Goya Awards, César, Oscars… the ceremonies rewarding the best of cinema will follow one another in the coming weeks. Saturday February 12, 2022, the 7th Spanish Art was in the spotlight in Valencia, where the Goya Awards took place.
On the red carpet of the Palais des Arts, Penelope Cruz captivated in a long dress signed Chanel Couture. Came with the cast of the film Parallel Mothers, the latest achievement by Pedro Elmodovar, the 47-year-old Spanish actress enjoyed an evening full of emotions. The iconic brunette witnessed the new coronation of her husband, Javier Bardem. The 52-year-old star landed the best actor award for his role in El buen boss.
This gritty tragicomedy about capitalism by Fernando Leon de Aranoa won six prizes during the evening, including the Goya award for best Spanish film. The film tells the story of Basculas Blanco, a provincial company managed by Julio Blanco, an intrusive, toxic little boss who will do anything to achieve his goals, played by Javier Bardem.
It is the second time that Leon de Aranoa, a 53-year-old former screenwriter who became a late director, has won the Goya for best film, after Los lunes al sol (Mondays in the sun) in 2002. Los lunes al sol had already earned Javier Bardem the Best Actor award. At 52, Bardem is the most awarded Spanish actor in history and one of only two to have received an Oscar. El buen boss had been nominated twenty times for the Goyas, a record.
During the award ceremony, Blanca Portillo for her part was awarded with the Goya for best actress for her role as the widow of a victim of the Basque separatist organization ETA in Maixabel, by Iciar Bollain. The 58-year-old Spanish actress received the Best Actress award at Cannes last year for her role in Voloverby Pedro Almodóvar.
Sensational in an outfit signed Giorgio Armani (she is the muse of the Si perfume), Cate Blanchett gave a glimpse of her chest in front of the photographers. The 52-year-old Australian actress was present to receive an international award.
Cate Blanchett at the Caesars
In just under a week, the star of Nightmare Alley will participate in the Cesar ceremony. The two-time Oscar winner – in 2005 and 2014 for her roles in The Aviator by Martin Scorsese and Blue Jasmine by Woody Allen will be presented with a César of honor for his career and his commitments.
The actress will receive this distinction as she has just completed production of the film TAR directed by Todd Field and plays a psychoanalyst in Guillermo Del Toro’s new film “Nightmare Alley” which will be released in early 2022. this award is also due to his commitment “outside the trays” for “women’s rights or ecology“, had explained the organizers of the Caesars last December.
The star has particularly distinguished herself in the fight of women against sexual violence in the cinema, in particular since the Weinstein affair. In 2018, when she chaired the jury of the 71st Cannes Film Festival, she climbed the famous Cannes marches with 81 other women of the 7th Art, in favor of equality. In addition, she holds the role of goodwill ambassador for the UNHCR, the United Nations refugee agency and was rewarded in 2018 with the Crystal Prize at the World Economic Forum in Davos for her work and dedication.
The 47th Cesars ceremony, broadcast by Canal+, will be held on the Olympia stage in Paris and will be presented by Antoine de Caunes on February 25.