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Festivals
1988
Cannes Film Festival
San Remo Film Festival
Brussels Royal Cinemateque
Venice Biennale
New York Film Festival.
1989
New Delhi Film Festival
Hong-Kong Film Festival
Valladolid Film Festival
Chinese Cinemateque Film Series
Biennale, Venice Film Festival
1990
Zurich Museum Film Festival

Awards
1988
John Labatt Classic Film for Most Popular Film. Toronto Film Festival.
Ciak for Best Actress, Carmen Maura. Venice Film Festival.
For Best Plot and Best Screenplay. Venice Film Festival.
Selected by the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts for its 26th Opening Ceremony.
Berlin European Film Awards for Best Young Film and Best Actress, Carmen Maura.
Best Foreign Film of the Year. New York Critics Association.
D. W. Griffith for Best Film in a Foreign Language. National Board of Review of Motion Pictures.
Golden Globe Nomination for Best Foreign Film
Oscar Nomination for Best Foreign Film.
ACE (Asociación de Cronistas de Espectáculos de Nueva York) for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress (Carmen Maura).
RNE Sant Jordi, popular voting, for Best Spanish Film.
Onda Madrid for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress (Carmen Maura).and Best Supporting Actress (Maria Barranco).
Best Foreign Film by "Premiere", New York (reader's voting).
Claqueta, by Radio Miramar, Barcelona, for Best Spanish Film (popular voting.
Asociación de Escritores Cinematográficos de Andalucía for Best Spanish Film.
1989
David Di Donatello for Best Director.
Best Foreign Film Nomination British Academy of Film and Televisión Awards (BAFTA).
Goya for Best Film, Best Screenplay, Best Actress (Carmen Maura), Best Supporting Actress (Maria Barranco) and Best Editing (Jose Salcedo).
Goya Nominations for Best Director, Best Supporting Actor (Guillermo Montesinos), Best Production Manager (Esther García), Best Photography (Jose Luis Alcaine), Best Art Direction (Felix Murcia), Best Costume Design (Jose Maria de Cossio), Best Makeup (Gregorio Ross), Best Sound (Gilles Ortion), Best Visual Effects (Reyes Abades), Best Hairstyle (Jesus Moncusi).
Orson Welles for Best Author (Writer-Director) of the Year in a foreign language.
Fotogramas for Best Actress (Carmen Maura) and Best Actor (Antonio Banderas)
De Película (Spanish TV program), critics' and other film professionals' voting, for Best Film, Best Director and Best Actress (Carmen Maura).
Nastro D'Argento for Best Director. Italian Critics Association.
For Best Spanish Comedy of the Eighties, Benicarlo International Comedy Festival.