Goya Award for Best New Director

The Goya Award for Best New Director (Spanish: Premio Goya a la Mejor Dirección Novel) is the Goya awarded yearly to the best debuting director. The award was first presented at the fourth edition of the Goya Awards with Ana Díez being the first winner for her film Ander eta Yul.

Goya Award for Best New Director
The 2024 recipient: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
Awarded for	Best Debuting Director
Country	Spain
Presented by	Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (AACCE)
Currently held by	Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren – 20,000 Species of Bees (2023)
Website	premiosgoya.com

Three directors have won this category and later have received the Best Director award, Alejandro Amenábar won for Tesis (1996) and went on to win Best Director twice, for The Others (2001) and The Sea Inside (2005); Fernando León de Aranoa won for Familia (1997) and later won Best Director thrice, for Barrio (1998), Mondays in the Sun (2002) and The Good Boss (2022); and Juan Antonio Bayona won for The Orphanage (2007) and went on to win Best Director twice, for The Impossible (2012) and A Monster Calls (2016).

Five films have won both this award and Best Film, Agustín Díaz Yanes's Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995), Alejandro Amenábar's Tesis (1996), Achero Mañas's Pellet (2000), Raúl Arévalo's The Fury of a Patient Man (2016) and Pilar Palomero's Schoolgirls (2020). Animator Enrique Gato became the first to historically win the award for an animated film with Tad, The Lost Explorer.

Winners and nominees

 

Ana Díez was the first winner of this award for Ander eta Yul (1989).

 

Isabel Coixet was nominated for Massa vell per morir jove (1989) and went on to win Best Director twice, for The Secret Life of Words (2005) and The Bookshop (2017).

 

Agustín Díaz Yanes won for Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995).

 

Alejandro Amenábar won for Tesis (1996) and went on to win Best Director twice, for The Others (2001) and The Sea Inside (2005).

 

Fernando León de Aranoa won for Familia (1997) and went on to win Best Director thrice, for Barrio (1998), Mondays in the Sun (2002) and The Good Boss (2022).

 

Ángeles González Sinde won for Sleeping Luck (2003).

 

Daniel Sánchez Arévalo won for DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2006).

 

Juan Antonio Bayona won for The Orphanage (2007) and went on to win Best Director twice, for The Impossible (2012) and A Monster Calls (2016).

 

Kike Maíllo won for Eva (2011).

 

Carlos Marqués-Marcet won for 10,000 km (2014).

 

Raúl Arévalo won for The Fury of a Patient Man (2016).

 

Carla Simón won for Summer 1993 (2017).

 

Belén Funes won for A Thief's Daughter (2019).

1980s

Year	Director(s)	English title	Original title
1989 (4th)	Ana Díez	Ander eta Yul
	Cristina Andreu	Brumal
	Isabel Coixet	Massa vell per morir jove
	Xavier Villaverde	Continental
	Teodoro Ríos and Santiago Ríos	Guarapo

1990s

Year	Director(s)	English title	Original title
1990 (5th)	Rosa Vergés	Boom Boom
	Paco Periñán	Against the Wind	Contra el viento
	José María Carreño	Ovejas negras
1991 (6th)	Juanma Bajo Ulloa	Butterfly Wings	Alas de mariposa
	Ana Belén	Cómo ser mujer y no morir en el intento
	Manuel Gómez Pereira	Salsa rosa
1992 (7th)	Julio Médem	Vacas
	Álex de la Iglesia	Acción mutante
	Chus Gutiérrez	Sublet
1993 (8th)	Mariano Barroso	My Soul Brother	Mi hermano del alma
	José Ángel Bohollo	Ciénaga
	Arantxa Lazcano	Los años oscuros
1994 (9th)	La Cuadrilla – Santiago Aguilar Alvear and Luis Guridi	Justino, un asesino de la tercera edad
	Héctor Carré	Dame lume
	Álvaro Fernández Armero	Todo es mentira
1995 (10th)	Agustín Díaz Yanes	Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead	Nadie hablará de nosotras cuando hayamos muerto
	Manuel Huerga	Antarctica	Antártida
	Icíar Bollaín	Hola, ¿estás sola?
1996 (11th)	Alejandro Amenábar	Tesis
	David Trueba	The Good Life	La buena vida
	Alfonso Albacete, Miguel Bardem and David Menkes	Not Love, Just Frenzy	Más que amor, frenesí
1997 (12th)	Fernando León de Aranoa	Familia
	Mireia Ros	La Moños
	David Alonso and Fernando Cámara	Memorias del ángel caído
1998 (13th)	Santiago Segura	Torrente, el brazo tonto de la ley
	Javier Fesser	The Miracle of P. Tinto	El milagro de P. Tinto
	Miguel Albaladejo	The First Night of My Life	La primera noche de mi vida
	Salvador García Ruiz [es]	Mensaka	Mensaka, páginas de una historia
1999 (14th)	Benito Zambrano	Solas
	Miguel Bardem	The Ugliest Woman in the World	La mujer más fea del mundo
	María Ripoll	The Man with Rain in His Shoes
	Mateo Gil	Nobody Knows Anybody	Nadie conoce a nadie

