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Champions
Champions
	Theatrical release poster
Spanish	Campeones
Directed by	Javier Fesser
Screenplay by	David Marqués; Javier Fesser;
Story by	David Marqués
Produced by	Gabriel Arias-Salgado; Alexandra Lebret; Álvaro Longoria; Luis Manso;
Starring	Javier Gutiérrez; Juan Margallo; Athenea Mata; Luisa Gavasa; Daniel Freire; Itziar Castro;
Cinematography	Chechu Graf
Edited by	Roberto Bolado; Javier Fesser;
Music by	Rafael Arnau
Production; companies	Películas Pendelton; Rey de Babia AIE; Morena Films; Telefónica Studios;
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date	6 April 2018 (Spain);
Running time	124 minutes
Country	Spain
Language	Spanish
Budget	€4.5 million
Box office	$23.8 million

Champions (Spanish: Campeones) is a 2018 Spanish sports comedy-drama film directed by Javier Fesser and written by Fesser and David Marqués.^[4]^[5] It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.

Plot

This movie is inspired by Aderes team in Burjassot (Valencia), a team created with people with intellectual disabilities that won twelve Spanish championships between 1999 and 2014.^[6]

Marco Montes is the assistant coach of the basketball team CB Estudiantes. He is an arrogant man with bad manners and is fired from his job after pushing the head coach during a game over a disagreement over team strategy. After driving drunk into the back of a police car, Marco is ordered to either spend two years in prison or ninety days of community service, in the form of coaching Los Amigos, a team of basketball players with disabilities. At first, Montes complains about coaching the disabled players calling them subnormales (below normal). However, as he continues to coach the team, he realizes that each of the players has a unique background and they are extremely persistent in working together and playing well.^[7]

Meanwhile, Marco and his wife Sonia are fighting with each other because Sonia wants a child and Marco is not ready yet. In particular, Iván, one of Marco's friends, meets Sonia at a bar and tells her that he is meeting with Marco over the weekend and that she can come to confront Marco then. Iván then proceeds to tell Marco that he is not going to go out with him in an attempt to get some alone time with Sonia because he finds her attractive. However, Marco still shows up and discusses with Sonia, they leave the bar still upset with each other. After Los Amigos's first away game, Marco realizes that it is incredibly difficult to travel with the team given their abrupt and often annoying interactions with the other people on public transportation. Marco tells Sonia about these difficulties, and she helps loan a camper van from her coworker at a sports gear shop. She then joins Marco and his team over several games and their relationship improves.

In the end, Los Amigos place second in the National Series, and Marco agrees to have a child with Sonia. As Marco leaves the Los Amigos team to go back to coaching professionally, he is thanked by all the team members for changing their lives.

Cast

Javier Gutiérrez as Marco Montes
Juan Margallo as Julio
Athenea Mata [es] as Sonia
Luisa Gavasa as Amparo
Daniel Freire as Carrascosa
Itziar Castro as Madre de Jesús
Mariano Llorente [es] as Iván
Julio Fernández
Sergio Olmo
Jesús Lago
José de Luna
Gloria Ramos as Collantes
Fran Fuentes
Alberto Nieto Fernández
Roberto Chinchilla as Ramón
Stefan López
Jesús Vidal as Paquito

Production

The film is a Películas Pendelton, Rey de Babia AIE, Morena Films, and Telefónica Studios production.^[8]

Release

Distributed by Universal Pictures International Spain,^[9] the film was theatrically released in Spain on 6 April 2018.^[10]

Reception

Box office

The film is the highest-grossing Spanish language film of 2018 in Spain, with a box-office taking of €19.1 million from 3.3 million admissions.^[11]

Critical response

Champions has an approval rating of 75% on review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, based on 12 reviews, and an average rating of 6.4/10.^[12]

Accolades

It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated.^[13]^[14] The film won three Goya Awards, including Best Film,^[15] Best New Actor (Jesús Vidal),^[16] and Best Original Song ("Este es el momento", by Coque Malla).^[17]
The film received five nominations for the 6th Platino Awards, including Best Ibero-American Film and Best Director.^[18]


