The Honorary Goya Award It is the award granted by the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain to a filmmaker of any of the specialties in recognition of a lifetime of dedication to the film industry..
These awards were granted for the first time during the I edition of 1986. This year, Narciso ‘Chicho’ Ibañez Serrador, will receive the Goya of Honor 2019. The director will receive the award for paving the way for an entire generation of Spanish filmmakers and for his exceptional contribution to genre cinema.
Creator of cult films of genre cinema such as Who can kill a child? and The residence, Narciso ‘Chicho’ Ibáñez Serrador, the man who helped popularize horror and fantasy cinema in Spain.
The Board of Directors of the Film Academy agreed to recognize the filmmaker, television director, screenwriter, theater director and actor with the honorary award from the Spanish film awards for being a unique and original creator of nightmares, pave the way for an entire generation of Spanish filmmakers, who have always recognized their influence, and for his contribution to the fantastic, suspense and terror.
His legacy in the seventh art continues in internationally recognized directors such as Juan Antonio Bayona, Rodrigo Cortes, Alejandro Amenábar, Álex de la Iglesia, Jaume Balagueró, Mateo Gil, Enrique Urbizu and Paco Plaza, among others. Together with the last five he developed in 2006 Movies to not sleep, series of six tv movies horror, of those that Ibáñez Serrador directed The blame.
The trajectory of the “shy” man who scared, entertained and made the public think, was recognized with the National Television Award in 2010, the Master of Fantastic Award at the Nocturna Festival, the Ondas Award for Best Program, Antena de Oro awards, Iris Award and Feroz de Honor Award, among other awards, to which is now added the Goya of Honor 2019.
