Seven Billiard Tables
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Seven Billiard Tables (original Spanish
title: Siete mesas de billar francés) is a 2007
Spanish
film by Gracia Querejeta
. She also co-wrote the story with David Planell.
In 2008, this film was nominated for nine Goya Awards, Spain's most prestigious film awards. It won two awards, including the Best Actress award (for Maribel Verdú
).
XXII Goya Awards
Best Cinematography (Ángel Iguacel, nominee)
Best Director (Gracia Querejeta, nominee)
Best Editing (Nacho Ruiz Capillas, nominee)
Best Film (nominee)
Best Screenplay - Original (David Planell and Gracia Querejeta, nominee)
Best Supporting Actor (Raúl Arévalo, nominee)
Best Supporting Actress (Amparo Baró, winner)
San Sebastián Film Festival
Spanish language
Spanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
title: Siete mesas de billar francés) is a 2007
2007 in film
This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007...
Spanish
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
film by Gracia Querejeta
Gracia Querejeta
Gracia Querejeta is a Spanish film director.Her father is the film producer Elías Querejeta and she studied Ancient History in the Universidad Complutense de Madrid...
. She also co-wrote the story with David Planell.
In 2008, this film was nominated for nine Goya Awards, Spain's most prestigious film awards. It won two awards, including the Best Actress award (for Maribel Verdú
Maribel Verdú
Maribel Verdú is a Spanish actress. She is known to English-speaking audiences for playing Luisa in the 2001 film Y tu mamá también and Mercedes in Guillermo del Toro's 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth. In Spain she is known for films such as Belle Époque, Tetro, and Huevos de oro.Verdú was born María...
).
Cast
- Raúl ArévaloRaúl ArévaloRaúl Arévalo is a Spanish film actor, best known by international audiences for his role in the film Summer Rain, directed by Antonio Banderas.-Career:...
as Fele - Ramón Barea as Jacinto
- Amparo BaróAmparo BaróAmparo Baró San Martín is a Spanish actress. She starting working in theatres with Adolfo Marsillach. She has always been a very important theatre actress and her role of Sole in 7 Vidas made her a popular actress out of theatres.Her career spans 50 years and she has worked in Theatre, film and...
as Emilia - Jesús Castejón as Antonio
- Blanca PortilloBlanca Portillo-Career:Portillo started as an actress in several small theater productions before graduating in drama from the Real Escuela Superior de Arte Dramatico....
as Charo - Victor Valdivia as Guille
- Maribel VerdúMaribel VerdúMaribel Verdú is a Spanish actress. She is known to English-speaking audiences for playing Luisa in the 2001 film Y tu mamá también and Mercedes in Guillermo del Toro's 2006 film Pan's Labyrinth. In Spain she is known for films such as Belle Époque, Tetro, and Huevos de oro.Verdú was born María...
as Ángela
Awards and nominations
- for a complete list of awards and nominations, see this link.
XXII Goya Awards
XXII Goya Awards
The 22nd ceremony of the Annual Academy Awards, the "Goya", took place at the Palacio de Congresos of the Campo de las Naciones in Madrid, Spain on February 3, 2008, presented by Jose Corbacho...
- Best Actress (Blanca Portillo, nominee)
- Best Actress (Maribel Verdú,
San Sebastián Film Festival
San Sebastián International Film Festival
The San Sebastián International Film Festival is an annual FIAPF A category film festival held in the Spanish city of San Sebastián .-History:The festival was founded in 1953...
- Best Actress - Silver Seashell (Blanca Portillo, winner)
- Best Screenplay (David Planell and Gracia Querejeta, tied winner)
- Golden Seashell (Gracia Querejeta, nominee)