Oscar Nominee ‘Robot Dreams’ Wins Animated Feature, Adapted Screenplay Prizes At Spain’s Goya Awards
The Spanish Academy held its annual Goya Awards over the weekend, the country’s equivalent of the Oscars, and Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams won best animated feature and best adapted screenplay.
The film, a dialogue-free adaptation of Sara Varon’s graphic novel of the same name, was also nominated for best original music and best editing. That stands in stark contrast to the U.S. Academy’s refusal to consider animated films in any categories beyond those dedicated to animation.
This year, for instance, the Critics Choice Awards nominated Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse for best visual effects and best score and nominated Wish and The Super Mario Bros. Movie for best song. The Golden Globes nominated animated titles in its cinematic and box office achievement, score, and original song categories. Meanwhile, no animated film was nominated for any category other than animated feature and animated short this year.
Robot Dreams’ adapted screenplay win was a bit of a coup as it was going up against Goya powerhouse Society of the Snow, which won 12 prizes this year, including best special effects and best picture. The special effects prize was awarded to Pau Costa, Félix Bergés, and Laura Pedro for their work on the J.A. Bayona-helmed feature.
The 2024 best animated short prize went to To Bird or Not to Bird by frequent Alberto Vázquez collaborator Martín Romero. The film, produced by Chelo Loureiro and longtime Vázquez producer Iván Miñambres, previously impressed at 2023’s Cannes Animation Day.
Here are the 2024 Spanish Academy Goya animation and vfx winners.
Beast Animated Feature
- They Shot the Piano Player, (Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal)
- Sultana’s Dream, (Isabel Heguera)
- Hanna And The Monsters, (Lorena Ares)
- Mummies, (Juan Jesús García Galocha “Galo”)
- Robot Dreams, (Pablo Berger) – WINNER
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Albert Val (The Teacher Who Promised the Sea)
- Bernat Vilaplana, J.A. Bayona, Jaime Marques-Olarreaga, Nicolás Casariego (The Society of The Snow)
- Pablo Berger (Robot Dreams) – WINNER
- Albert Espinosa, David Trueba (Jokes & Cigarettes)
- Isabel Coixet, Laura Ferrero (Un Amor)
Best Animated Short Film
- Becarias, (Marina Cortón, Marina Donderis, Núria Poveda)
- To Bird or Not to Bird, (Martín Romero) – WINNER
- Todo bien, (Diana Acién Manzorro)
- Todo está perdido, (Carla Pereira, Juanfran Jacinto)
- Txotxongiloa, Sonia Estévez)
Best Special Effects
- Mariano García Marty, Jon Serrano, David Heras, Fran Belda, Indira Martín (20,000 Species of Bees)
- Eneritz Zapiain, Iñaki Gil (La ermita)
- Pau Costa, Félix Bergés, Laura Pedro (The Society of the Snow) – Winner
- Mariano García Marty, Jon Serrano, Juan Ventura, Amparo Martínez (Tin & Tina)
- Raúl Romanillos, Míriam Piquer (Valle de sombras)