Year	Award	Category	Nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
2019	24th Forqué Awards	Best Film		Won	^[19]^[20]
	24th Forqué Awards	Best Actor	Javier Gutiérrez	Nominated	^[19]^[20]
	6th Feroz Awards	Best Comedy Film		Won	^[21]
		Best Director	Javier Fesser	Nominated
		Best Actor in a Film	Javier Gutiérrez	Nominated
		Best Trailer		Nominated
	33rd Goya Awards	Best Film		Won	^[22]
		Best Director	Javier Fesser	Nominated
		Best Original Screenplay	Javier Fesser, David Marqués	Nominated
		Best Actor	Javier Gutiérrez	Nominated
		Best Supporting Actor	Juan Margallo	Nominated
		Best New Actress	Gloria Ramos	Nominated
		Best New Actor	Jesús Vidal	Won
		Best Editing	Javier Fesser	Nominated
		Best Production Supervision	Luis Fernández Lago	Nominated
		Best Original Song	"Este es el momento" by Coque Malla	Won
		Best Sound	Arman Ciudad, Charly Schmukler, Alfonso Raposo	Nominated
	28th Actors and Actresses Union Awards	Best Film Actor in a Secondary Role	Juan Margallo	Won	^[23]
	6th Platino Awards	Best Ibero-American Film		Nominated	^[24]
		Best Director	Javier Fesser	Nominated
		Best Screenplay	Javier Fesser, David Marqués	Nominated
		Best Actor	Javier Gutiérrez	Nominated
		Cinema and Education in Values		Won

Future

Documentary

A documentary called Ni distintos ni diferentes: Campeones, which tells the true stories of the protagonists of the film, premiered on November 16, 2018 in Spanish theaters.^[25]

Sequel

A sequel called Championext was released on August 18, 2023 in Spanish cinemas.^[26]

Remakes

In 2020, shooting began for an Arabic-language remake under the same name which was released commercially on March 10, 2022 in theaters in Saudi Arabia.^[27]^[28] On April 5, 2022, a German-language remake titled Weil wir Champions sind directed by Christoph Schnee was released.^[29] On March 10, 2023, an English-language remake of the same name directed by Bobby Farrelly was released.^[30]^[31] Sitaare Zameen Par, an Indian remake starring Aamir Khan which serves as a sequel to his 2007 film Taare Zameen Par, is scheduled to release in 2024.^[32]^[33]^[34]

