Goya Award for Best Actress
The Goya Award for Best Actress (Spanish: Premio Goya a la mejor interpretación femenina protagonista) is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards.
| Goya Award for Best Actress | |
|---|---|
![]() The 2021 recipient: Patricia López Arnaiz | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role |
| Country | Spain |
| Presented by | Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (AACCE) |
| First awarded | 1987 (for performance in films released during the 1986 film season) |
| Most recent winner | Patricia López Arnaiz Ane Is Missing (2020) |
| Website | www |
Since its inception, the award has been given to 26 actresses. At the 1st Goya Awards ceremony held in 1987, Amparo Rivelles was the first winner of this award for her role in We Must Undo the House. Carmen Maura has received the most awards in this category with three wins. Penélope Cruz was nominated on eleven occasions, winning two times.
As of the 2021 ceremony, Patricia López Arnaiz is the most recent winner in this category for her role as Lide in Ane Is Missing.
Winners and nominees
In the following table, the years are listed as per Academy convention, and generally correspond to the year of film release; the ceremonies are always held the following year.
| Indicates the winner |
1980s

| Year | Actress | Role(s) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 (1st) [1][2][3] |
Amparo Rivelles |
Laura | We Must Undo the House | Hay que deshacer la casa |
| Victoria Abril | Dorita | Time of Silence | Tiempo de silencio | |
| Ángela Molina | Rosa | Half of Heaven | La mitad del cielo | |
| 1987 (2nd) |
Verónica Forqué |
Ana | The Happy Life | La vida alegre |
| Victoria Abril | Chelo | El Lute: Run for Your Life | El lute: camina o revienta | |
| Irene Gutiérrez Caba | Bernarda Alba | The House of Bernarda Alba | La casa de Bernada Alba | |
| 1988 (3rd) |
Carmen Maura |
Pepa Marcos | Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown | Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios |
| Victoria Abril | Ana Alonso | Baton Rouge | ||
| Ana Belén | Alejandra | Miss Caribe | ||
| María Fernanda d'Ocón | Sor Mercedes | Caminos de Tiza | ||
| Ángela Molina | Charo | Lights and Shadows | Luces y sombras | |
| 1989 (4th) |
Rafaela Aparicio |
Grandmother | The Sea and the Weather | El mar y el tiempo |
| Victoria Abril | Ramona / Menchu / Aurora Nin | If They Tell You I Fell | Si te dicen que caí | |
| Ana Belén | Paloma | The Flight of the Dove | El vuelo de la paloma | |
| Verónica Forqué | Chusa | Going South Shopping | Bajarse al moro | |
| Ángela Molina | Pepita | The Things of Love | Las cosas del querer | |
1990s
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2000s


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| Year | Actress | Role(s) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 (15th) |
Carmen Maura |
Julia | Common Wealth | La comunidad |
| Icíar Bollaín | Leo | Leo | ||
| Lydia Bosch | Julia | You're the One | Una historia de entonces | |
| Adriana Ozores | Susana Grey | Plenilune | Plenilunio | |
| 2001 (16th) |
Pilar López de Ayala |
Joanna of Castile | Mad Love | Juana la Loca |
| Victoria Abril | Lola Nevado | Don't Tempt Me | Sin noticias de Dios | |
| Nicole Kidman | Grace Stewart | The Others | The Others | |
| Paz Vega | Angela | Mine Alone | Sólo mía | |
| 2002 (17th) |
Mercedes Sampietro |
Liliana Rovira | Common Ground | Lugares comunes |
| Ana Fernández | Andrea | Story of a Kiss | Historia de un beso | |
| Adriana Ozores | Ágata | Nobody's Life | La vida de nadie | |
| Leonor Watling | Elvira | My Mother Likes Women | A mi madre le gustan las mujeres | |
| 2003 (18th) |
Laia Marull |
Pilar | Take My Eyes | Te doy mis ojos |
| Ariadna Gil | Lola | Soldiers of Salamis | Soldados de Salamina | |
| Adriana Ozores | Amparo | Sleeping Luck | La suerte dormida | |
| Sarah Polley | Ann | My Life Without Me | ||
| 2004 (19th) |
Lola Dueñas |
Rosa | The Sea Inside | Mar adentro |
| Pilar Bardem | María Zambrano | Dear Maria | María querida | |
| Ana Belén | Hortensia | Cosas que hacen que la vida valga la pena | ||
| Penélope Cruz | Italia | Don't Move | Non ti muovere | |
| 2005 (20th) |
Candela Peña |
Caye | Princesas | |
| Adriana Ozores | Pilar | Heroine | Heroína | |
| Nathalie Poza | Ana | Hard Times | Malas temporadas | |
| Emma Vilarasau | Irene | Forget Me Not | Para que no me olvides | |
| 2006 (21st) |
Penélope Cruz |
Raimunda | To Return | Volver |
| Silvia Abascal | Finea | Lady Nitwit | La dama boba | |
| Marta Etura | Paula | Dark Blue Almost Black | Azuloscurocasinegro | |
| Maribel Verdú | Mercedes | Pan's Labyrinth | El laberinto del fauno | |
| 2007 (22nd) |
Maribel Verdú |
Ángela | Seven Billiard Tables | Siete mesas de billar francés |
| Belén Rueda | Laura | The Orphanage | El orfanato | |
| Blanca Portillo | Charo | Seven Billiard Tables | Siete mesas de billar francés | |
| Emma Suárez | Nines | Under the Stars | Bajo las estrellas | |
| 2008 (23rd) |
Carme Elías |
Gloria | Camino | Camino |
| Verónica Echegui | Isa | My Prison Yard | El patio de mi cárcel | |
| Ariadna Gil | Aurora Rodríguez | Just Walking | Sólo quiero caminar | |
| Maribel Verdú | Elena | The Blind Sunflowers | Los girasoles ciegos | |
| 2009 (24th) |
Lola Dueñas |
Laura Valiente | Me Too | Yo, también |
| Penélope Cruz | Magdalena Rivas | Broken Embraces | Los abrazos rotos | |
| Maribel Verdú | Miranda | Tetro | ||
| Rachel Weisz | Hypatia | Agora | Ágora | |
2010s
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2020s
| Year | Actress | Role(s) | English title | Original title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (35th) [7][8][9] |
Patricia López Arnaiz | Lide | Ane Is Missing | Ane |
| Amaia Aberasturi | Ana | Coven | Akelarre | |
| Kiti Mánver | Lola | One Careful Owner | El inconveniente | |
| Candela Peña | Rosa | Rosa's Wedding | La boda de Rosa | |
| 2021 (36th) [10] |
Emma Suárez | Berta | Josephine | Josefina |
| Petra Martínez | María | That Was Life | La vida era eso | |
| Blanca Portillo | Maixabel Lasa | Maixabel | Maixabel | |
| Penélope Cruz | Janis Martínez Moreno | Parallel Mothers | Madres paralelas | |
Multiple wins and nominations
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The following individuals received two or more Best Actress awards:
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The following individuals received three or more Best Actress nominations:
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References
- Alvarado, Esther (8 November 2013). "Muere la actriz Amparo Rivelles". El Mundo (in Spanish). Madrid. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- "Muere la actriz Amparo Rivelles a los 88 años". Radiotelevisión Española (in Spanish). 7 November 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- "La actriz Amparo Rivelles muere a los 88 años". El Periódico de Catalunya (in Spanish). 7 November 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
- "Emily Mortimer, la soldado de Coixet para romper la maldición de las nominadas extranjeras". ABC (in Spanish). February 3, 2018. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
- "Najwa Nimri: "No esperaba estar nominada a los Goya"". Europa Press. Madrid. 15 January 2019. Retrieved 4 February 2019.
- Zas Marcos, Mónica. "Dolor para Amenábar y gloria para Almodóvar en unos Goya 2020 que ignoraron a su niño mimado". eldiario.es. Retrieved 26 January 2020.
- "Nominaciones Premios Goya 2021". premiosgoya.com (in Spanish). 18 January 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2021.
- Ramachandran, Naman (18 January 2021). "Adu, Las Ninas, Akelarre Lead Spain's Goya Nominations". Variety. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- Roxborough, Scott; Szalai, Georg (18 January 2021). "Netflix Drama Leads Spain's Goya Awards Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 19 January 2021.
- "'El buen patrón' bate el récord histórico de los Goya con 20 nominaciones". RTVE (in Spanish). Retrieved November 29, 2021.
