Spain’s Oscar entry ‘The Good Boss’ tops Goya Award nominations with record-breaking 20 nods

The nominations for Spain’s 2022 Goya Awards have been announced and The Good Boss, starring Academy Award winner Javier Bardem, earned an all-time record of 20 nominations across 17 categories. The film is also Spain’s official Oscar entry for International Feature Film.

The film’s record-breaking nomination tally includes Best Picture, Best Director for Fernando León de Aranoa, and Best Original Screenplay. In the acting categories, it also set another record by earning a whopping seven nominations: Bardem for Best Actor, Celso Bugallo, Fernando Albizu and Manolo Solo for Best Supporting Actor, Sonia Almarcha for Best Supporting Actress, Oscar de la Fuente and Tarik Rmili are both up for Best Emerging Actor, and Almudena Amor is nominated for Best Emerging Actress. The film is also up for virtually all below the line categories.

Competing with The Good Boss for Best Film are Libertad, Maixabel, Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea and Parallel Mothers, which stars Bardem’s wife, and fellow Oscar winner, Penélope Cruz. Maixabel earned the next best with 14, Parallel Mothers earned 8.

The 2022 Goya Awards will be held on February 12, 2022 at Les Arts de València. Here is the full list of nominations.

Best Film

The Good Boss (Fernando León de Aranoa)
Libertad (Clara Roquet)
Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
Maixabel (Icíar Bollaín)
Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea (Marcel Barrena)

Best Director

Pedro Almodóvar, Parallel Mothers
Icíar Bollaín, Maixabel
Fernando León de Aranoa, The Good Boss
Manuel Martín Cuenca, The Daughter

Best Actor

Javier Bardem, The Good Boss
Eduard Fernández, Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea
Javier Gutiérrez, The Daughter
Luis Tosar, Maixabel

Best Actress

Penélope Cruz, Parallel Mothers
Petra Martínez, That Was Life
Blanca Portillo, Maixabel
Emma Suárez, Josefina

Best Supporting Actor

Fernando Alvizu, The Good Boss
Celso Bugallo, The Good Boss
Urko Olazabal, Maixabel
Manolo Solo, The Good Boss

Best Supporting Actress

Sonia Almarcha, The Good Boss
Nora Navas, Libertad
Aitana Sánchez Gijón, Parallel Mothers
Milena Smit, Parallel Mothers

Best New Director

Carol Rodríguez Colás, Girlfriends
Javier Marco Rico, Josefina
David Martín de los Santos, That Was Life
Clara Roquet, Libertad

Best New Actor

Óscar de la Fuente, The Good Boss
Jorge Motos, Lucas
Tarik Rmili, The Good Boss
Chechu Salgado, Outlaws

Best New Actress

Almudena Amor, The Good Boss
María Cerezuela, Maixabel
Ángela Cervantes, Girlfriends
Nicole García, Libertad

Best Original Screenplay

Ferando León de Aranoa, The Good Boss
Clara Roquet, Libertad
Icíar Bollaín and Isa Campo, Maixabel
Juanjo Jiménez Peña y Pere Altamira, Out of Sync

Best Adapted Screenplay

Júlia de Paz Solvas and Núria Dunjó López, Ama
Agustí Villaronga, The Belly of the Sea
Benito Zambrano and Cristina Campos, Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake
Daniel Monzón and Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Outlaws

Best Cinematography

Pau Esteve Birba, The Good Boss
Gris Jordana, Libertad
Kiko de la Rica, Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea
José Luis Alcaine, Parallel Mothers

Best Editing

Antonio Frutos, Below Zero
Vanessa L. Marimbert, The Good Boss
Miguel Doblado, Josefina
Nacho Ruiz Capillas, Maixabel

Best Art Direction

Cesar Macarrón, The Good Boss
Mikel Serrano, Maixabel
Balter Gallart, Outlaws
Antxon Gómez, Parallel Mothers

Best Production Design

Luis Gutiérrez, The Good Boss
Óscar Vigiola, Love Gets a Room
Guadalupe Balaguer Trelles, Maixabel
Albert Espel and Kostas Seakianakis, Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea

Best Costume Design

Fernando García, The Good Boss
Alberto Valcárcel, Love Gets a Room
Clara Bilbao, Maixabel
Vinyet Escobar, Outlaws

Best Makeup and Hairstyles

The Good Boss
Libertad
Maixabel
Outlaws

Best Original Score

Zeltia Montes, The Good Boss
Fátima Al Qadiri, The Grandmother
Alberto Iglesias, Maixabel
Arnau Bataller, Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea

Best Original Song

“Burst Out” by Àngel Leiro, Jean-Paul Dupeyron, Xavier Capellas – Álbum de posguerra
“Que me busquen por dentro” by Antonio Orozco, Jordi Colell Pinillos – The Cover
“Las leyes de la frontera” by Alejandro García Rodríguez, Antonio Molinero León, Daniel Escortell Blandino, José Manuel Cabrera Escot, Miguel García Cantero – Outlaws
“Te espera el mar” by Maria José Llergo – Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea

Best Sound

The Good Boss
Maixabel
Out of Sync
Parallel Mothers

Best Special Effects

The Good Boss
The Grandmother
Mediterraneo: The Law of the Sea
Way Down

Best Animated Film

Gora automatikoa
Mironins
Salvar el árbol (Zutik!)
Valentina

Best Documentary

Heroes. Silence and Rock and Roll
The Return: Life After ISIS
Quién lo impide
Tehran Blues

Best European Film

Bye, Bye Morons (Albert Dupontel)
I’m Your Man (Maria Schrader)
Another Round (Thomas Vinterberg)
Promising Young Woman (Emerald Fennell)

Best Latin American Film

The Cordillera of Dreams (Patricio Guzmán)
Los Lobos (Samuel Kishi)
The Siamese Bond (Paula Hernández)
Song Without a Name (Melina León)

Best Fictional Short Film

Farrucas
Mindanao
Tótem loba
Votamos
Yalla

Best Animated Short Film

Nacer
Proceso de selección
The Monkey
Umbrellas

Best Documentary Short Film

Dajla: cine y olvido
Figurante
Mama
Ulisses

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