The Goya Award for Best Director (Spanish: Premio Goya a la mejor dirección) 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. Fernando Fernán Gómez was the first winner of this award for his film Voyage to Nowhere.
| Goya Award for Best Director | |
|---|---|
 The 2024 recipient: J.A. Bayona | |
| Awarded for | Best Director of the Year |
| Country | Spain |
| Presented by | Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España |
| Currently held by | J. A. Bayona for Society of the Snow (2023) |
| Website | http://www.premiosgoya.com/ |
Pedro Almodóvar holds the record of most wins and nominations for this category, with three wins out of eleven nominations, winning for All About My Mother (1999), Volver (2006) and Pain and Glory (2019). Fernando León de Aranoa, who won for Barrio (1998), Mondays in the Sun (2002) and The Good Boss (2021), and J. A. Bayona, who won for The Impossible (2012), A Monster Calls (2015), and Society of the Snow (2023), share the record of most wins. Directors Fernando Trueba, Alejandro Amenábar, Isabel Coixet, and Rodrigo Sorogoyen have received this award twice.
In the list below the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.
Winners and nominees
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1980s
edit| Year | Director | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 (1st) [1][2] |
Fernando Fernán Gómez | Voyage to Nowhere | El viaje a ninguna parte |
| Emilio Martínez Lázaro | Lulu by Night | Lulú de noche | |
| Pilar Miró | Werther | ||
| 1987 (2nd) |
José Luis Garci | Course Completed | Asignatura aprobada |
| Bigas Luna | Anguish | Angustia | |
| Vicente Aranda | El Lute: Run for Your Life | El Lute: camina o revienta | |
| 1988 (3rd) |
Gonzalo Suárez | Rowing with the Wind | Remando al viento |
| Pedro Almodóvar | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios | |
| Ricardo Franco | Berlin Blues | Berlín Blues | |
| Antonio Mercero | Wait for Me in Heaven | Espérame en el cielo | |
| Francisco Regueiro | Winter Diary | Diario de invierno | |
| 1989 (4th) |
Fernando Trueba | Twisted Obsession | El sueño del mono loco |
| Vicente Aranda | If They Tell You I Fell | Si te dicen que caí | |
| Fernando Fernán Gómez | The Sea and the Weather | El mar y el tiempo | |
| Josefina Molina | Esquilache | ||
| Agustí Villaronga | Moon Child | El niño de la luna | |
1990s
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edit2020s
edit| Year | Director | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (35th) [9] |
Salvador Calvo | Adú | |
| Juanma Bajo Ulloa | Baby | ||
| Icíar Bollaín | Rosa's Wedding | La boda de Rosa | |
| Isabel Coixet | It Snows in Benidorm | Nieva en Benidorm | |
| 2021 (36th) [10][11] |
Fernando León de Aranoa | The Good Boss | El buen patrón |
| Manuel Martín Cuenca | The Daughter | La hija | |
| Icíar Bollaín | Maixabel | ||
| Pedro Almodóvar | Parallel Mothers | Madres paralelas | |
| 2022 (37th) [12] |
Rodrigo Sorogoyen | The Beasts | As bestas |
| Carla Simón | Alcarràs | ||
| Pilar Palomero | Motherhood | La maternal | |
| Carlos Vermut | Manticore | Mantícora | |
| Alberto Rodríguez | Prison 77 | Modelo 77 | |
| 2023 (38th) [13] |
J.A. Bayona | Society of the Snow | La sociedad de la nieve |
| Víctor Erice | Close Your Eyes | Cerrar los ojos | |
| Isabel Coixet | Un amor | ||
| David Trueba | Jokes & Cigarettes | Saben aquell | |
| Elena Martín | Creatura | ||
Multiple nominations
editThe following 35 directors have received multiple Best Director nominations.
| Name | Awards | Nominations |
|---|---|---|
| Pedro Almodóvar | 3 | 11 |
| Fernando León de Aranoa | 3 | 4 |
| J. A. Bayona | 3 | 3 |
| Isabel Coixet | 2 | 6 |
| Fernando Trueba | 2 | 5 |
| Alejandro Amenábar | 2 | 5 |
| Rodrigo Sorogoyen | 2 | 3 |
| Vicente Aranda | 1 | 6 |
| Icíar Bollaín | 1 | 5 |
| Alberto Rodríguez | 1 | 5 |
| José Luis Garci | 1 | 4 |
| Álex de la Iglesia | 1 | 4 |
| Pilar Miró | 1 | 3 |
| Imanol Uribe | 1 | 3 |
| David Trueba | 1 | 3 |
| Fernando Fernán Gómez | 1 | 2 |
| Ricardo Franco | 1 | 2 |
| Carlos Saura | 1 | 2 |
| Agustí Villaronga | 1 | 2 |
| Daniel Monzón | 1 | 2 |
| Cesc Gay | 1 | 2 |
| Javier Fesser | 1 | 2 |
| Montxo Armendáriz | 0 | 3 |
| Agustín Díaz Yanes | 0 | 3 |
| Emilio Martínez Lázaro | 0 | 3 |
| Gracia Querejeta | 0 | 3 |
| Benito Zambrano | 0 | 3 |
| Manuel Martín Cuenca | 0 | 3 |
| Adolfo Aristarain | 0 | 2 |
| José Luis Cuerda | 0 | 2 |
| Bigas Luna | 0 | 2 |
| Julio Medem | 0 | 2 |
| Aitor Arregi | 0 | 2 |
| Jon Garaño | 0 | 2 |
| Juanma Bajo Ulloa | 0 | 2 |
| Carlos Vermut | 0 | 2 |
References
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- ^ Zas Marcos, Mónica. "Dolor para Amenábar y gloria para Almodóvar en unos Goya 2020 que ignoraron a su niño mimado". eldiario.es. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
- ^ "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). Retrieved November 29, 2021.
- ^ Gajewski, Ryan (12 February 2022). "Spain's Goya Awards: Javier Bardem's 'The Good Boss' Named Best Picture". The Hollywood Reporter.
- ^ "Nominaciones a los Premios Goya 2023, en directo: estos son los nominados". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 1 December 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
- ^ "Nominaciones Premios Goya 2024: todas las películas y actores nominados, en directo". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 30 November 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2023.