References

^ "'Campeones', 'Handia' y 'Todos los saben' pelearán por ser la candidata española en los 91º Premios Oscar". Redacción AV451. audiovisual451.com. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^ "Campeones (2018)". The Numbers. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^ "Campeones (Champions)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^ Zurro, Javier (5 April 2018). "Los campeones que enseñaron a Fesser que no se dice "subnormales"". El Español. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^ "Fesser atribuye el éxito de "Campeones" a que "hace felices" a los espectadores". EFE. eldiario.es. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^ Herrero, Nacho (18 April 2018). "Bienvenidos al Aderes, el club que ha inspirado la película 'Campeones'". El Periódico (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2018.
^ Holland, Jonathan (23 April 2018). "'Champions' ('Campeones'): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 August 2018.
^ Cabeza, Elisabet (3 February 2019). "'The Realm' and 'Champions' share top honours at Spain's Goya awards". ScreenDaily.
^ "'Campeones' – estreno en cines 6 de abril". Audiovisual451. 2 April 2018.
^ "'Campeones' se estrena con éxito en la taquilla española". Cext. 23 April 2018.
^ Hopewell, John (2 January 2019). "Spain's Box Office Dips Slightly in 2018". Variety.
^ "Champions (2018)". Rotten Tomatoes.
^ Academia de Cine [@Academiadecine] (6 September 2018). "El actor @DanielGrao7 anuncia en la Academia que Campeones, de Javier Fesser es la película que representará a España en la 91 edición de los Oscar en la categoría de Mejor Película de Habla No Inglesa" (Tweet) (in Spanish) – via Twitter.
^ Hopewell, John (6 September 2018). "Javier Fesser's 'Champions' Chosen as Spain's Oscar Submission". Variety. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
^ "'Campeones, gana el Goya a la mejor película". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
^ "Jesús Vidal pone al público en pie con un discurso emocionante como mejor actor revelación". Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (in Spanish). 2 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
^ "'Este es el momento', de Coque Malla, Mejor Canción Original en los Goya". Levante - El Mercantil Valenciano (in Spanish). 2 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
^ Alfonso Cuaron's ‘Roma’ Nabs Nine Nominations for 6th Premios Platino
^ "'Campeones', Carmen y Lola', 'Entre dos aguas' y 'El Reino' optan a la mejor película de ficción de los 24ª Premios Forqué, los primeros del año". Audiovisual451. 30 November 2018.
^ Alcaraz, María (14 January 2019). ""Campeones" triunfa en los premios Forqué y comienza el camino hacia los Goya". abcplay. ABC.
^ Prats, Marina (19 January 2019). "La lista completa de ganadores de los Premios Feroz 2019". HuffPost.
^ "Campeones". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 6 December 2022.
^ Silvestre, Juan (12 March 2019). "'Arde Madrid' arrasa en los Premios de la Unión de Actores". Fotogramas.
^ "Premios Platino 2019: todos los ganadores". Infobae. 12 May 2019.
^ RTVE, PRENSA (2018-11-13). "Llega a los cines el documental 'Ni distintos ni diferentes: Campeones'". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-08.
^ "'Campeonex' el regreso de los Campeones de Javier Fesser ya tiene fecha de estreno". okdiario.com (in Spanish). 2023-01-17. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
^ "'CHAMPIONS' - The Movie Starts Filming in Saudi Arabia - Destination KSA". 2020-02-24. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
^ "Saudi film 'Champions' to be released in March". Arab News. 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2023-06-07.
^ Riedmeier, Glenn. ""Weil wir Champions sind" mit Wotan Wilke Möhring: RTL+-Sportfilm über Inklusion erhält Starttermin". fernsehserien.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-28.
^ O'Rourke, Ryan (5 December 2022). "'Champions' Trailer: Woody Harrelson Coaches Special Olympics Basketball Team to Glory". collider.com.
^ "Tráiler de 'Champions', el remake de 'Campeones' con Woody Harrelson". Cinemanía. 5 December 2022 – via 20minutos.es.
^ "Aamir Khan to star in Hindi remake of Spanish film 'Campeones'? Actor says planning is on". The Economic Times. 2022-03-14. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2023-06-08.
^ "Aamir Khan back to familiar space with Sitaare Zameen Par". mid-day. 5 February 2024.
^ "Aamir Khan announces his next film Sitare Zameen Par, says theme is similar to Taare Zameen Par: 'Moving 10 steps ahead'". Hindustan Times.

External links

Champions at IMDb

[AV451-1] "'Campeones', 'Handia' y 'Todos los saben' pelearán por ser la candidata española en los 91º Premios Oscar". Redacción AV451. audiovisual451.com. 14 August 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018.

[NUM-2] "Campeones (2018)". The Numbers. Retrieved 14 August 2018.

[BOM-3] "Campeones (Champions)". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 14 August 2018.

[El_Español-4] Zurro, Javier (5 April 2018). "Los campeones que enseñaron a Fesser que no se dice "subnormales"". El Español. Retrieved 14 August 2018.

[eldiario.es-5] "Fesser atribuye el éxito de "Campeones" a que "hace felices" a los espectadores". EFE. eldiario.es. 3 May 2018. Retrieved 14 August 2018.

[6] Herrero, Nacho (18 April 2018). "Bienvenidos al Aderes, el club que ha inspirado la película 'Campeones'". El Periódico (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 November 2018.

[HollywoodReporter-7] Holland, Jonathan (23 April 2018). "'Champions' ('Campeones'): Film Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 14 August 2018.

[8] Cabeza, Elisabet (3 February 2019). "'The Realm' and 'Champions' share top honours at Spain's Goya awards". ScreenDaily.

[9] "'Campeones' – estreno en cines 6 de abril". Audiovisual451. 2 April 2018.

