Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo is a Spanish film director and screenwriter. His solo directorial debut Stockholm earned him a nomination for the Goya Award for Best New Director in 2014. For his short film Mother, Sorogoyen won the Goya Award for Best Fictional Short Film in 2018 and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 91st Academy Awards. In 2019, Sorogoyen won the Goya Awards for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for The Realm, a feat he repeated in 2023 with The Beasts, which won a total of 9 awards at the 37th Goya Awards, including Best Film. The Beasts also won him the César Award for Best Foreign Film. He often works in tandem with Isabel Peña.
Sorogoyen at the 33rd Goya Awards in 2019
Goya Award for Best New Director
The Goya Award for Best New Director is the Goya awarded yearly to the best debuting director. The award was first presented at the fourth edition of the Goya Awards with Ana Díez being the first winner for her film Ander eta Yul.
The 2024 recipient: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
Ana Díez was the first winner of this award for Ander eta Yul (1989).
Isabel Coixet was nominated for Massa vell per morir jove (1989) and went on to win Best Director twice, for The Secret Life of Words (2005) and The Bookshop (2017).
Agustín Díaz Yanes won for Nobody Will Speak of Us When We're Dead (1995).
