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Catalan film 'Segundo Premio' wins Best Director prize

'20,000 Species of Bees' leads with 15 nominations, followed by J.A. Bayona's 'Society of the Snow' with 13

'20,000 Species of Bees' leads with 15 nominations, followed by J.A. Bayona's 'Society of the Snow' with 13

Carla Simón's film will compete with 'As bestas,' 'Cinco Lobitos,' 'La Maternal,' and 'Modelo 77' for Best Movie

Movie directed by Fernando León de Aranoa and starring Javier Bardem was co-produced by Catalan company Mediapro

Pilar Palomero’s childhood drama emerges triumphant in Spain’s Oscar-like gala

She was well known for her appearances in cinema, theater, and television, and won two Goya awards

‘La sombra de la ley’ by Dani de la Orden wins best cinematography, artistic direction, and costume design

‘The Bookshop’ and ‘Estiu 1993’ have been awarded with a total of six prizes, including best film and best director  

‘The Bookshop’ and ‘Estiu 1993’ have both been nominated for best film

The Spanish Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences announced on Tuesday the death of Vicente Aranda, who has passed away in Madrid at the age of 88. Aranda was a renowned Barcelona-born film director, screenwriter and producer and one of the founding members of the so-called 'Barcelona School of Film', a group of Catalan filmmakers during the 1960’s concerned about how cinema was portraying unexpected events in daily life, with a pop-culture style. Born in the Catalan capital in 1926, during the course of his career Aranda won two Goya Awards, the Spanish Academy's equivalent of the Oscars. He directed many films including 'Amantes' (in English, 'Lovers', 1991), 'La Passión Turca' ('The Turkish Passion', 1994), and 'Juana la loca' ('Mad Love', 2001), among others. Among the key themes of his work are: the exploration of social issues, love as uncontrollable passion, eroticism and cruelty.

On the 16^th July Barcelona art centre Caixaforumopened its last major exhibition of the season entitled ´Beauty captivates. Little treasures from the Museo del Prado´. The exhibition contains 135 small canvases from the great artists within Madrid´s museum collection such as Velázquez, El Greco, Rubens, Goya and Tiziano. It will run for almost six months, until the 5^th of January 2015. The exhibition will enable visitors to contemplate the virtuosity of great masters of painting from the 14^th to the 19^th century dealing with small-scale works. It is the second largest collection of works that a host museumhas exhibited from the Museo del Prado, one of Europe's largest art collections.

Eric Roth, writer of “Forrest Gump” or “Munich”, will be joining him in the making of this new movie. Juan Antonio Bayona, after conquering the world of Spanish cinema with his movie “The Orphanage” and entering the worldwide market with “The Impossible”, is now undertaking a project to direct a science fiction film in Hollywood. Few details have been revealed so far, but the announcement has raised great expectation given the enormous success of the first two films by the Catalan director.