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2007 Goya Awards Spanish Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ 2007 Goya Award nominations: Dec. 18, 2006 2007 Goya Award winners: Palacio Municipal de Congresos del Campo de las Naciones in Madrid on Jan. 28, 2007 Nominees consist of films released in Spain between Dec. 1, 2005, and Nov. 30, 2006. ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Penélope Cruz, Yohana Cobo, Lola [...]

Penélope Cruz told Academy members to vote for her — or else. Pedro Almodóvar should have used the same vote-getting technique. "There’s so many Mexicans!" exclaimed Mexican actress Salma Hayek, too excited to conjugate her verbs properly, upon announcing — along with Academy president Sid Ganis — some of the nominees for the 2007 Academy Awards. Indeed. Best supporting actress nominee Adriana Barraza (for Babel); [...]

2007 Spanish Film Writers Circle Awards 2007 Spanish Film Writers Circle Awards: January 16, 2007 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Pedro Almodóvar, Penélope Cruz in Volver   Best Film * Volver, by Pedro Almodóvar El laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth, by Guillermo del Toro La noche de los girasoles, by Jorge Sánchez-Cabezudo Un franco, 14 pesetas, by Carlos Iglesias Best Foreign [...]

Cécile De France in Avenue Montaigne (top); Mads Mikkelsen in After the Wedding (middle); Carice van Houten in The Black Book (bottom) The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has narrowed down to nine titles the list of potential 2007 best foreign-language film nominees. They are (listed in alphabetical order by country): Algeria, Days of Glory, Rachid Bouchareb, director Canada, Water, Deepa Mehta, director [...]