Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Woody Allen's Vicky Cristina Barcelona won Penélope Cruz the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 81st Academy Awards in February 2009 — Cruz's first Oscar, and one of the few times an entirely Spanish-language acting performance has won an Oscar in any acting category (the central scenes between Cruz and Javier Bardem are in Spanish, with subtitles). She also won the BAFTA in the same category. The film won the Golden Globe for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy at the 66th Golden Globes the same season.

The film is the second of Allen's so-called European mid-career features after Match Point (2005, set in London) and was the project that established the production model — a major American director shooting overseas with substantial European-tax-credit financing — that Allen would extend through You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (London), Midnight in Paris (Paris), To Rome with Love (Rome), and several subsequent productions. The Spanish production was financed in part by Mediapro and the Catalan tourism authorities, who provided substantial location-shooting access in Barcelona.

The cast is led by Scarlett Johansson, Rebecca Hall, Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem, with Patricia Clarkson and Chris Messina in supporting roles. Cruz and Bardem married in 2010, two years after the film's release; their on-screen relationship in the film is now widely noted as the start of their off-screen partnership. Cinematography is by Javier Aguirresarobe, who would shoot Allen's later Vicky Cristina-era European productions Midnight in Paris and To Rome with Love. The film grossed over $96 million worldwide on a budget of approximately $15 million.