“The Infiltrator”, “El 47”, “La Estrella Azul” and “Second Prize”, nominated in the surprising Forqué

The Forqué awards opened, as usual, the awards season. They are the first to announce their appointments and usually set the trends for what happens next at the Goya. The Forqué, who choose the producers of the film, surprised this year with a quartet where they are The Infiltratorof Arantxa Echevarria; The 47th by Marcel Barrena; The blue star, by Javier Macipe and Second prizeby Isaki Lacuesta.

A quartet that leaves out several films that seemed to be big favorites, notably The next roomby Pedro Almodóvar. The Forqués did not choose the winner of the Golden Lion of Venice. They opted for this season’s big box office hits, like The 47 And The infiltrator, two films whose word of mouth elevated them to theaters as two of the titles of the year.

Movies like Framewhich was located in the Orizzonti district of Venice, or The sparks, which was located in the Official Section of San Sebastian. Not even Seminci’s most radical bets, like They will dust either Hail Mary -which, inexplicably, have no nominees or their performers.

The surprises continue in the interpretive categories. No trace of Angela Molina, because They will dust or Laura Weissmahr, for Hail Mary. The first won the prize at the Rome Festival and a mention at the Seminci, a competition where it was won by the protagonist of Hail Mary. The quartet chosen by the Forqués includes Carolina Yuste (The Infiltrator), Emma Vilarasau (House on fire), Najwa Nimri (The Red Virgin) and Patricia López Arnaiz (The sparks). Among the men, Antonio de la Torre received the nomination (The sparks), Edouard Fernández (Frame), Mario Casas (Exhaust) and Pépé Lorente (The blue star) are in the men’s category.

Les Forqués also highlights social and educational work with a prize for cinema and education in values, the nominees of which are The 47 (Marcel Barrena), The blue star (Javier Macipe), The Infiltrator (Arantxa Echevarria) and My name is Nevenka (Icíar Bollaín, only nomination for Bollaín’s film.

Les Forqués, who this year will reward José Luis Garci with their honorary prize, also nominated for best documentary for Chaplin. gypsy spirit (Carmen Chaplin) The flamenco guitar of Yerai Cortés (Anton Alvarez), Marisol, call me Pepa (Blanca Torres) and My brother Ali (Paula Palacios). As well as animated films Buffalo children (Pedro Solís and Juan Jesús García “Galo”), Guardian Gragon – Guardian of the Dragon (Salvador Simó and Li Jianping), black butterflies (David Bauté) and The bottom of the rock (María Trenor) as finalists in this category. As for the best Latin American film of the year, those chosen were The Jockey (Luis Ortega), The place of the other (Maïté Alberdi), dog thief (Vinko Tomicic) and Memories of a burning body (Antonella Sudasassi).

The Forqué also reward the best series of the year, and here too there were surprises, since not even The new yearsby Rodrigo Sorogoyen and presented in Venice; neither one nor the other Me, drug addictseen in San Sebastian; They are one of the four finalists. Neither one of the series with the best reviews of the year, We’ll see you in another life. The quartet is made up of: Christophe Balenciaga (Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi, José Mari Goenaga, Lourdes Iglesias), The Asunta case (Ramon Campos)The lawyers (Patricia Ferreira) and To want (Alauda Ruiz de Azúa).

The series interpretation awards chose Candela Peña for The Asunta case; Carmen Machi, by Sky blue; Iria del Río, for The new years and Nagore Aramburu for To want for best female performance in a series, while Alberto San Juan, in his role as Christophe Balenciaga; Javier Cámara for his performance in Rapa; Oriol Pla by Me, drug addict and Pedro Casablanc for To want They will do the same in the category of Best Male Performance in a Series.