The last 10 winners of the Goya for Best Film: what are they and on what platforms can you see them

On Saturday, February 12, the XXXV edition of the Goya Awards 2021. There are still several days left, although you are surely already thinking about who will win the award for Best Picture. To whet your appetite, we have drawn up a list with nothing more and nothing less than the winners of this long-awaited category in these awards for 10 years.

From dramas like There will be no peace for the wicked to comedies like Champions or thrillers where we find Late for anger or The minimal island, in this list There is something for everyone and the quality is guaranteed.

Once you’ve seen them and if you still have time, you can enjoy the ones nominated for these Goyas on the Movistar+ platform (although its launch is expected throughout February).

This year, The good patron of Fernando León de Aranoa makes history with 20 nominations in the Goya. Other nominated films are Parallel Mothers, Maixabel and Libertad.

List with the 10 winning films of the Goya for Best Film:

There will be no peace for the wicked (winner in 2011)

This film, directed by Enrique Urbizu, tells us the story of police inspector Santos Trinidad, who on his way home and very drunk, is involved in a triple murder. However, a witness who witnesses the scene escapes and could incriminate the protagonist.

Santos Trinidad begins the manhunt and undertakes an investigation aimed at locating and eliminating the witness. Meanwhile, the judge, in charge of the investigation of the triple crime, advances in the search for the murderer.

This film was made with this award, among others. It was nominated for 14 Goyas and finally won 6, among which are also Best Direction, Best Editing and Best Leading Actor (José Coronado).

If you want to enjoy this great movie you have it completely available on prime video.

Snow White (winner in 2012)

Silent, black and white film based on Snow White (the classic by the Grimm brothers), we find this version by director Pablo Berguer.

This story places us in the 1920s, in which we find Carmen, an unfortunate girl (Macarena García) who can no longer live under the same roof as her cruel and perverse stepmother (Maribel Verdú).

After a miserable and uncaring childhood, the time has come to run away from home. Accompanied by her new friends, the dwarfs, she embarks on a career in show business through the bullrings of Spain.

the snow white movie was the great winner of the Goya Awards with 10 awards. In addition to the award for Best Film, Snow White took the awards for actress, revelation actress and original screenplay, and six other technical awards (photography, original music and song, costumes…).

Enjoy this jewel of Spanish cinema in Movistar+.

Living Is Easy With Your Eyes Closed (Winner 2013)

In 1996, the artist John Lennon decided to withdraw from the group The Beatles and convinced of being able to embark on a career as an actor, he arrives in Almería to shoot a film.

Our protagonist, Antonio (Javier Cámara), an unconditional fan of this group and an English teacher in Albacete, who uses the songs of the Beatles to teach, decides to undertake the trip to meet him and make a request. Along the way you will meet some characters with great stories.

David Trueba’s film won 6 Goya awards out of the 7 for which it was nominated. If you want to see it, we leave you the link to Disney+.

The Minimal Island (Winner 2014)

Summer of 1980, Juan and Pedro are two homicide police officers from Madrid, with totally opposite ideologies, who are filed and punished by moving to a remote and forgotten town in the Guadalquivir marshes to investigate the disappearance and brutal murder of two girls teenagers during the holidays.

La Isla Mínima stars Javier Gutiérrez and Raúl Arévalo, developing a film that mixes drama and police thriller.

Among the awards that La Isla Mínima won after its premiere, we found endless Goyas. We highlight, apart from Best Film, Best Director, Best Leading Actor for Javier Gutiérrez, Best Original Screenplay or Best Costume Design.

You can currently find this movie on Netflix. Accede to this link and enjoy it.

Truman (winner in 2015)

Julián receives an unexpected visit from his friend Tomás who lives in Canada. The two friends together with Truman, their dog, will share emotional moments over four intense days and surprising, caused by the difficult situation that Julián is going through.

Is film directed by Ces Gay, is touching, with feelings on the surface and that, in addition to talking about illness and death, focuses on unconditional friendship, respectful of the other’s decisions.

I was nominated for 6 Goyas and finally won 5, with the two protagonists as winners in their respective categories, (Javier Cámara and Ricardo Darín). can you see her en HBO Max.

