The Goya Award for Best Director is one of the Goya Awards, Spain's principal national film awards. The category has been presented ever since the first edition of the Goya Awards. Fernando Fernán Gómez was the first winner of this award for his film Voyage to Nowhere.
Fernando Trueba has won this award twice, for Twisted Obsession (1989) and Belle Époque (1992).
Carlos Saura won for ¡Ay, Carmela! (1990).
Luis García Berlanga won for Everyone Off to Jail (1993).
The Good Boss is a 2021 Spanish comedy-drama film directed and written by Fernando León de Aranoa and starring Javier Bardem. A corporate satire, the plot tracks a charismatic and manipulative factory owner meddling in the lives of his employees.
León de Aranoa wins the award for Best Original Screenplay at the 13th CiBRA Festival in Toledo (November 2021)