The rave has swept the Gaudí Awards, leaving him with only one prize. The film by , which was not present because it was campaigning in the US ahead of the , took home eight of the twelve awards it was up for. The closing of the family trilogy of , which started with the highest number of nominations – thirteen in total – has gone home with the only recognition going to the revelation performer, . The directing award did not go to Laxe, Simón or , who had six nominations for , his celebrated documentary about the world of bullfighters, which won two Gaudí awards – documentary film and montage. The voters of the Catalan Film Academy have recognized as best director , a fiction about the complexities of pregnancy and upbringing of a deaf woman in Murcia, which won the audience award at the Berlinale. Deafwhich started with ten nominations, also won the award for best adapted screenplay and best supporting actor for .
have been doubly recognized. The best protagonist was Ángela Cervantes for her portrayal of an actress raped at a party in , director Gemma Blasco’s debut, who won the award for best new director and dedicated her award to the victims of sexual violence, recalling that in the field of assaults “shame has changed sides.” The best protagonist has been for his coming out in Utrecht in , a category that has once again left , nominated nine times in eighteen galas, without an award. Silvia Munt, who is preparing a documentary about Mercè Rodoreda, gave the longest ovation of the night when she received the Gaudí of Honor.
The eighteenth Gaudí gala, which was held at the Gran Teatro del Liceu and began with a live song between Magalí Sare and Salvador Sobral and a welcome speech by Nora Navas, Maria Arnal, Laura Weishmar and Carla Quílez while the Berghain by Rosalía, opted for the desert drama that will compete in the next Oscars, nominated for best international film and best sound. The Academy recognized Sirât with the award for best non-Catalan film, best production direction (Oriol Maymó), artistic direction (Laia Ateca), original music (Kangding Ray), photography (Mauro Herce), sound (Amanda Villavieja, Laia Casanovas, Yasmina Praderas), visual effects (Pep Claret, Lluís Rivera, Benjamin Ageorges) and makeup and hairdressing (Zaira Eva Adéna).
Minutes before the gala, Carla Simón did not seem nervous on the red carpet about the final result. “I take it very calmly and philosophically. Now I am in the process of letting the film go. It is time to celebrate it, but when awards season arrives it already catches me thinking about other projects and I am very excited about the present,” she said. The filmmaker confessed that she was almost late to the party because, taking advantage of the fact that her in-laws were with their children, she had spent the day watching flamenco videos, the theme on which her next project is focused. “I am starting to write and investigate,” said the director of Pilgrimagewhich began its journey in Cannes and brought almost 300,000 spectators to the cinema, raising 1.7 million. When collecting her award for revelation performer, Llúcia Garcia thanked Simón for directing such an “important” film.
“This will be the gala of leaving childhood or adolescence and moving into the adult world,” the director of the Academy, Judith Colell, explained about the coming of age of the awards. The filmmaker came “more nervous than usual” due to her eight nominations for Fronteraare thriller historical story about those who helped Jews escaping Nazi repression in the Pyrenees. Colell would take home the award for best Catalan-speaking film, the audience award, costume award (Mercè Paloma) and the best supporting actress award for Bruna Cusí, who hugged her fellow category members before collecting her award.
He was the winner for the second consecutive year for the best original script and went in tandem with the filmmaker Cesc Gay for: “This year I come as a companion, if someone must speak it should be Cesc,” he said on the red carpet about the echoes of his viral speech of 2025. Later, on stage, he did speak and made a plea in favor of utopia and that “let’s imagine a world without fucking fascists ruling the world.” The best animated film was Olivia and invisible earthquake; the best short, Sugar and the best European film was .
