23rd Goya Awards

The 23rd Goya Awards honouring the best in Spanish filmmaking of 2008 were presented on 1 February 2009 at the Madrid's Palacio Municipal de Congresos.^[1][2] The gala was hosted by Carmen Machi, also featuring Muchachada Nui.^[2]

23rd Goya Awards
Date	February 1, 2009
Site	Palacio Municipal de Congresos de Madrid
Hosted by	Carmen Machi
Highlights
Best Film	Camino
Best Actor	Benicio del Toro Che (Part I): The Argentine
Best Actress	Carme Elías Camino
Most awards	Camino (6)
Most nominations	The Blind Sunflowers (15)
Television coverage
Network	TVE
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Camino was the big winner of the night, winning 6 awards out 7 nominations, including Best Film, Actress, Director and Original Screenplay.^[3][4][5][2]

Winners and nominees

The winners and nominees are listed as follows:^[6][7]

Major awards

Best Film Camino The Blind Sunflowers Just Walking The Oxford Murders	Best Director Javier Fesser – Camino Agustín Díaz Yanes – Just Walking José Luis Cuerda – The Blind Sunflowers Álex de la Iglesia – The Oxford Murders
Best Actor Benicio del Toro – Che (Part I): The Argentine Diego Luna – Just Walking Raúl Arévalo – The Blind Sunflowers Javier Cámara – Chef's Special	Best Actress Carme Elías – Camino Maribel Verdú – The Blind Sunflowers Verónica Echegui – My Prison Yard Ariadna Gil – Just Walking
Best Supporting Actor Jordi Dauder – Camino Fernando Tejero – Chef's Special José Ángel Egido – The Blind Sunflowers José María Yazpik – Just Walking	Best Supporting Actress Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona Elvira Mínguez – Cowards Rosana Pastor – The El Escorial Conspiracy Tina Sáinz – Blood in May
Best Original Screenplay Camino – Javier Fesser Return to Hansala – Chus Gutiérrez, Juan Carlos Rubio [es] Ashes of Heaven [fr] – Ignacio del Moral [es], Dionisio Pérez Galindo, José Antonio Quirós [es] Just Walking – Agustín Díaz Yanes	Best Adapted Screenplay The Blind Sunflowers – Rafael Azcona, Jose Luis Cuerda Che (Part I): The Argentine – Peter Buchman The Oxford Murders – Jorge Guerricaechevarría, Álex de la Iglesia One Word from You – Ángeles González Sinde
Best New Actor El Langui – The One-Handed Trick Martiño Rivas – The Blind Sunflowers Luis Bermejo – One Word from You Álvaro Cervantes – The Hanged Man	Best New Actress Nerea Camacho – Camino Esperanza Pedreño [es] – One Word from You Farah Hamed [ca] – Return to Hansala Ana Wagener – My Prison Yard
Best Spanish Language Foreign Film The Good Life • Chile/Spain/Argentina Acné • Uruguay/Spain/Argentina Dog Eat Dog • Colombia Lake Tahoe • Mexico/United States/Japan	Best European Film 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days • Romania The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (film) • UK The Dark Knight • UK The Edge of Heaven • Germany
Best New Director Santiago A. Zannou – The One-Handed Trick Irene Cardona [ca] – A Fiancé for Yasmina Belén Macías [es] – My Prison Yard Nacho Vigalondo – Timecrimes	Best Animated Film Missing Lynx RH+, el vampiro de Sevilla [es] Donkey Xote Spirit of the Forest

Other award nominees

Best Cinematography Just Walking – Paco Femenia [ca] The El Escorial Conspiracy – Carlos Suárez The Blind Sunflowers – Hans Burmann [es] Blood in May – Félix Monti	Best Editing The Oxford Murders – Alejandro Lázaro [ca] Mortadelo and Filemon. Mission: Save the Planet – Iván Aledo [ca] The Blind Sunflowers – Nacho Ruiz Capillas [ca] Just Walking – José Salcedo
Best Art Direction Che (Part I): The Argentine – Antxón Gómez [es] The Blind Sunflowers – Balter Gallart [ca] Blood in May – Gil Parrondo La Conjura de El Escorial – Luis Vallés "Koldo" [ca]	Best Production Supervision The Oxford Murders – Rosa Romero Che (Part I): The Argentine – Cristina Zumárraga [es] The Blind Sunflowers – Emiliano Otegui [es] Just Walking – Rafael Cuervo, María Pedraza
Best Sound Before the Fall – Jorge Marín, Maite Rivera, Daniel de Zayas The Blind Sunflowers – Ricardo Steinberg, María Steinberg, Alfonso Raposo Blood in May – Miguel Rejas, José Antonio Bermúdez Just Walking – Pierre Gamet, Christophe Vingtrinier, Patrice Grisolet	Best Special Effects Mortadelo and Filemon. Mission: Save the Planet – Alex Grau, Chema Remacha, Eduardo Díaz, Pau Costa, Raúl Romanillos, Jose Quetglás Camino – Arturo Balseiro, Ferrán Piquer, Raúl Romanillos Blood in May – Alberto Nombela, Juan Ramón Molina Just Walking – Alejandro Vázquez, Rafa Solórzano, Reyes Abades
Best Costume Design El Greco – Lala Huete [es] The Blind Sunflowers – Sonia Grande The El Escorial Conspiracy – Javier Artiñano Blood in May – Lourdes de Orduña [ca]	Best Makeup and Hairstyles Mortadelo and Filemon. Mission: Save the Planet – Jose Quetglás, Mar Paradela, Nieves Sánchez La Conjura de El Escorial – José Quetglás, Nieves Sánchez The Blind Sunflowers – Fermín Galán, Sylvie Imbert Blood in May – Alicia López, Josefa Morales, Romana González
Best Original Score The Oxford Murders – Roque Baños The Hanged Man – Bingen Mendizábal [ca] The Blind Sunflowers – Lucio Godoy Che (Part I): The Argentine – Alberto Iglesias	Best Original Song "A tientas" by Woulfrank Zannou, El Langui – The One-Handed Trick "Podemos volar juntos" by Raul Sánchez Zafra, Juan Pablo Compaired – My Prison Yard "Manousal" by Tao Gutiérrez – Retorno a Hansala "Entre tu balcón y mi Ventana" by Toni Zenet, Javier Laguna, José Taboada – One Word from You
Best Fictional Short Film Miente El Encargado Final Machu-Pichu Porque Hay Cosas Que Nunca Se Olvidan	Best Animated Short Film La increíble historia del hombre sin sombra El ataque de los kriters asesinos Espagueti Western Malacara y el misterio del bastón de roble Rascal's Street
Best Documentary Film Bucarest, la memoria perdida El pollo, el pez y el cangrejo real El último truco. Emilio Ruiz del Río Old Man Bebo	Best Documentary Short Film Héroes. No hacen falta alas para volar Harraga La clase Soy Meera Malik

Honorary Goya

• Jesús Franco

References

1. "Gala de la 23 edición · 2009". Premios Goya (in Spanish).
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4. Pamela Rolfe, AP (February 1, 2009). ""Camino" leads Goya Awards with six nods". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved October 9, 2020.
5. Rolfe, Pamela (February 2, 2009). ""Camino" tops Spain's Goya Awards". es.reuters.com. Reuters. Archived from the original on October 10, 2020. Retrieved October 9, 2009.
6. "Estos son las nominaciones de los Premios Goya 2009". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 11 April 2023.
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