Madrid (EFE) chained demands for the inclusion of dissident bodies, races, genders and ages.
While Sorogoyen’s film has won the awards for Best Newcomer (Diego Anido), Supporting Actor (Luis Zahera) and Leading Role (Denis Ménochet), Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s film has garnered the Best Supporting Actor (Ramón Barea), secondary actress (Susi Sánchez) and leading actress (Laia Costa).
The celebration, directed by José Padilla and led by the actor Cristóbal Suárez and the actresses Almudena Puyo and Lucía Trentini, in charge of the musical performances, has brought together established actors from film, theater and television with older actors and performers with diverse functional in a plea for a more inclusive world of performance with its artists.
absences in the gala
The marked absences of Ana de Armas (Best International Actress for “Blonde”), Javier Bardem (Best International Actor for “Being the Ricardos”), Ménochet and Sánchez have contrasted with humorous statements such as those of Zahera, who has defined their boom as actor as something “unbearable”, or Barea’s vindication of Ruiz de Azúa’s feminine gaze by showing “care that went unnoticed over a purely masculine gaze”.
The also absent Adelfa Calvo (“En los márgenes”), best supporting actress, has made her speech of thanks to Juan Diego Botto and has vindicated the figuration actors and has denounced the situation of the real estate bubble from a mobile phone placed in speakerphone mode from the stage.
In the same way, Laura Galán (best new actress for “Cerdita”) wanted to have a gesture of affection remembering the theater school where she started her training.
Honorary Award to Lola Herrera
Lola Herrera, awarded the honorary prize “Toda una vida” for performances such as “Five hours with Mario”, has highlighted the “form of a hug” that recognition represents for her: “I think it is the most important prize I have been given in my life. I have not been moved by any award like the notification of this one ”, she has confessed at the same time that she has claimed the memory of the deceased interpreters.
Likewise, the special prize of the edition has gone to the veteran pioneers in the defense of the rights of the profession, represented on stage by some of the founders of the Union who have insisted on the need to pass the baton from the claims to the new generations. Among them were relatives of the actress Concha Velasco, who has excused her absence due to health problems.
The Ministry of Equality has been rewarded with the “Mujeres en Unión-Pilar Bardem” award for the elaboration of the trans law and for the guarantee of the rights of LGTBI people, recognition that Minister Irene Montero has thanked by remembering the figure of Lorca and the importance of action so that the most marginalized groups can freely express their identity.
Television and theater awards
On television, the series “La Unidad” has reaped victories for Yassmine Othman (Best Supporting Actress) and Nathalie Poza (Best Leading Actress), who has highlighted the ability of her role to “give a voice to those who don’t have one.”
The awards for best supporting actor and best leading actor went to Iñaki Miramón (“Amar es para siempre”) and Luis Callejo (“Apagón”) respectively, while Manolo Caro was awarded for his role as supporting actor in “Entrevías” , and its feminine namesake has been raised by Beatriz Carvajal (“Laura and the mystery of the unexpected murderer”).
The most noteworthy surprise has been obtained in the world of theater, where the ex aequo award for best supporting actor has gone up to the tables for Rafa Castejón (“El burlador de Sevilla”) and Carlos Serrano-Clark (“Death of a salesman ”), as has happened with the supporting actress award given to Carmen Mayordomo (“Robots universales Rossum”) and Verónica Ronda (“Lo feignido verdad”).
As for secondary performances, the role of Luis Bermejo in “Los santos inocentes” has been recognized along with that of Zaira Montes in “La casa de Bernarda Alba”, who has vindicated for the second time in the evening the figure of the poet and playwright from Granada as a guide to lucidity before dedicating the award to his closest friends and family.
The lucky ones in this genre as leading actors have been Alberto Velasco (“Sweet dreams”), who wanted to vindicate actors who, like him, have different bodies, and Blanca Portillo, for her role in “Silencio” beating Marta Poveda and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, with whom he has shared his merits while also extolling the figure of Herrera, the first actress on whom he was inspired.
“We are social workers, we are mirrors of things that people do not want to be seen,” declared the actress, who, like many other artists tonight, has advocated for inclusive language when commenting: “We have an infiltrator in the RAE, to Juan Mayorga, who will be doing many things for us, for us and for us”.