All the nominees for the 2026 Goya awards | Goya Awards | Cinema

The race for the 2026 Goya Awards took a new step this Tuesday with the announcement of the nominees for the 40th edition. The actress Toni Acosta and the actor and producer Arturo Valls were in charge of revealing the candidates for the most important awards in the Spanish film industry, which will be awarded on February 28 in Barcelona. After 25 years, the film festival returns to the Catalan capital, this time at the Auditori Forum CCIB, in a ceremony in which titles such as Sundays, with 13 nominations or the acclaimed Sirât, con 11.

The list of most nominated feature films is followed by Maspalomas with nine; Dinner with eight; Deaf, The Captive y The tigers with seven; Pilgrimage with six; and City without sleep with five. In this edition of the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, 218 Spanish films released between January 1 and December 31, 2025 were selected. Of these productions, 122 are fiction, 87 are documentaries and 9 are animation, while 67 are debut films. As for the scripts, 129 are original and 42 adapted. 18 European and 15 Ibero-American films also participated. The list of short films that may be nominated amounts to 48.

Best Movie

Best Address

Best Leading Actress

Best Leading Actor

Best Supporting Actress

Best Supporting Actor

Best Ibero-American Film

Best New Actor

Best New Actress

Best New Director

• Ion de Sosa, by Balearic
• Jaume Claret Muxart, by strange river
• Gemma Blanco, by In anger
• Gerard Oms, port Very far
• Eve freedom, for Deaf

Best Original Screenplay

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Guillermo Galoe and Víctor Alonso-Berbel, for City without sleep
• Celia Rico Clavellino, by The good letter
• Joaquín Oristrell, Manuel Gómez Pereira and Yolanda García Serrano, for Dinner
• Carla Simón, by Pilgrimage
• Eva Libertad, by Deaf

Best Cinematography

• Ruis Poças, by City without sleep
• Beth Rourich, port Sundays
• Pau Esteve Birba, by The Tigers
• Javier Aguirre Erauso, for Maspalomas
• Mauro Herce, by Sirât

Best Assembly

• Victoria Lammers, by City without sleep
• Andrés Gil, for Sundays
• José MG Moyano, for The Tigers
• Cristóbal Fernández, by Sirât
• Bernat Vilaplana, por A ghost in battle

Best Original Music

• Carla F. Benedicto, by The talent
• Iván Palomares de la Encina, by Leo & Lou
• Julio de la Rosa, by The Tigers
• Aránzazu Calleja, by Maspalomas
• Kangding Ray, por Sirât

Best Original Song

• The Arepera by Paloma Peñarrubia Ruiz, by White roses fall!
• Flowers for Antonio by Alba Flores; Sílvia Pérez Cruz, for Flowers for Antonio
• Until I run out of voice of Leiva, for Until I run out of voice
• And meanwhile, song of Victor Manuel, by Dinner
• walk time by Blanda Paloma Ramos; José Pablo Polo, Luis Ivars, for Similar to a murder

Better Sound

• Aitor Berenguer; Gabriel Gutierrez Candela Palencia, by The captive
• Andrea Sáenz Pereiro; Mayte Cabrera, by Sundays
• Daniel de Zayas; Garbriel Gutiérrez; Candela Palencia, by The Tigers
• Amanda Villavieja Laia Casanovas Yasmina Praderas, by Sirât
• Urko Garai; Enrique G. Bermejo; Alejandro Castillo, for Deaf

Best Art Direction

• Juan Pedro de Gaspar, by The captive
• Koldo Vallés, by Dinner
• Pepe Domínguez del Olmo, by The Tigers
• Mikel Serrano, for Maspalomas
• Laia Ateca, by Sirât

Best Costume Design

• Nicoletta Tarata, por The captive
• Nerea Torrijos, by the night
• Helena Sanchis, by Dinner
• Ana Martínez Fesser, por Sundays
• Anna Aguilà, by Pilgrimage

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Ana López-Puigcerver, Belén López-Puigcerver; Nacho Díaz, by The captive
• Patricia Lopez; Paco Rodriguez H.; Nacho Diaz, by the night
• Sarai Rodríguez; David Moreno; Oscar del Monte, for The truce
• Karmele Soler; Sergio Pérez Berbel, por Maspalomas
• Zarai Eva Adén, by Sirât

Best Special Effects

• Cesar Moreno; Ana Rubio; Juanma Nogales, by Enemies
• Jon Serrano; Mariano García Marty; David Heras; Iñaki Gil, by the night
• Paula Gallifa Rubia; Ana Rubio, by The Tigers
• Pep Claret Benjamin Ageorges, by Sirât
• Jon Serrano; Mariano García Marty; Laura Pedro, for A ghost in battle

Best Production Management

• Antonello Novellino, por City without sleep
• Sergio Díaz Bermejo, for The captive
• Itziar García Zubiri, by Sundays
• Begoña Muñoz Corcuera, by The Tigers
• Oriol Maymó, por Sirât

Best Documentary Film

Best Animated Film

Best European Film

Best Fiction Short Film

• dead angle
• Sugar
• A Midsummer Night’s Tale
• Sex at 70
• a head on the wall

Best Documentary Short Film

• Dissonance
• The Saint
• The conversation we never had
• The Painter’s Room
• Their Zone

Best animated short film

• Buffet Paradise
• Carmela
• Rubén’s short
• The state of the soul
• Gilbert