[10] "'Campeones' se estrena con éxito en la taquilla española". Cext. 23 April 2018.

[11] Hopewell, John (2 January 2019). "Spain's Box Office Dips Slightly in 2018". Variety.

[12] "Champions (2018)". Rotten Tomatoes.

[91stOscars-13] Academia de Cine [@Academiadecine] (6 September 2018). "El actor @DanielGrao7 anuncia en la Academia que Campeones, de Javier Fesser es la película que representará a España en la 91 edición de los Oscar en la categoría de Mejor Película de Habla No Inglesa" (Tweet) (in Spanish) – via Twitter.

[Spain2-14] Hopewell, John (6 September 2018). "Javier Fesser's 'Champions' Chosen as Spain's Oscar Submission". Variety. Retrieved 6 September 2018.

[15] "'Campeones, gana el Goya a la mejor película". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). 2 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.

[16] "Jesús Vidal pone al público en pie con un discurso emocionante como mejor actor revelación". Corporación de Radio y Televisión Española (in Spanish). 2 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.

[17] "'Este es el momento', de Coque Malla, Mejor Canción Original en los Goya". Levante - El Mercantil Valenciano (in Spanish). 2 February 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2019.

[18] Alfonso Cuaron's ‘Roma’ Nabs Nine Nominations for 6th Premios Platino

[19] "'Campeones', Carmen y Lola', 'Entre dos aguas' y 'El Reino' optan a la mejor película de ficción de los 24ª Premios Forqué, los primeros del año". Audiovisual451. 30 November 2018.

[20] Alcaraz, María (14 January 2019). ""Campeones" triunfa en los premios Forqué y comienza el camino hacia los Goya". abcplay. ABC.

[21] Prats, Marina (19 January 2019). "La lista completa de ganadores de los Premios Feroz 2019". HuffPost.

[22] "Campeones". premiosgoya.com. Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España. Retrieved 6 December 2022.

[23] Silvestre, Juan (12 March 2019). "'Arde Madrid' arrasa en los Premios de la Unión de Actores". Fotogramas.

[24] "Premios Platino 2019: todos los ganadores". Infobae. 12 May 2019.

[25] RTVE, PRENSA (2018-11-13). "Llega a los cines el documental 'Ni distintos ni diferentes: Campeones'". RTVE.es (in Spanish). Retrieved 2023-06-08.

[26] "'Campeonex' el regreso de los Campeones de Javier Fesser ya tiene fecha de estreno". okdiario.com (in Spanish). 2023-01-17. Retrieved 2023-06-07.

[27] "'CHAMPIONS' - The Movie Starts Filming in Saudi Arabia - Destination KSA". 2020-02-24. Retrieved 2023-06-07.

[28] "Saudi film 'Champions' to be released in March". Arab News. 2022-02-26. Retrieved 2023-06-07.

[29] Riedmeier, Glenn. ""Weil wir Champions sind" mit Wotan Wilke Möhring: RTL+-Sportfilm über Inklusion erhält Starttermin". fernsehserien.de (in German). Retrieved 2023-07-28.

[30] O'Rourke, Ryan (5 December 2022). "'Champions' Trailer: Woody Harrelson Coaches Special Olympics Basketball Team to Glory". collider.com.

[31] "Tráiler de 'Champions', el remake de 'Campeones' con Woody Harrelson". Cinemanía. 5 December 2022 – via 20minutos.es.

[32] "Aamir Khan to star in Hindi remake of Spanish film 'Campeones'? Actor says planning is on". The Economic Times. 2022-03-14. ISSN 0013-0389. Retrieved 2023-06-08.

[33] "Aamir Khan back to familiar space with Sitaare Zameen Par". mid-day. 5 February 2024.

[34] "Aamir Khan announces his next film Sitare Zameen Par, says theme is similar to Taare Zameen Par: 'Moving 10 steps ahead'". Hindustan Times.

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Champions (2018 film)

Plot

Cast

Production

Release

Reception

Box office

Critical response

Accolades

Future

Documentary

Sequel

Remakes

See also

References

External links

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