The Goya Award for Best Actress (Spanish: Premio Goya a la mejor interpretación femenina protagonista) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards.
| Goya Award for Best Actress | |
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| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role |
| Country | Spain |
| Presented by | Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (AACCE) |
| First awarded | 1987 (for performance in films released during the 1986 film season) |
| Most recent winner | Blanca Portillo Maixabel (2021) |
| Website | www |
Since its inception, the award has been given to 26 actresses. At the 1st Goya Awards ceremony held in 1987, Amparo Rivelles was the first winner of this award for her role as Laura in We Must Undo the House. Carmen Maura has received the most awards in this category with three wins. Penélope Cruz was nominated on eleven occasions, winning two times.
As of the 2022 ceremony, Blanca Portillo is the most recent winner in this category for her role as Maixabel Lasa in Maixabel.
Winners and nomineesEdit
In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release; the ceremonies are always held the following year.
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1980sEdit
Amparo Rivelles was the first winner in this category for her performance in We Must Undo the House (1986).
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Carmen Maura won the most best actress awards, three, for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Ay, Carmela! (1990) and Common Wealth (2000)
Victoria Abril was nominated eight times and won once for her role in Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995)
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| Year | Actress | Role(s) | English title | Original title |
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| 1986 (1st) [1][2][3] |
Amparo Rivelles
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Laura | We Must Undo the House | Hay que deshacer la casa |
| Victoria Abril | Dorita | Time of Silence | Tiempo de silencio | |
| Ángela Molina | Rosa | Half of Heaven | La mitad del cielo | |
| 1987 (2nd) |
Verónica Forqué
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Ana | The Happy Life | La vida alegre |
| Victoria Abril | Chelo | El Lute: Run for Your Life | El lute: camina o revienta | |
| Irene Gutiérrez Caba | Bernarda Alba | The House of Bernarda Alba | La casa de Bernada Alba | |
| 1988 (3rd) |
Carmen Maura
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Pepa Marcos | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios |
| Victoria Abril | Ana Alonso | Baton Rouge | ||
| Ana Belén | Alejandra | Miss Caribe | ||
| María Fernanda d'Ocón | Sor Mercedes | Caminos de Tiza | ||
| Ángela Molina | Charo | Lights and Shadows | Luces y sombras | |
| 1989 (4th) |
Rafaela Aparicio
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Grandmother | The Sea and the Weather | El mar y el tiempo |
| Victoria Abril | Ramona / Menchu / Aurora Nin | If They Tell You I Fell | Si te dicen que caí | |
| Ana Belén | Paloma | The Flight of the Dove | El vuelo de la paloma | |
| Verónica Forqué | Chusa | Going South Shopping | Bajarse al moro | |
| Ángela Molina | Pepita | The Things of Love | Las cosas del querer | |
1990sEdit
2000sEdit
Penélope Cruz was nominated eleven times and won twice for The Girl of Your Dreams (1998) and Volver (2006)
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Maribel Verdú was nominated eight times and won twice for Seven Billiard Tables (2007) and Snow White (2012)
2010sEdit
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2020sEdit
| Year | Actress | Role(s) | English title | Original title |
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| 2020 (35th) [7][8][9] |
Patricia López Arnaiz | Lide | Ane Is Missing | Ane |
| Amaia Aberasturi | Ana | Coven | Akelarre | |
| Kiti Mánver | Lola | One Careful Owner | El inconveniente | |
| Candela Peña | Rosa | Rosa's Wedding | La boda de Rosa | |
| 2021 (36th) [10] |
Blanca Portillo | Maixabel Lasa | Maixabel | |
| Emma Suárez | Berta | Josephine | Josefina | |
| Petra Martínez | María | That Was Life | La vida era eso | |
| Penélope Cruz | Janis Martínez Moreno | Parallel Mothers | Madres paralelas | |
Multiple wins and nominationsEdit
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The following individuals received two or more Best Actress awards:
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The following individuals received three or more Best Actress nominations:
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ReferencesEdit
- ^ Alvarado, Esther (8 November 2013). "Muere la actriz Amparo Rivelles". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- ^ "Muere la actriz Amparo Rivelles a los 88 años". Radiotelevisión Española (in Spanish). 7 November 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- ^ "La actriz Amparo Rivelles muere a los 88 años". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 7 November 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- ^ "Emily Mortimer, la soldado de Coixet para romper la maldición de las nominadas extranjeras". ABC (in Spanish). February 3, 2018. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
- ^ "Najwa Nimri: "No esperaba estar nominada a los Goya"". Europa Press. Madrid. 15 January 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Nominaciones Premios Goya 2021". premiosgoya.com (in Spanish). 18 January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- ^ Ramachandran, Naman (18 January 2021). "Adu, Las Ninas, Akelarre Lead Spain's Goya Nominations". Variety. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ Roxborough, Scott; Szalai, Georg (18 January 2021). "Netflix Drama Leads Spain's Goya Awards Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- ^ "'El buen patrón' bate el récord histórico de los Goya con 20 nominaciones". RTVE (in Spanish). Retrieved November 29, 2021.