Champions (2018 film)


Champions is a 2018 Spanish comedy-drama film directed by Javier Fesser.

Plot

This movie is inspired by Aderes team in Burjassot, a team created with people with intellectual disabilities that won twelve Spanish championships between 1999 and 2014.
Marco Montes is the assistant coach of the basketball team CB Estudiantes. He is an arrogant man with bad manners, He is fired from his job after an altercation with his head coach during a game. 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 people with disabilities. At first, the news aren't well received by the protagonist, due to how he looks down upon disabled people in general, calling them subnormales, however, as time goes on, he'll realize everything he had yet to learn from these people.

Cast

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.

Awards and nominees

It was selected as the Spanish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 91st Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. The film won three Goya Awards, including Best Film, Best New Actor, and Best Original Song.
The film received five nominations for the 6th Platino Awards, including Best Ibero-American Film and Best Director.