Too Late for Anger (Winner 2016)

We find ourselves before a harsh, realistic thriller with a great deal of violence, in which he tells us the story of Curro (Luis Callejo), who after being imprisoned eight years earlier for the robbery of a jewelry store, his wife Ana, pick up.

On the other hand we have the character of José, played by Antonio de la Torre, who frequents the bar before Curro is released from prison, where Ana works as a waitress. They begin to see each other frequently and establish a love relationship. With this as a base and many more things in between, a powerful story is built that surprises and maintains attention.

It is the first film by Raúl Arévalo, who has already participated in other films before, but as an actor. Of the 11 Goyas for which he was nominated, he won 4, among which is included the Best New Director. You have it available on Netflix.

The bookstore (winner in 2017)

Directed by Isabel Coixet, this work is adapted from Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel of the same name about a woman who loves to read and tries to open the first bookstore in a British seaside town.

The cast is one of the strong points of the play. from the director, with Emily Mortimer, who will give life to Florence Green, who will embark on opening a bookstore as a tribute to her late husband, with whom she shared her passion for reading.

The bookstore is the story of a woman alone facing the world and the plot is as simple as it is effective. This drama just got 3 of the 12 Goya nominations. However, it won great prizes such as Best Film, Best Adapted Screenplay and of course, Best Direction.

Enjoy it on Netflix from the following link that we provide you.

Champions (winner in 2018)

Marco is the assistant coach of a basketball team in the Spanish first division. You have problems at work, with your partner and with almost everything around you. One day, in the middle of the game, these frustrations lead to a tremendous row with the head coach, which leads to a drunken rage and this to a traffic accident.

The sentence will take you to coach a very special basketball team, made up of people with intellectual disabilities, at the same time that he loses his job and breaks up his relationship with his partner.

Almost unexpectedly for Marco himself, he will be the one who really learns from his adventure with a team where the desire to live prevails and gives importance to the things that really have it.

This great comedy directed by Javier Fresser, won 3 Goyas out of the 11 for which it was nominated: Best Movie, Best Newcomer (Jesús Vidal) and Best Original Song. Don’t miss it and enjoy it on Disney+.

Pain and glory (winner in 2019)

Pedro Almodóvar delights us again with his new film, Pain and Glory. With a cast that only he is capable of bringing together, he presents us with the story of filmmaker Salvador Mallo, who lives in the midst of an existential, emotional and physical crisis.

The protagonist, who suffers from various illnesses and pains, constantly remembers chapters of his past history, of his childhood in a small town in Valencia, bringing to the present stories of his childhood and also of his adult life, remembering his first successful film, his first and great love, his relationship of admiration towards the cinema… etc.

And it is that pain and glory is one autobiography of the director from La Mancha Pedro Almodóvar. In the film, through his alter ego Salvador, he exposes himself to the general public, this time not only as an artist, but also as a human being.

It was made with a whopping 7 Goyas, of the 16 to which it was nominated. Netflix has the power and you can see it on their platform.

The Girls (winner in 2020)

Finally we have this work, winner of the last award for Best Film at the Goya 2020. Pilar Palomero’s debut feature, Las Niñas, has been a revelation for Spanish cinema.

Celia is 11 years old and attends a religious school in a provincial city in Spain in the early 1990s. This girl, with the help of her friends, will break with childhood to give way to adolescence in an environment with certain restrictions inherited from a past of repression that is now obsolete.

It was nominated for 9 Goyas and finally won 4, including Best New Director or Best Original Screenplay. In Movistar + you have it available.

Once we have reviewed the 10 great successes of Spanish cinema from the past Goya awards, we still have to know what will happen at the next gala on February 12. The award ceremony will take place in the Palace of the Arts of Valencia.

Among the novelties, they have announced that the great night of Spanish cinema will not have a single presenter or a couple of presenters, but that there will be several well-known figures from the cinema who will lead the ceremony.

Luis García Berlanga will have a special role. This is how the Berlanga Year closes with which the Academy has commemorated the centenary of the honorary president of the institution.

This year’s nominees for Best Picture are: the good boss (Fernando León de Aranoa); Freedom (Clara Roquet); Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar); Maixabel (Iciar Bollaín) and Mediterráneo (Marcel Barrena).

We will have to wait to see what finally happens and who wins the long-awaited award for Best Picture.