US EditionGoyas 2026: ‘Sundays,’ ‘Sirāt’ Sweep Spanish Academy Awards
Sundays earned four major awards for its portrayal of family and intolerance, while Sirāt dominated technical categories with an Oscar-nominated sound team, winning the most prizes overall.
- On Sunday at the 40th Spanish Academy Goya Awards, Sundays won best picture, director, actress Patricia López Arnaíz, and original screenplay, boosting its awards season momentum.
- Oliver Laxe's Sirât dominated technical categories, sweeping Saturday's ceremony with wins in cinematography, editing, production design, original music and sound.
- About 150 seconds into the ceremony, co-host Luis Tosar, wearing a Palestine pin, condemned `Gaza genocide`, prompting applause, while Joaquín Oristrell denounced denial of gender violence, climate change, invasions and deportations.
- The International Honorary Goya went to Susan Sarandon, who thanked Spanish President Pedro Sánchez and Spanish artists, quoting Howard Zinn: `To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic`.
- With Oscar voting in full swing, Sirât's Oscar-nominated all-female sound team—Laia Casanovas, Yasmina Praderas, and Amanda Villavieja—spent nine months on and off designing the sound, while Deaf emerged as the night's breakout.
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Last night was held the most important gala of Spanish cinema, that of the Goya Awards, which celebrated its 40th edition in Barcelona, at the International Convention Center of the city. An occasion that did not want to be missed directors, painters or actors and that ended with 'Los Domingos' as one of the great triumphants of the night. Of a very special evening that began with a big red carpet in which, like every year, there were certain gu…
Andrés Arconada, critic of Digital Freedom and esRadio, performs his chronicle of the gala of the Goya 2026 awards.
'Sirat', with 6 awards and 'Sundays', with 5 – including the best film – are the winning films of the Goya Awards.
Passing through the Avenida del Parallelo and hurriedly surrounding the paradoxical statue of Cristobal Colón that begins the journey along the coast, Barcelona welcomed us with a sky slightly erased by a conglomerate of clouds that would soon dissipate a pair of small pins of silvery, almost celestial light, as if a premonitory sign were and a verboretical taxi driver would configure us a timely sociocultural map of the current state of the cit…
Today, the Goya 2026 awards have been awarded by the Spanish Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences and have been presented in Barcelona, specifically at the Auditori of the Centre de Convencions Internacionals de la Ciudad Condal. The gala has been conducted by actor Luis Tosar and singer and songwriter Rigoberta Bandini (Paula Ribó).Predictable awards in general There were not many surprises as regards awards referred to. On Sundays he t…
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