Sunday, February 8, 2015

Police thriller dominates Spanish film awards, Banderas honoured

Spanish actor Antonio Banderas (L) looks at his 2015 Goya de Honor award during the 29th Goya film awards ceremony held at the Prince Felipe Congress Centre in Madrid, on February 7, 2015 Spanish police thriller "Marshland" picked up 10 trophies at the Goya Awards, Spain's version of the Oscars, which honoured Antonio Banderas with a lifetime achievement award. Among others, the movie about a police probe into the disappearance of two sisters after a local fiesta in rural Spain in 1980, won best film, best original screenplay and best director for Alberto Rodriguez at a ceremony in Madrid late Saturday. Spanish actor Javier Gutierrez won the best actor prize for his role as a violent policeman in the movie -- Spanish title "La Isla Minima" -- while Barbara Lennie was named best actress for her role as an unstable housewife in dark comedy "Magical Girl". Oscar-winning director Pedro Almodovar praised Banderas as he handed him with a lifetime achievement award, an honorary Goya, saying the 54-year-old actor "lit fire to Spanish movie screens in the 1980s" and then went on to become the first Spanish actor to achieve success in Hollywood.








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