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GOYAS 2014

Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed is the main winner at the Goya Awards

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- David Trueba’s bittersweet comedy and Witching & Bitching, by Álex de la Iglesia, win big at the Goya Awards ceremony, which took place last night in Madrid

Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed is the main winner at the Goya Awards
David Trueba

Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed [+see also:
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, by David Trueba, and Witching & Bitching [+see also:
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, by Álex de la Iglesia, were the two big winners at the Goya Awards ceremony, which took place last night (9 February) in Madrid. The former stood out because it received the two main awards (Best Film and Best Director) and because of how it cleaned up (it won six out of the seven awards that it was competing for, including Best Original Screenplay and Best Leading Actor). The second was notable for the total number of awards it received: eight, primarily for technical roles (Best Artistic Direction, Best Wardrobe Design, Best Editor, Best Sound, Best Production Manager, Best Special Effects, and Best Make-up and Hair). 

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The Goya ceremony met expectations politically speaking, as was natural following the virtually undercover harassment that has plagued the sector thanks to the actions of the current government. The latest affront was the absence of the Culture Minister, José Ignacio Wert, for as-yet undisclosed reasons, which the actor Javier Bardem dubbed an act of “insolence”.

Non-film-related matters aside, the ceremony was an opportunity to award a first Goya to an actor who has managed to successfully make the transition from television to cinema (a process that always arouses suspicion) and has now become one of the most popular and famous Spanish stars, Javier Cámara (winning Best Actor for Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed). In the female category, the Best Actress Award went to Marian Álvarez for her work in another of the year’s revelations, Fernando Franco’s drama Wounded [+see also:
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, which also won the Best New Director Award.

The firm favourite, at least in terms of the number of nominations it had in the run-up to the event, Daniel Sánchez Arévalo’s La gran familia española [+see also:
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, had to make do with two prizes: Best Supporting Actor for Roberto Álamo and Best Original Song.

In his speech, the president of the Academia de Cine (the Spanish Film Academy), Enrique González Macho, who knows better than anyone about the effects of the financial crisis and the government's activity in the sector (read more), pointed out: “Today, making a film is a heroic act.”

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(Translated from Spanish)

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