Goya Awards: ‘The Good Boss’ Starring Bardem Big Wins Six Prizes. ‘The Good Boss’ or ‘El buen patrón’ directed by Fernando Leon de Aranoa is the big winner of the 36th Goya Awards, winning six prizes including Best Film, Director, and Best Actor for Javier Bardem.
The Spanish Film Academy celebrated the ceremony at the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofia in Valencia on February 12, 2022, where a film was notable to everyone because of its record number of nominations. The Good Boss appeared on the award night with 20 nominations and won six of them.
Goya Awards: ‘The Good Boss’ Starring Bardem Big Wins Six Prizes
The Good Boss earned the award for Best Picture, Best Director and Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Original Score, and Best Editing. Javier Bardem was honored for Best Actor and he tribute the award to his wife Penelope Cruz.
Bardem added in his acceptance speech, “I want to dedicate this award to Penelope who is the woman I love, respect, admire, and celebrate every day,” by addressing Penelope, who is in the audience.
Competing with Penelope Cruz, Blanca Portillo won the Best Actress of Goya Awards for her role in “Maixabel,” the real story of the widow of a politician who was assassinated by a group of terrorists. However, Cruz has another chance for winning the best actress for the Academy Awards. She has been nominated for her character in Pedro Almodovar’s “Parallel Mothers” and her husband, Javier Bardem will also compete for an Oscar for his role in “Being the Ricardos.”
The Good Boss: 6 Wins From 20 Nominations
The Spanish comedy film, The Good Boss wins Spain’s most prestigious Film Award, The Goya Awards for six categories. On November 29, 2021, the academy was nominated for many films and The Good Boss received 20 nominations at that time. The following are those winning categories among the 20 nominations:
- Best Film
- Best Director- Fernando Leon de Aranoa
- Best Actor- Javier Bardem
- Best Original Screenplay- Fernando Leon de Aranoa
- Best Editing- Vanessa L. Marimbert
- Best Original Score- Zeltia Montes
The Good Boss
The Good Boss, written and directed by Fernando Leon de Aranoa, is a Spanish comedy film and a corporate satire. In this film, Javier Bardem is featured in the role of Julio Blanco who is a character with solid gray dyed hair which is a perfect trump style too.
The film was produced by Reposado PC, the Mediapro Studio and Basculas Blanco AIE, with the participation of RTVE, TV3, and Orange. The character of Julio Blanco is a charming evil man and it is ironically titled “The Good Boss”. He is represented as the charismatic and manipulative boss of a family-running factory in the Spanish provincial town. The entire plot is about this man who interferes with the life of the employees in an attempt to win an award for business excellence.
Recently the film was shortlisted as one of Spain’s international Oscar nominees and got many fair reviews for mocking the corporates.
