Carlos Saura will receive the Goya of Honor 2023

The Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has chosen the legendary director Carlos Saura will receive the Goya of Honor 2023, a recognition that personalities like Ana Belén, Marisa Paredes, Narciso Ibáñez Serrador, Marisol, Ángela Molina and José Sacristán have accepted in recent years. He will collect the award at the gala on 11 February at the FIBES Congress and Exhibition Center in Seville.

With a career spanning over 60 years and the author of a handful of Spanish film masterpieces, the Aragonese will receive the highest award from the Film Academy on February 11 in Seville.

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The Board of Directors, chaired by Fernando Méndez-Leite and also composed of Rafael Portela and Susi Sánchez, Javier Balaguer and Valérie Delpierre, among others, chose Saura unanimously “for his vast and highly personal creative contribution to the history of Spanish cinema from the late 1950s to today”.

The announcement was made as part of the Spanish Cinema Day, an event attended by the veteran director’s children, Antonio Saura and Anna Saura, who read a poster written by the director: “I have been lucky in life doing what attracted me the most: I have directed cinema, theater, opera and I have drawn, photographed and painted all my life, and I hope to continue to do so. With great joy and gratitude I receive this award that was awarded to me by the Academy, which I also want to thank for the great work it does in promoting and protecting our cinema and our culture, which is one of the most important things we have “.. Saura directed her first short film in 1957, her first documentary in 1958 and her first feature film, ‘Los golfos’, in 1960. Her latest film to date, ‘Walls Talk’, was presented at the 70th edition. of the San Sebastian Festival, but is also rehearsing a new show at the moment. He is 90 years old and nothing stops him, even if he was unable to attend the award for having suffered a small fall.

great multifaceted

Besides being a director, Saura is a writer, photographer, cartoonist, theater director and lover of musicals. She already has two Goyas for ‘Ay, Carmela!’ (for best director and best adapted screenplay shared with Rafael Azcona), a BAFTA for ‘Carmen’, a Golden Bear in Berlin for ‘Deprisa, depressisa’ and two silver ones for ‘Peppermint Frappé’ and ‘La Caza ‘(these to address). He also received awards in Cannes (for ‘Carmen’, ‘Cría cuervos’ and ‘La prima Angélica’), in San Sebastián (for ‘Mamá is 100 years old’ and the short film ‘Cuenca’) and was nominated 3 times in Venice . His filmography includes more than 50 titles with worldwide repercussions and he has worked with Elías Querejeta, Emiliano Piedra, Andrés Vicente Gómez, Luis Buñuel, Paco de Lucía y Camarón, Vittorio Storaro, Antonio Gades and Emiliano Piedra, among many other great names in culture . inside and outside our borders.

In her own words transferred from the Academy in a press release, Saura, who does not believe in genres, believes she has only made three types of films: “The first would be a down-to-earth cinema, with a concrete reality like ‘Los golfos’, ‘La Caza’, ‘Deprisa, depressisa’; others more creative like ‘La prima Angélica’, and then the more musical. I have dealt with many artists who have influenced me in my life, such as Goya, authors of Spanish literature, and which are a kind of personal essays “. Saura has also written four novels and six photography books, directed four plays and several versions of Georges Bizet’s opera ‘Carmen’, as well as an adaptation of ‘Don Giovanni’.