The movie Creatura, directed by Elena Martín, was the big winner at Sunday's ceremony for the best Catalan cinema of the year, the Gaudí Awards 2024. Martín's honest, unpretentious film about a woman's experience of sexual desire - in childhood, adolescence and adult life - won the two most important prizes, for best movie and best director, as well as acting awards for best male and female supporting roles (Alex Brendemühl and Clara Segura), best acting revelation for Clàudia Malagelada who played the protagonist as a teenager, and best editing. Meanwhile, Creatura's six statuettes were numerically outnumbered by the other big favourite, Saben Aquell (English title: "Jokes and Cigarettes"), David Trueba's feel-good biopic of 1970s Catalan comedian Eugenio, which convincingly won the two male and female lead acting prizes (David Verdaguer and Carolina Yuste) and five technical awards. The other main winner of the night was 20.000 especies de abejas ("20,000 species of bees") - which took away four awards - best non-Catalan language film, best original script, best photography and best new director for the Basque filmmaker Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren's powerful story about an eight year old transgender child.
All the winners at the Gaudí Awards 2024
Best film
- Creatura
- Saben aquell
- Els encantats
- La imatge permanent
Best direction
- Isabel Coixet for Un amor
- David Trueba for Saben aquell
- Elena Martín for Creatura
- Agustí Villaronga for Loli tormenta
Best actress
- Laia Costa for Un amor
- Bruna Cusí for Upon Entry (L'Arribada)
- Carolina Yuste for Saben aquell
- Patrícia López Arnaiz for 20.000 especies de abejas
Best actor
- David Verdaguer for Saben aquell
- Enric Auquer for El maestro que prometió el mar
- Alberto Ammann for Upon Entry (L'Arribada)
- Oriol Pla for Creatura
Best film in a language other than Catalan
- 20,000 especies de abejas by Estibaliz Urresola
- Un amor by Isabel Coixet
- El maestro que prometió el mar by Patricia Font
- Upon entry by Juan Sebastián Vásquez and Alejandro Rojas
Best new director
- Alejandro Marín for Te estoy amando locamente
- Estibaliz Urresola for 20.000 especies de abejas
- Juan Sebastián Vásquez and Alejandro Rojas for Upon Entry (L'Arribada)
- Laura Ferrés for La imatge permanent
Acting relevation
- Ainara Elejalde for Els encantats
- Alicia Falcó for Las buenas compañías
- Clàudia Malagelada for Creatura
- La Dani (Dani F. Pozo) for Te estoy amando locamente
Best original script
- Elena Martín i Clara Roquet for Creatura
- Estibaliz Urresola for 20,000 especies de abejas
- Juan Sebastián Vásquez and Alejandro Rojas for Upon Entry (L'Arribada)
- Isa Campo, Andrea Queralt and Víctor Iriarte for Sobre todo de noche
Best adapted script
- Albert Val for El maestro que prometió el mar
- David Trueba and Albert Espinosa for Saben aquell
- Isabel Coixet and Laura Ferrero for Un amor
- Pablo Berger for Robot Dreams
Best production direction
- Andrés Mellinas for Creatura
- Eduard Vallés for Saben aquell
- Elisa Sirvent and Patricio Pereira for La contadora de películas
- Eva Taboada for Un amor
Best documentary
- Mentre siguis tu, l’aquí i l’ara de Carme Elías by Claudia Pinto Emperador
- Muyeres by Marta Lallana
- Alteritats by Alba Cros i Nora Haddad
- Hermano caballo by Marcel Barrena
Best short film
- Blow! by Neus Ballús
- El bus by Sandra Reina
- La herida luminosa by Christian Avilés
- Tots els meus colors by Anna Solanas i Marc Riba
Best made-for-TV film
- Miró by Oriol Ferrer
- Quico Sabaté, sense destí by Sílvia Quer
Best animated film
- Robot dreams by Pablo Berger
- Dispararon al pianista by Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal
- Hanna i els monstres by Lorena Ares
- Heavies tendres by Joan Tomàs
Best artistic direction
- Josep Rosell for El maestro que prometió el mar
- Sylvia Steinbrecht for Creatura
- Marc Pou for Saben aquell
- Izaskun Urkijo Alijo for 20.000 especies de abejas
Best supporting actress
- Aina Clotet for Els encantats
- Ane Gabarain for 20.000 especies de abejas
- Ana Torrent for Sobre todo de noche
- Clara Segura for Creatura
Best supporting actor
- Alex Brendemühl for Creatura
- Daniel Brühl for La contadora de películas
- Hugo Silva for Un amor
- Pedro Casablanc for Saben aquell
Best editing
- Ana Pfaff for Sobre todo de noche
- Ariadna Ribas for Creatura
- Bernat Aragonés for La contadora de películas
- Raúl Barreras for 20.000 especies de abejas
Best original music
- Andrea Motis for Saben aquell
- Alfonso de Vilallonga for Robot Dreams
- Clara Aguilar for Creatura
- Maria Arnal and Nora Haddad Casadevall for Alteritats
Best photography
- Alana Mejía González for Creatura
- Agnès Piqué Corbera for La imatge permanent
- Bet Rourich for Un amor
- Gina Ferrer for 20.000 especies de abejas
Best wardrobe
- Isis Velasco for Te estoy amando locamente
- Lala Huete for Saben aquell
- Maria Armengol for El maestro que prometió el mar
- Mercè Paloma for La contadora de películas
Best sound
- Albert Gay, Enrique G. Bermejo i Carlos Jiménez for Un amor
- Xavi Mas, Eduardo Castro and Yasmina Praderas for Saben aquell
- Eva Valiño, Koldo Corella and Xanti Salvador for 20.000 especies de abejas
- Leo Dolgan, Oriol Donat and Laia Casanovas for Creatura
Best visual effects
- Bernat Aragonés for La contadora de películas
- Cristina Garmón for Creatura
- David Martí and Montse Ribé for Secaderos
- Wesley Barnard and Míriam Piquer for Saben aquell
Best makeup and hairdressing
- Caitlin Acheson, Nacho Días i Benjamín Pérez for Saben aquell
- Danae Gatell and Àlex Salvat for Creatura
- Patricia Reyes for El maestro que prometió el mar
- Patricia Reyes and Jesús Martos for La contadora de películas
Best European film
- La sociedad de la nieve by J. A. Bayona (Spain)
- Aftersun by Charlotte Wells (UK)
- Triangle of Sadness by Ruben Östlund (Sweden)
- The eight mountains by Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch (Italy)
- Close by Lukas Dhont (Belgium)