She arrived as the great favorite of the night, and took the main prize: the good bossthe tragicomedy about capitalism and the excesses of an unscrupulous boss of Fernando Leon de Aranoawon this Saturday Goya for the best film of the year Spanish cinema.
Fulfilling the forecasts, the film prevailed over maixabel -directed by Iciar Bollain and another of the most outstanding films of this edition—, Parallel Mothersfrom Pedro Almodovarwho did not get any prize, Libertyfrom the novel Clara RochetY Mediterraneanfrom Marcel Barrena.
The universe meticulously constructed by Fernando Leon de Aranoa around Scales Whitea provincial company managed by an invasive boss and willing to do anything to achieve his goals, had already achieved the record of 20 nominations, unseating numbered daysfrom Imanol Uribewhich had accumulated 19 in 1994.
The barrage of nominations was finally reduced to six awards —including best director, leading actor for Javier Bardem and best original screenplay—which, however, allowed it to finish the night as the most successful film of this 36th edition of the Goya Awards.
The success of the gala held in Valencia, which is the second time that a film directed by Ferdinand Leon is distinguished as the best of the year, helps to dispel the disappointment of Tuesday, when the film was left out of the five shortlisted to compete for the Oscar for best international film.
It also marks the closing of a circle that began in 2002, when the then-promising director from Madrid chose Javier Bardem to be Santa, the charismatic unemployed man in a decadent city who starred in the drama Mondays in the sun.
Also on that occasion they won the awards for best film, direction and leading actor, among the five they gathered.
“There was nothing planned. The story comes naturally. In fact, I started with this story years ago, I left it, I picked it up again… But it is true that the connections do arise and it is true that this film has something of gloomy reverse of that one”, affirmed the director from Madrid in an interview with the newspaper The world.
