most Goya awards

14 awards

• Sea in (2004) of 15 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]

13 awards

• Oh, Carmela! (1990) of 15 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]

10 awards

• Snow White (2012) of 18 candidatures [taken the Best Film Award]
• The minimum island (2014) of 17 nominations [taken the Best Film Award]
• Handia (2017) of 13 candidates

9 awards

• Belle Époque (1992) of 17 nominations [taken the Best Film Award]
• Pa negre (black bread) (2010) of 14 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]
• A monster comes to see me (2017) of 12 nominations

8 awards

• The stunned king (1991) of 14 nominations
• Days counted (1994) of 19 nominations [taken the Best Film Award]
• No one will talk about us when we're dead. (1995) of 10 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]
• The others (2001) of 15 candidatures [taken the Best Film Award]
• Cell 211 (2009) of 16 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]
• The witches of Zugarramurdi (2013), of 10 applications

7 awards

• Thesis (1996) of 8 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]
• The Hortelane Dog (1996) of 12 candidates
• The girl in your eyes (1998) of 18 candidatures [taken the Best Film Award]
• All about my mother (1999) of 14 nominations [taken the Best Film Award]
• I give you my eyes (2003) of 9 nominations [taken the Best Film Award]
• The Labyrinth of Fauna (2006) of 13 candidates
• The orphanage (2007), 14 nominations
• Agora (2009) of 13 candidates
• The kingdom (2018), of 13 candidatures
• Pain and glory (2019) of 16 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]

6 awards

• Remaining to the wind (1988) of 13 candidates
• The dream of a mad monkey (1989) of 11 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]
• Tirano Banderas (1993) of 7 nominations
• The Day of the Beast (1995) of 14 candidates
• Camino (2008) of 7 nominations [taken the award for the movie.]
• There will be no peace for the wicked (2011) of 14 nominations [taken the Best Film Award]
• Living is easy with closed eyes (2013), 7 nominations [taken the Best Film Award]

5 awards

• The animated forest (1987) of 8 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]
• Women on the verge of a nerve attack (1988) of 16 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]
• Cuna song (1994) of 11 candidates
• The good star (1997) of 8 nominations [taken the Best Film Award]
• Souls (1999) of 11 nominations
• Goya in Bordeaux (1999) of 10 nominations
• You're the One (a story then) (2000) of 14 candidates
• Mondays in the sun (2002) of 8 nominations [taken the Best Film Award]
• The Great Adventure of Mortadelo and Philemon (2003) of 6 candidates
• Back (2006) of 14 nominations [taken the Best Film Award]
• The impossible (2012) of 14 candidatures
• Truman (2015), 6 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]
• As long as the war lasts (2019) of 17 nominations

4 awards

• Divine words (1987) of 6 candidates
• The Ball (2000) of 5 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]
• The Secret Life of Words (2005) of 5 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]
• The 13 roses (2007), 14 nominations
• Blackthorn (2011) of 11 nominations
• The Child (2014) of 16 candidatures
• Nobody wants the night (Nobody Wants the Night(2015), 9 nominations
• Late for anger (2016), 11 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]

3 awards

• The journey to nowhere (1986) of 5 candidates [taken the Best Film Award]
• The boy of the moon (1989) of 10 candidates
• The teacher of fencing (1992) of 11 nominations
• Mutual action (1992) of 6 nominations
• Everyone to jail (1993) of 5 applications [taken the Best Film Award]
• The community (2000) of 15 candidates
• Juana la Loca (2001), 12 nominations
• The sausage of Shanghai (2002) of 6 candidates
• Princesses (2005), 9 nominations
• Shrimp (2005) of 5 candidates
• Alatriste (2006) of 15 nominations
• BlueOscuroNegro (2006) of 6 candidates
• Loneliness (2007), of 3 applications [taken the Best Film Award]
• The Oxford Crimes (2008) of 6 candidates
• The Manco Trick (2008) of 3 candidates
• Also rain (2010) of 13 candidates
• Buried (2010) of 10 candidates
• EVA (2011) of 12 nominations
• The voice asleep (2011) of 9 nominations
• Tadeo Jones Adventures (2012) of 5 applications
• The bookshop (2017) of 12 candidatures [taken the Best Film Award]
• Summer 1993 (2017) of 8 nominations
• Champions (2018), 11 nominations [taken the Best Film Award]
• The shadow of the law (2018), 6 nominations

- Lovers is the film that, having won the Best Film award, received the fewest Goya awards, only 2 (out of 7 nominations).

