| Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay | |
|---|---|
 The 2024 recipient: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | |
| Awarded for | Best Original Screenplay |
| Country | Spain |
| Presented by | Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (AACCE) |
| Currently held by | Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren 20,000 Species of Bees (2023) |
| Website | premiosgoya |
The Goya Award for Best Original Screenplay (Spanish Premio Goya al mejor guión original) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards.
For the first two editions of the Goya Awards, only one award for screenplays was presented which included both original and adapted screenplays, with both winners being adaptations, Voyage to Nowhere in 1986 (based on the novel of the same name by Fernando Fernán Gómez) and El bosque animado (based on the eponymous novel by Wenceslao Fernández Flórez) in 1987. Since the third edition, two awards are presented separately, Best Original Screenplay and Best Adapted Screenplay.
Alejandro Amenábar holds the record for most wins in this category with four victories, winning for Tesis (1996), The Others (2001), The Sea Inside (2004) and Agora (2009). Pedro Almodóvar has received more nominations in this category than any other nominee, with seven nominations.
Winners and nominees
1980s
- Best Screenplay
| Year | English title | Original title | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 (1st) |
Voyage to Nowhere | El viaje a ninguna parte | Fernando Fernán Gómez |
| Dear Nanny | Tata mía | José Luis Borau | |
| Mambru Went to War | Mambrú se fue a la guerra | Fernando Fernán Gómez | |
| 1987 (2nd) |
The Enchanted Forest | El bosque animado | Rafael Azcona |
| La guerra de los locos | Manolo Matji | ||
| Moors and Christians | Moros y cristianos | Luis García Berlanga and Rafael Azcona | |
- Best Original Screenplay
| Year | English title | Original title | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1988 (3rd) |
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios | Pedro Almodóvar |
| Baton Rouge | Agustín Díaz Yanes and Rafael Monleón | ||
| Wait for Me in Heaven | Espérame en el cielo | Antonio Mercero, Horacio Varcárcel and Román Gubern | |
| Rowing with the Wind | Remando al viento | Gonzalo Suárez | |
| 1989 (4th) |
Moon Child | El niño de la luna | Agustí Villaronga |
| Amanece, que no es poco | José Luis Cuerda | ||
| El baile del pato | Manuel Iborra | ||
| The Things of Love | Las cosas del querer | Jaime Chávarri, Fernando Colomo and Lázaro Irazábal | |
| The Flight of the Dove | El vuelo de la paloma | José Luis García Sánchez and Rafael Azcona | |
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
| Year | English title | Original title | Recipient(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (35th) |
Schoolgirls | Las niñas | Pilar Palomero |
| Rosa's Wedding | La boda de Rosa | Alicia Luna and Icíar Bollaín | |
| Unfortunate Stories | Historias lamentables | Javier Fesser and Claro García | |
| Adú | Alejandro Hernández | ||
| 2021 (36th) |
The Good Boss | El buen patrón | Fernando León de Aranoa |
| Libertad | Clara Roquet | ||
| Maixabel | Icíar Bollaín, Isa Campo | ||
| Out of Sync | Tres | Juanjo Giménez Peña, Pere Altimira | |
| 2022 (37th) |
The Beasts | As bestas | Isabel Peña, Rodrigo Sorogoyen |
| Alcarràs | Arnau Vilaró, Carla Simón | ||
| Lullaby | Cinco lobitos | Alauda Ruiz de Azúa | |
| Manticore | Mantícora | Carlos Vermut | |
| Prison 77 | Modelo 77 | Alberto Rodríguez, Rafael Cobos | |
| 2023 (38th) |
20,000 Species of Bees | 20.000 especies de abejas | Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren |
| Close Your Eyes | Cerrar los ojos | Víctor Erice, Michel Gaztambide | |
| Love & Revolution | Te estoy amando locamente | Carmen Garrido, Alejandro Marín | |
| Upon Entry | Alejandro Rojas, Juan Sebastián Vásquez | ||
| Not Such an Easy Life | Una vida no tan simple | Félix Viscarret [es] | |
References
- "El viaje a ninguna parte". Premios Goya (in Spanish). Retrieved December 16, 2017.
- B. Montañés, Jorge; Izeddin, Daniel. "El viaje a ninguna parte: homenaje a los cómicos". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved December 16, 2017.
- Valero Martínez, Tomás. "El viaje a ninguna parte" (PDF) (in Spanish). CineHistoria. ISSN 2385-4197.
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