Goya Award for Best New Director | |
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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 |
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.
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.
Year | Director(s) | English title | Original title |
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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 |
Year | Director(s) | English title | Original title |
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2020 (35th) [5] |
Pilar Palomero | Schoolgirls | Las niñas |
David Pérez Sañudo | Ane Is Missing | Ane | |
Bernabé Rico | One Careful Owner | El inconveniente | |
Núria Giménez Lorang | My Mexican Bretzel | ||
2021 (36th) [6][7] |
Clara Roquet | Libertad | |
Carol Rodríguez Colás | 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 | The Water | El agua | |
Juan Diego Botto | On the Fringe | En los márgenes | |
Mikel Gurrea | 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 | Matria | ||
Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vasquez | Upon Entry | ||
Alejandro Marín | Love & Revolution | Te estoy amando locamente |
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.