Ariel Awards 2009
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 best supporting actor (Héctor Herrera). The night’s biggest winner, however, was Rodrigo Plá’s drama Desierto adentro, set during Mexico’s Cristero War, with eight awards including best actor (Mario Zaragoza) and best original screenplay. Box-office hit Arrancame la vida / Tear This Heart Out, Mexico’s submission for the 2009 foreign-language film Academy Award, failed to get a best picture nod [...]
by Anna Robinson | March 31, 2009
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2004 AFI FEST Awards Winners
Terry George’s Hotel Rwanda (above) has won the top audience award at the 2004 edition of AFI Festival, while Temporada de patos / Duck Season, by Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke, won the Grand Jury Prize for best feature film in competition.
The Jury Prize in the International Shorts Competition went to Taika Waititi’s Two Cars, One Night from New Zealand, with a special mention to Chris Landreth’s Ryan, from Canada. Another Canadian picture, The Take, directed by Avi Lewis, won the Documentary Prize. Robin Scovill’s American-made The Other Side of AIDS received a special mention.
Other audience award winners (audiences voted on all films shown at the ten-day festival) were Neele Leana Vollmar’s Meine Eltern / My [...]
by Andre Soares | November 15, 2004
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Tags: AFI FEST, Don Cheadle, Duck Season, Fernando Eimbcke, Film Awards, Film Festivals, Gay Republicans, Hotel Rwanda, House of Flying Daggers, Wash Westmoreland