2000s

Year	Director(s)	English title	Original title
2000 (15th)	Achero Mañas	Pellet	El Bola
	Daniel Monzón	Heart of the Warrior	El corazón del guerrero
	Cesc Gay	Nico and Dani	Krámpack
	Patricia Ferreira	I Know Who You Are	Sé quién eres
2001 (16th)	Juan Carlos Fresnadillo	Intacto
	Víctor García León	No Pain, No Gain	Más pena que gloria
	Carlos Molinero [es]	Savages	Salvajes
	Javier Balaguer	Mine Alone	Solo mía
2002 (17th)	Julio Wallovits [ca] and Roger Gual [es]	Smoking Room
	Inés París [es] and Daniela Fejerman	My Mother Likes Women	A mi madre le gustan las mujeres
	Eduard Cortés	Nobody's Life	La vida de nadie
	Ramón Salazar	Stones	Piedras
2003 (18th)	Ángeles González Sinde	Sleeping Luck	La suerte dormida
	David Serrano	Football Days	Días de fútbol
	Jaime Rosales	The Hours of the Day	Las horas de día
	Pablo Berger	Torremolinos 73
2004 (19th)	Pablo Malo [eu]	Cold Winter Sun	Frío sol de invierno
	Santiago Amodeo	Astronauts	Astronautas
	Vicente Peñarrocha [ca]	Body Confusion	Fuera del cuerpo
	Ramón de España [es]	Kill Me Tender	Haz conmigo lo que quieras
2005 (20th)	José Corbacho and Juan Cruz	Tapas
	Asier Altuna and Telmo Esnal	Aupa Etxebeste!
	Guillem Morales	The Uninvited Guest	El habitante incierto
	Santiago Tabernero [es]	Life and Colour	Vida y color
2006 (21st)	Daniel Sánchez Arévalo	DarkBlueAlmostBlack	Azuloscurocasinegro
	Carlos Iglesias	Crossing the Border	Un franco, 14 pesetas
	Javier Rebollo [es]	Lola	Lo que sé de Lola
	Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo [es]	The Night of the Sunflowers	La noche de los girasoles
2007 (22nd)	Juan Antonio Bayona	The Orphanage	El orfanato
	Félix Viscarret [es]	Under the Stars	Bajo las estrellas
	Tomás Fernández [es]	Suso's Tower	La torre de Suso
	Tristán Ulloa and David Ulloa	Modesty	Pudor
2008 (23rd)	Santiago Zannou	The One-Handed Trick	El truco del manco
	Belén Macías [es]	My Prison Yard	El patio de mi cárcel
	Nacho Vigalondo	Timecrimes	Los cronocrímenes
	Irene Cardona [ca]	Un novio para Yasmina
2009 (24th)	Mar Coll [es]	Tres dies amb la família
	David Planell [es]	The Shame	La vergüenza
	Borja Cobeaga	Friend Zone	Pagafantas
	Antonio Naharro and Álvaro Pastor	Me, Too	Yo, también

