Goya 2021 anticovid awards: nominees will not attend the gala in Malaga

The nominees for the next edition of the Goya 2021 awards have not attended today's gala, March 6, at the Soho CaixaBank theater in Malaga, and the winners will be able to thank the award online, as announced by the president from the Film Academy, Mariano Barroso. «We have to be realistic and we are going to do a hybrid gala, with live shows and telematics. All protocols must be followed and this sends a message to all groups: this is a global fight. The pandemic has worsened and now we are at a peak, we do not know how it will get to March 6, but that is why ", explained the actor Antonio Banderas, one of the directors of the ceremony. Barroso has announced that all the nominees They will attend telematically, but the same will not happen with the gala shows. «The gala is many things and over the years it has been a meeting of all the filmmakers, but also a television program. We cannot celebrate the first one, we will be responsible, but the second one, "added Barroso. Banderas pointed out that this edition will be" the Covid gala and it will already be marked in the history of cinematography. " The other host of the gala, María Casado, has indicated that the content "has not been modified" despite this latest decision and that it will be an "elegant and sober" gala lasting just over two hours.