MADRID -- Take My Eyes, Iciar Bollain's drama about domestic violence, cleaned up at the 18th Goya Awards, earning seven of the 29 honors in an evening that highlighted the growing prevalence of women in the Spanish film industry. Bollain's heart-wrenching tale won not only the best film award for Bollain and Santiago Garcia de Leoniz's production company La Iguana Films, along with Alta Produccion, but all the top honors including those for director (Bollain), actress (Laia Marull), actor (Luis Tosar), supporting actress (Candela Pena) and script (Bollain and Alicia Luna). For the first time, women made a powerful presence at the Goyas by winning not only the director and script nods, but those for new director (Angeles Gonzalez-Sinde for Sleeping Luck) and adapted script (Isabel Coixet for My Life Without Me). Boxoffice success Mortadelo and Filemon: The Great Adventure finished second with five nods, among them production design and editing.
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