2010s

Year	Director(s)	English title	Original title
2010 (25th)	David Pinillos [es]	Bon Appétit
	Emilio Aragón Álvarez	Paper Birds	Pájaros de papel
	Juana Macías [es]	Plans for Tomorrow	Planes para mañana
	Jonás Trueba	Every Song Is About Me	Todas las canciones hablan de mí
2011 (26th)	Kike Maíllo	Eva
	Paula Ortiz	Chrysalis	De tu ventana a la mía
	Paco Arango [es]	Maktub
	Eduardo Chapero-Jackson	Verbo
2012 (27th)	Enrique Gato	Tad, the Lost Explorer	Las aventuras de Tadeo Jones
	Paco León	Carmina or Blow Up	Carmina o revienta
	Isabel de Ocampo [es]	Evelyn
	Oriol Paulo	The Body	El cuerpo
2013 (28th)	Fernando Franco	Wounded	La herida
	Neus Ballús	La plaga [ca]
	Jorge Dorado	Mindscape
	Rodrigo Sorogoyen	Stockholm
2014 (29th)	Carlos Marqués-Marcet	10,000 km
	Juan Fernando Andrés [es] and Esteban Roel	Shrew's Nest	Musarañas
	Francisco Sánchez Varela	Paco de Lucía: La búsqueda
	Beatriz Sanchís [es]	They Are All Dead	Todos están muertos
2015 (30th)	Daniel Guzmán	Nothing in Return	A cambio de nada
	Dani de la Torre [gl]	Retribution	El desconocido
	Juan Miguel del Castillo [es]	Food and Shelter	Techo y comida
	Leticia Dolera	Requirements to Be a Normal Person	Requisitos para ser una persona normal
2016 (31st) ^[1]	Raúl Arévalo	The Fury of a Patient Man	Tarde para la ira
	Salvador Calvo	1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines	1898, Los últimos de Filipinas
	Marc Crehuet [es]	The One-Eyed King	El rey tuerto
	Nely Reguera [es]	María (and Everybody Else)	María (y los demás)
2017 (32nd) ^[2]	Carla Simón	Summer 1993	Estiu 1993
	Sergio G. Sánchez	Marrowbone	El secreto de Marrowbone
	Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo	Holy Camp!	La llamada
	Lino Escalera [ca]	Can't Say Goodbye	No sé decir adiós
2018 (33rd) ^[3]	Arantxa Echevarría	Carmen & Lola	Carmen y Lola
	Andrea Jaurrieta	Ana by Day	Ana de día
	César Esteban Alenda and José Esteban Alenda	Not the End	Sin fin
	Celia Rico Clavellino	Journey to a Mother's Room	Viaje al cuarto de una madre
2019 (34th) ^[4]	Belén Funes [es]	A Thief's Daughter	La hija de un ladrón
	Salvador Simó [ca]	Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles	Buñuel en el laberinto de las tortugas
	Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia	The Platform	El hoyo
	Aritz Moreno [es]	Advantages of Travelling by Train	Ventajas de viajar en tren

2020

 

Pilar Palomero won for Schoolgirls (2020).

 

Alauda Ruiz de Azúa won for Lullaby (2022)

Year	Director(s)	English title	Original title
2020 (35th) ^[5]	Pilar Palomero	Schoolgirls	Las niñas
	David Pérez Sañudo [es]	Ane Is Missing	Ane
	Bernabé Rico	One Careful Owner	El inconveniente
	Núria Giménez Lorang [ca]	My Mexican Bretzel [ca]
2021 (36th) ^[6]^[7]	Clara Roquet	Libertad
	Carol Rodríguez Colás [ca]	Girlfriends	Chavalas
	Javier Marco Rico	Josephine	Josefina
	David Martín de los Santos	That Was Life	La vida era eso
2022 (37th) ^[8]	Alauda Ruiz de Azúa	Lullaby	Cinco lobitos
	Carlota Pereda	Piggy	Cerdita
	Elena López Riera [ca]	The Water	El agua
	Juan Diego Botto	On the Fringe	En los márgenes
	Mikel Gurrea [eu]	Cork	Suro
2023 (38th) ^[9]	Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren	20,000 Species of Bees	20.000 especies de abejas
	Itsaso Arana	The Girls Are Alright	Las chicas están bien
	Álvaro Gago [gl]	Matria
	Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vasquez	Upon Entry
	Alejandro Marín	Love & Revolution	Te estoy amando locamente

Statistics

The following list is for Best New Director nominees and winners that went on to win or be nominated for Best Director. The times that the directors won either of the categories are in bold.

