Goya Award for Best Iberoamerican Film
The Goya Award for Best Iberoamerican Film (Spanish: Goya a la Mejor Película Iberoamericana), formerly the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film (Spanish: Goya a la Mejor Película Extranjera de Habla Hispana, 1987–2008) and the Goya Award for Best Hispanic American Film (Spanish: Goya a la Mejor Película Hispanoamericana, 2009–2010), is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. The category has been presented ever since the first edition of the Goya Awards with the exception of the third edition where it was not awarded. Carlos Sorín's A King and His Movie was the first winner of this award representing Argentina.
| Goya Award for Best Iberoamerican Film | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Iberoamerican Film |
| Country | Spain |
| Presented by | Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (AACCE) |
| Currently held by | The Cordillera of Dreams – Chile (2021) |
| Website | premiosgoya |
Winners and nominees
Argentina has received the most awards and nominations in this category with 18 wins and 28 nominations, Chile follows the most wins with five while Mexico follows the most nominations with 20. Goya winning films The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), A Fantastic Woman (2017) and Roma (2018) have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film representing Argentina, Chile and Mexico respectively, with the latter also being nominated for Best Picture and winning Best Director.
Argentine director Eduardo Mignogna is the most awarded director in this category, winning for Autumn Sun (1996), The Lighthouse (1998) and La fuga (2001), while the most nominated directors in this category are Peruvian director Francisco José Lombardi, nominated for Fallen from Heaven (1990), Without Compassion (1994), Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (2000) and Black Butterfly (2007) and Chilean director Andrés Wood, nominated for Machuca (2004), The Good Life (2008), Violeta Went to Heaven (2011) and Spider (2019), with four nominations each.
Notes:
- The winner in each year is shown with a blue background and in bold.
- † – indicates the winner of the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
- ‡ – indicates a nominee that was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
1980s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 (1st) [1] | A King and His Movie | La película del rey | Carlos Sorín |  Argentina |
| Pequeña revancha | Olegario Barrera |  Venezuela | ||
| A Time to Die | Tiempo de morir | Jorge Alí Triana |  Colombia | |
| 1987 (2nd) | Life Is Most Important | Lo que importa es vivir | Luis Alcoriza |  Mexico |
| Man Facing Southeast | Hombre mirando al sudeste | Eliseo Subiela | Argentina | |
| A Successful Man | Un hombre de éxito | Humberto Solás |  Cuba | |
| 1988 (3rd) | ||||
| 1989 (4th) | The Beauty of the Alhambra | La bella del Alhambra | Enrique Pineda Barnet | Cuba |
| Aventurera | Pablo de Barra | Venezuela | ||
1990s
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2000s
2010s
2020s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (35th) | Forgotten We'll Be | El olvido que seremos | Fernando Trueba | Colombia |
| The Mole Agent | El agente topo | Maite Alberdi |  Chile | |
| La Llorona | Jayro Bustamante |  Guatemala | ||
| I'm No Longer Here | Ya no estoy aquí | Fernando Frías de la Parra | Mexico | |
| 2021 (36th) [4] | The Cordillera of Dreams | La cordillera de los sueños | Patricio Guzmán | Chile |
| Song Without a Name | Canción sin nombre | Melina León |  Peru | |
| The Siamese Bond | Las siamesas | Paula Hernández | Argentina | |
| Los Lobos | Samuel Kishi | Mexico | ||
Awards by country
| Country | Awards | Nominations |
|---|---|---|
| Argentina |
18 | 28 |
| Chile |
5 | 19 |
| Cuba |
4 | 19 |
| Mexico |
3 | 20 |
 Uruguay |
2 | 8 |
| Colombia |
1 | 12 |
| Venezuela |
1 | 10 |
| Peru |
1 | 8 |
 Ecuador |
0 | 1 |
.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Bolivia |
0 | 1 |
 Paraguay |
0 | 1 |
 Costa Rica |
0 | 1 |
| Guatemala |
0 | 1 |
References
- Comentario sociológico. Dirección de Estudios Sociales de la Confederación Española de Cajas de Ahorros. 1987. p. 224.
- AFP (February 3, 2018). ""Una mujer fantástica", gana Goya a mejor película iberoamericana". El Espectador. Retrieved February 7, 2018.
- "Premios Goya 2019: lista completa de ganadores". eldiario.es (in Spanish). February 4, 2019. Retrieved February 4, 2019.
- "'El buen patrón' bate el récord histórico de los Goya con 20 nominaciones". RTVE (in Spanish). 29 November 2021. Retrieved November 29, 2021.
