Ariel Awards Articles

2009 Ariel Awards 2009 Ariel nominations: Feb. 27, 2009 2009 Ariel winners: National Auditorium in Mexico City on March 31, 2009 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Fernando Eimbcke's minimalist comedy Lake Tahoe presents a series of vignettes showing a small-town teenager (Diego Cataño) trying to cope with the death of his father. Lake Tahoe won three Ariels: best film, best director, and [...]

Guillermo del Toro's dark fairy-tale El laberinto del fauno / Pan's Labyrinth was the big winner at the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 49th Ariel Awards ceremony held at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City on Mar. 20. Set in the 1940s, the Mexican-Spanish co-production about a young girl's entry into a fantastic world — so as to escape from [...]

Mezcal by Ignacio Ortiz This year's round of major North American academy awards ended earlier this evening with the presentation of the Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' 2005 Ariel Awards at a ceremony held at the Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Just like at the American Academy Awards, which featured a Crash/Brokeback Mountain split, the Ariel statuettes for best director [...]

2006 Ariel Awards 2006 Mexican Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Ariel nominations: Feb. 10, 2006 2006 Ariel winners: Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City on March 14, 2006 ("*" denotes the winner in each category)   Felipe Cazals' downbeat Las vueltas del Citrillo / The Citrillo Turns, Ignacio Ortiz's psychological drama Mezcal (above), and Ricardo Benet's surreal coming-of-age tale Noticias lejanas / [...]