Director(s)	Best New Director	Best Director
Isabel Coixet	Massa vell per morir jove (1989)	My Life Without Me (2003) The Secret Life of Words (2005) Nobody Wants the Night (2015) The Bookshop (2017) It Snows in Benidorm (2020) Un amor (2023)
Juanma Bajo Ulloa	Butterfly Wings (1991)	The Dead Mother (1993) Baby (2020)
Manuel Gómez Pereira	Salsa rosa (1991)	Mouth to Mouth (1995)
Julio Médem	Vacas (1992)	Earth (1996) Sex and Lucia (2001)
Álex de la Iglesia	Acción mutante (1992)	The Day of the Beast (1995) Common Wealth (2000) The Oxford Murders (2008) The Last Circus (2010)
Manuel Huerga	Antarctica (1995)	Salvador (Puig Antich) (2006)
Icíar Bollaín	Hola, ¿estás sola? (1995)	Take My Eyes (2003) Mataharis (2007) Even the Rain (2010) Rosa's Wedding (2020) Maixabel (2021)
Alejandro Amenábar	Tesis (1996)	Open Your Eyes (1998) The Others (2001) The Sea Inside (2004) Agora (2009) While at War (2019)
David Trueba	The Good Life (1996)	Soldiers of Salamina (2003) Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013)
Fernando León de Aranoa	Familia (1997)	Barrio (1998) Mondays in the Sun (2002) A Perfect Day (2015) The Good Boss (2021)
Javier Fesser	The Miracle of P. Tinto (1998)	Camino (2008) Champions (2018)
Benito Zambrano	Solas (1999)	Solas (1999) Habana Blues (2005) The Sleeping Voice (2011)
Mateo Gil	Nobody Knows Anybody (1999)	Blackthorn (2011)
Daniel Monzón	Heart of the Warrior (2000)	Cell 211 (2009) El Niño (2014)
Cesc Gay	Nico and Dani (2000)	In the City (2003) Truman (2015)
Jaime Rosales	The Hours of the Day (2003)	Solitary Fragments (2007)
Pablo Berger	Torremolinos 73 (2003)	Blancanieves (2012)
Daniel Sánchez Arévalo	DarkBlueAlmostBlack (2006)	Family United (2013)
Juan Antonio Bayona	The Orphanage (2007)	The Impossible (2012) A Monster Calls (2016) Society of the Snow (2023)
Paula Ortiz	Chrysalis (2011)	The Bride (2015)
Rodrigo Sorogoyen	Stockholm (2013)	May God Save Us (2016) The Realm (2018) The Beasts (2022)
Salvador Calvo	1898, Our Last Men in the Philippines (2016)	Adú (2020)
Carla Simón	Summer 1993 (2017)	Alcarràs (2022)
Pilar Palomero	Schoolgirls (2020)	Motherhood (2022)

References

1. "Juan Antonio Bayona's 'A Monster Calls' Leads Goya Award Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. December 14, 2016. Retrieved January 25, 2017.
2. Blanes, Pepa (December 13, 2017). "'Handia' y 'La librería', lidera las nominaciones a los Goya". Cadena SER (in Spanish). Retrieved December 13, 2017.
3. "Todos los nominados a los Premios Goya 2019". El Mundo (in Spanish). December 11, 2017. Retrieved December 13, 2018.
4. Lang, Jamie (December 2, 2019). "'Pain and Glory,' 'While at War,' 'Endless Trench' Lead Goya Nominations". Variety. Retrieved December 2, 2019.
5. Belinchón, Gregorio (January 18, 2021). "'Adú', 'Akelarre' y 'Las niñas' lideran las nominaciones a los Goya 2021". El País. Retrieved January 18, 2021.
6. "'El buen patrón' bate el récord histórico de los Goya con 20 nominaciones". RTVE (in Spanish). Retrieved November 29, 2021.
7. Gajewski, Ryan (12 February 2022). "Spain's Goya Awards: Javier Bardem's 'The Good Boss' Named Best Picture". The Hollywood Reporter.
8. "Nominaciones a los Premios Goya 2023, en directo: estos son los nominados". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 1 December 2022. Retrieved 1 December 2022.
9. "Nominaciones Premios Goya 2024: todas las películas y actores nominados, en directo". El Confidencial (in Spanish). 30 November 2023. Retrieved 30 November 2023.

External links

• Official site
• IMDb: Goya Awards