Wert opts out of Goya awards night

The premiere of Mario Gas’s recent staging of Julius Caesar was punctuated by a chorus of catcalls for Education and Culture Minister José Ignacio Wert, and at the Forqué awards ceremony, a precursor to the Goyas, he was again roundly booed. No surprise, therefore, that the Minister has cited a ‘scheduling conflict’ as his reason for not attending tonight’s Goya …

10 Goyas for Snow White

It is the awards season and at the Goyas, the Spanish equivalent of the Oscars, it was the film Blancanieves (Snow White), directed by Pablo Berger, which dominated proceedings, collecting no less than 10 gongs including best film.

Goyas 2011

It is the gong season, and in Spain this means the Goya Awards, now in their 25th year. The winners of the Goyas in the various categories were: