Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film
Annual award by the Spanish Film Academy
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The Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film (Spanish: Goya a la mejor película iberoamericana), formerly the Goya Award for Best Spanish Language Foreign Film (Spanish: Goya a la mejor película extranjera de habla hispana, 1987–2008) and the Goya Award for Best Hispanic American Film (Spanish: Goya a la mejor película hispanoamericana, 2009–2010), is one of the Goya Awards presented annually by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (AACCE) since the awards debuted in 1986. The category has been presented ever since then with the exception of the third edition where it was not awarded. Carlos Sorín's A King and His Movie was the first winner of this award representing Argentina.
| Goya Award for Best Ibero-American Film | |
|---|---|
Crew members of Belén holding their trophy | |
| Native name | Goya a la mejor película iberoamericana |
| Awarded for | Best Ibero-American film of the year |
| Country | Spain |
| Presented by | Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain (AACCE) |
| First award | 1st Goya Awards (1986) |
| Most recent winner |  Belén (2025) |
| Website | Official website |
The submission of a film to this category in representation of Portugal is not compatible with a submission of said film to the Best European Film award category.[1] Regarding the films with both a Spanish share and a (non-Spanish) Ibero-American share of the production, leading producers are required to choose between opting for this category or the Best Film category.[1]
Winners and nominees
Argentina has received the most awards and nominations in this category with 20 wins and 32 nominations, Chile follows with 6 wins and 23 nominations. Goya winning films The Secret in Their Eyes (2009), A Fantastic Woman (2017) and Roma (2018) have won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film representing Argentina, Chile and Mexico respectively, with the latter also being nominated for Best Picture and winning Best Director.
Argentine director Eduardo Mignogna is the most awarded director in this category, winning for Autumn Sun (1996), The Lighthouse (1998) and La fuga (2001), while the most nominated directors in this category are Peruvian director Francisco José Lombardi, nominated for Fallen from Heaven (1990), Without Compassion (1994), Captain Pantoja and the Special Services (2000) and Black Butterfly (2007) and Chilean directors Andrés Wood, nominated for Machuca (2004), The Good Life (2008), Violeta Went to Heaven (2011) and Spider (2019), and Maite Alberdi, nominated for La once (2015), The Mole Agent (2020), The Eternal Memory (2023) and In Her Place (2024), with four nominations each.
Notes
- The winner in each year is shown with a blue background and in bold.
1980s
| Year | English title | Original title | Director(s) | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1986 (1st) [2] |
A King and His Movie | La película del rey | Carlos Sorín | Argentina |
| Pequeña revancha | Olegario Barrera |  Venezuela | ||
| A Time to Die | Tiempo de morir | Jorge Alí Triana |  Colombia | |
| 1987 (2nd) |
Life Is Most Important | Lo que importa es vivir | Luis Alcoriza |  Mexico |
| Man Facing Southeast | Hombre mirando al sudeste | Eliseo Subiela | Argentina | |
| A Successful Man | Un hombre de éxito | Humberto Solás |  Cuba | |
| 1988 (3rd) |
Not awarded | |||
| 1989 (4th) |
The Beauty of the Alhambra | La bella del Alhambra | Enrique Pineda Barnet | Cuba |
| Aventurera | Pablo de Barra | Venezuela | ||