Films with the most Goya Award nominations

20 nominations

• The good pattern (2021), 6 awards

19 nominations

• Days counted (1994), 8 awards

18 nominations

• The girl in your eyes (1998), 7 awards
• Snow White (2012), 10 awards

17 nominations

• Belle Époque (1992), 9 awards
• The minimum island (2014), 10 awards
• As long as the war lasts (2019), 5 awards

16 nominations

• Women on the verge of a nerve attack (1988), 5 awards
• Cell 211 (2009), 8 awards
• The skin that I dwell in (2011), 4 awards
• Group 7 (2012), 2 awards
• The Child (2014), 4 awards
• Pain and glory (2019), 7 awards

15 nominations

• Oh, Carmela! (1990), 13 awards
• Attack me! (1990), 0 awards [film with more nominations and no awards]
• The community (2000), 3 awards
• The others (2001), 8 awards
• Sea in (2004), 14 awards [film with the highest number of awards]
• Alatriste (2006), 3 awards
• The blind sunflowers (2008), 1 award
• Sad tile of trumpet (2010), 2 awards
• The infinite trench (2019), 2 awards

14 nominations

• The stunned king (1991), 8 awards
• The Day of the Beast (1995), 6 awards
• All about my mother (1999), 7 awards
• You're the One (a story then) (2000), 5 awards
• Back (2006), 5 awards
• The orphanage (2007), 7 awards
• The 13 roses (2007), 4 awards
• Pa negre (black bread) (2010), 9 awards
• There will be no peace for the wicked (2011), 6 awards
• The impossible (2012), 5 awards

13 nominations

• Remaining to the wind (1988), 6 awards
• Grandpa (1998), 1 award
• The language of the butterflies (1999), 1 award
• The Labyrinth of Fauna (2006), 7 awards
• Agora (2009), 7 awards
• Also rain (2010), 3 awards
• The artist and the model (2012), 0 awards
• Handia (2017), 10 awards
• The kingdom (2018), 7 awards

12 nominations

• Turkish passion (1994), 2 awards
• The Hortelane Dog (1996), 7 awards
• Juana la Loca (2001), 3 awards
• EVA (2011), 3 awards
• The bride (2015), 2 awards
• The bookstore (2017), 3 awards
• A monster comes to see me (2017), 10 awards

11 nominations

• Esquilache (1989), 2 awards
• The teacher of fencing (1992), 3 awards
• Cuna song (1994), 5 awards
• Souls (1999), 5 awards
• Lucia and sex (2001), 2 awards
• No news from God (2001), 0 awards
• Salvador (2006), 1 award
• I just want to walk. (2008), 1 award
• Blackthorn (2011), 4 awards
• The great Spanish family (2013), 2 awards
• Champions (2018), 3 awards

10 nominations

• The boy of the moon (1989), 3 awards
• The sea and time (1989), 2 awards
• No one will talk about us when we're dead. (1995), 8 awards
• Open your eyes (1997), 0 awards
• Goya in Bordeaux (1999), 5 awards
• Obaba (2005), 1 award
• Seven French billiard tables (2007), 2 awards
• Buried (2010), 3 awards
• The witches of Zugarramurdi (2013), 8 awards

Genre Awards for Best Film

Scripts

• Original guides: 25
• Adapted guides: 6
• Movies based on real facts: 5

Genres

• Drama: 15
  • Social Drama: 4
  • Drama: 3
  • Drama- sickness: 3
  • Drama-intrigue: 2
  • Romantic Drama: 1
  • Drama-fantastic: 1
  • Melodrama-comedia: 1

• Comedy: 8
  • Dramatic comedy: 3
  • Comedy: 2
  • Romantic comedy: 1
  • Costumbrist comedy: 1
  • Comedy-fantastic: 1

• Thriller: 6

• Suspense-terror: 2