The 2025 Spanish Academy Goya Award nominations were unveiled today, where the big surprise was Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next Door” being left out of the competition’s best picture category.
Although the film won’t compete for the ceremony’s top honor, its director and both his lead actors, Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore, all received individual nods, Almodóvar for best director and the two performers for best actress.
Titles selected for this year’s best feature category include Marcel Barrena’s “El 47” – the most nominated with 14 nods – “La Estrella Azul” by Javier Macipe, “Saturn Return” from Isaki Lacuesta and Pol Rodríguez, “Unddercover” from Arantxa Echevarría and “A House on Fire” by Dani de la Orden.
In the best director category, Almodóvar will face off against Goya regulars, including “Saturn Return” co-directors Isaki Lacuesta (best screenplay winner for “One Year, One Night”) and Pol Rodríguez, “Undercover’s” Arantxa Echevarría (2019 best new director winner for “Carmen y Lola”), “Marco” co-directors Aitor Arregi and Jon Garaño (directors of 2019’s 15-time nominee “The Endless Trench”) and “The Red Virgin’s” Paula Ortiz (2016 best director nominee for “The Bride”).
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Swinton and Moore will share the best actress category with local stars Emma Vilarasau (“A House on Fire”), Carolina Yuste (“Undercover”) and Patricia Lopez Arnaiz (“Los flashes”). This year’s best actor nominees are Alberto San Juan (“A House on Fire”), Eduard Fernández (“Marco”), Alfredo Castro (“They Will be Dust”), Urko Olazaba (“l’m Nevenka”) and Vito Sanz (“The Other Way Around”).
This year’s Goya ceremony will be held in Granada on Feb. 8 at the Palacio de Congresos. It will be just the eighth time the prizes are held outside Madrid. The Spanish Academy previously announced that the upcoming ceremony will be the first to be hosted by two women, actresses Maribel Verdú and Leonor Watling.