The Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film (Spanish: Goya a la Mejor Película Iberoamericana), formerly the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film (Spanish: Goya a la Mejor Película Extranjera de Habla Hispana, 1987–2008) and the Goya Award for Best Hispanic American Film (Spanish: Goya a la Mejor Película Hispanoamericana, 2009–2010), is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. The category has been presented ever since the first edition of the Goya Awards with the exception of the third edition where it was not awarded. Carlos Sorín's A King and His Movie was the first winner of this award representing Argentina.
| Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Ibero-American Film |
| Country | Spain |
| Presented by | Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (AACCE) |
| Currently held by | The Eternal Memory – Chile (2023) |
| Website | premiosgoya |
The submission of a film to this category in representation of Portugal is not compatible with a submission of said film to the Best European Film award category.[1] Regarding the films with both a Spanish share and a (non-Spanish) Ibero-American share of the production, leading producers are required to choose between opting for this category or the Best Film category.[1]
Winners and nominees
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Argentina has received the most awards and nominations in this category with 19 wins and 30 nominations, Chile follows the most wins with 6 while Mexico and Chile follow the most nominations with 21. Goya winning films The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), A Fantastic Woman (2017) and Roma (2018) have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film representing Argentina, Chile and Mexico respectively, with the latter also being nominated for Best Picture and winning Best Director.
Argentine director Eduardo Mignogna is the most awarded director in this category, winning for Autumn Sun (1996), The Lighthouse (1998) and La fuga (2001), while the most nominated directors in this category are Peruvian director Francisco José Lombardi, nominated for Fallen from Heaven (1990), Without Compassion (1994), Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (2000) and Black Butterfly (2007) and Chilean director Andrés Wood, nominated for Machuca (2004), The Good Life (2008), Violeta Went to Heaven (2011) and Spider (2019), with four nominations each.
Notes
edit- The winner in each year is shown with a blue background and in bold.
- † – indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
- ‡ – indicates a nominee that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
1980s
edit| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 (1st) [2] |
A King and His Movie | La película del rey | Carlos Sorín |  Argentina
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| Pequeña revancha | Olegario Barrera |  Venezuela
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| A Time to Die | Tiempo de morir | Jorge Alí Triana |  Colombia
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| 1987 (2nd) |
Life Is Most Important | Lo que importa es vivir | Luis Alcoriza |  Mexico
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| Man Facing Southeast | Hombre mirando al sudeste | Eliseo Subiela | Argentina
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| A Successful Man | Un hombre de éxito | Humberto Solás |  Cuba
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| 1988 (3rd) |
Not awarded | |||
| 1989 (4th) |
The Beauty of the Alhambra | La bella del Alhambra | Enrique Pineda Barnet | Cuba
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| Aventurera | Pablo de Barra | Venezuela
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1990s
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2000s
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editAwards by country
edit| Country | Awards | Nominations |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina |
19 | 30 |
 Chile |
6 | 21 |
| Cuba |
4 | 19 |
| Mexico |
3 | 21 |
 Uruguay |
2 | 8 |
| Colombia |
1 | 13 |
| Venezuela |
1 | 11 |
 Peru |
1 | 8 |
 Bolivia |
0 | 2 |
 Costa Rica |
0 | 1 |
 Ecuador |
0 | 1 |
 Guatemala |
0 | 1 |
 Paraguay |
0 | 1 |
 Portugal |
0 | 1 |
 Puerto Rico |
0 | 1 |
References
edit- ^ a b "Premios Goya 2020. Bases" (PDF). 2020. Retrieved 17 February 2020.
- ^ Comentario sociológico. Dirección de Estudios Sociales de la Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros. 1987. p. 224.
- ^ AFP (February 3, 2018). ""Una mujer fantástica", gana Goya a mejor película iberoamericana". El Espectador. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- ^ "Premios Goya 2019: lista completa de ganadores". eldiario.es (in Spanish). February 4, 2019. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
- ^ "Premios Goya 2021: consulta aquí la lista completa de ganadores". eldiario.es (in Spanish). Retrieved March 7, 2021.
- ^ "'El buen patrón' bate el récord histórico de los Goya con 20 nominaciones". RTVE (in Spanish). 29 November 2021. Retrieved November 29, 2021.
- ^ "Nominaciones a los Premios Goya 2023, en directo: estos son los nominados". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 1 December 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ "38.ª edición de los Premios Goya - 2024 - Mejor película iberoamericana". www.premiosgoya.com. Retrieved 30 November 2023.