58th Ariel Awards

58th Ariel Awards
Official poster
Date	May 28, 2016
Site	National Auditorium Mexico City, Mexico
Highlights
Most nominations	La Delgada Línea Amarilla and Gloria (14)
Television coverage
Network	Canal Once

The 58th Ariel Awards ceremony, organized by the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) will take place on May 28, 2016, at the National Auditorium in Mexico City. During the ceremony, AMACC will present the Ariel Awards in 26 categories honoring films released in 2015. The ceremony, will be televised in Mexico by Canal Once.^[1]

Winners and nominees

The nominees for the 58th Ariel Awards were announced on April 13, 2016 at the Cineteca Nacional in Mexico City, by Dolores Heredia, president of the Academy, and actors Adriana Paz and Juan Manuel Bernal, winners for Best Actress and Best Actor, respectively, at the 57th Ariel Awards.^[1] La Delgada Línea Amarilla and Gloria received the most nominations with fourteen; 600 Millas and Las Elegidas came in second with thirteen apiece.^[1] The Golden Ariel will be awarded to actress Rosita Quintana and film director Paul Leduc.^[1] The ceremony will be held at the National Auditorium in Mexico City for the first time, instead of its traditional venue, Palacio de Bellas Artes, and the capacity will increase to 2,300 seats, according to Heredia.^[2]

Awards

Winners will be listed first and highlighted with boldface^[1]

Best Picture 600 Millas – Lucía Films Gloria – Pelo Suelo Mexico Films and Río Negro La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Springall Pictures Las Elegidas – Canana and Manny Films Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas – Buena Ventura Producciones	Best Director Julio Hernández Cordón – Te Prometo Anarquía David Pablos – Las Elegidas Rodrigo Plá – Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas Gabriel Ripstein – 600 Millas Anwar Safa – El Jeremías
Best Actor Damián Alcázar – La Delgada Línea Amarilla as Toño Kristyan Ferrer – 600 Millas as Arnulfo Rubio Tenoch Huerta – Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso as Charro Misterioso/Alfredo Ríos Galeana Marco Pérez – Gloria as Sergio Andrade Tim Roth – 600 Millas as Hank Harris	Best Actress Geraldine Chaplin – Dólares de Arena as Anne Sofía Espinoza – Gloria as Gloria Trevi Flor Edwarda Gurrola – El Placer es Mío as Rita Verónica Langer – Hilda as Mrs. Le Marchand Jana Raluy – Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas as Sonia Bonet
Best Supporting Actor Joaquín Cosío – La Delgada Línea Amarilla as Gabriel Emilio Echevarría – Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas Noé Hernández – 600 Millas as Martín Silverio Palacios – La Delgada Línea Amarilla as Atayde Gustavo Sánchez Parra – La Delgada Línea Amarilla as Mario	Best Supporting Actress Vanessa Bauche – Elvira, te daría mi vida pero la estoy usando as Luisa Cassandra Ciangherotti – Tiempos Felices as Mónica Villalobos Adriana Paz – Hilda as Hilda Alicia Quiñonez – Las Elegidas as Inés Isela Vega – El Jeremías as Herminia
Breaktrough Male Performance Martín Castro – El Jeremías as Jeremías Óscar Torres – Las Elegidas as Ulises César R. Suárez Morales – Los Jefes as La Bomba Alejandro Guerrero S. – Sopladora de Hojas as Rubén Fabrizio Santini – Sopladora de Horas as Lucas	Breaktrough Female Performance Yanet Mojica – Dólares de Arena as Noeli Karen Romo – El Jeremías as Margarita Andrea Ortega Lee – Ella es Ramona as Ramona Tatiana del Real – Gloria as María Raquenel Portillo Nancy Talamantes – Las Elegidas as Sofía
Best Original Screenplay 600 Millas – Gabriel Ripstein and Issa López Gloria – Sabina Berman El Jeremías – Ana Sofía Clerici La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Celso García Las Elegidas – David Pablos	Best Adapted Screenplay Dólares de Arena – Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán from Les Dollars des Sables by Jean-Noël Pancrazi La Extinción de los Dinosaurios – Luis Ayhllón from La Extinción de los Dinosaurios by Luis Ayhllón Hilda – Andrés Clariound Rangel from Hilda by Marie NDiaye Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas – Lauro Santullo from Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas by Lauro Santullo Yo – Matías Meyer and Alexandre Auger from Histoire du pied et autres fantaisies by J. M. G. Le Clézio
Best Iberoamerican Film El Abrazo de la Serpiente (Colombia) – Ciro Guerra El Clan (Argentina) – Pablo Trapero El Club (Chile) – Pablo Larraín O Lobo Atrás da Porta (Brazil) – Fernando Coimbra Truman (Spain) – Cesc Gay	Best First Feature Film 600 Millas – Gabriel Ripstein El Jeremías – Anwar Safa Gloria – Christian Keller Hilda – Andrés Clariond Rangel La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Celso García
Best Documentary Feature El Hombre Que Vio Demasiado – Trisha Ziff El Paso – Everardo González Los Reyes del Pueblo Que No Existe – Betzabé García Made in Bangkok – Flavio Florencio Tiempo Suspendido – Natalia Bruschtein	Best Documentary Short Subject Ausencias – Tatiana Huezo El Buzo – Esteban Arrangoiz Muchacho en la barra se masturba con rabia y osadía – Julián Hernández Por los Caminos del Sur – Jorge Luis Linares Tobías – Francisca D'Acosta
Best Animated Feature Film El Americano: The Movie – Ricardo Arnaiz and Mike Kunkel La increíble historia del niño de piedra – Miguel Ángel Uriegas, Miguel Bonilla, Jaime Romandía and Pablo Aldrete Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos – Gabriel Riva Palacio and Rodolfo Riva Palacio	Best Animated Short Conejo en la Luna – Melissa Ballesteros El último jaguar – Miguel Anaya Los Ases del Corral – Irving Sevilla Tictactópolis – José Sierra Zimbo – Juan José Medina and Rita Basulto
Best Original Score El Hombre Que Vio Demasiado – Jacobo Lieberman Gloria – Lorne Balfe La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Daniel Guillermo Zlotnik Las Elegidas – Carlo Ayhllón Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso – Andrés Sánchez Maher	Best Live Action Short 3 Variaciones de Ofelia – Paulo César Riqué 24° 51’ Latitud Norte – Carlos Lenin Esclava – Amat Escalante La Teta de Botero – Humberto Busto Malva – Lucero Sánchez Trémulo – Roberto Fiesco
Best Sound 600 Millas – Alejandro de Icaza and Federico González Jordán Gloria – Matías Barberis, Jaime Baksht and Michelle Couttolenc La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Sergio Díaz, Jaime Baksht and Gabriel Coll Las Elegidas – Alejandro de Icaza and Pablo Tamez Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas – Alejandro de Icaza and Axel Muñoz	Best Film Editing 600 Millas – Gabriel Ripstein and Santiago Pérez Rocha Gloria – Adriana Martínez and Patricia Rommel La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Jorge Arturo García Las Elegidas – Miguel Schverdfinger and Aina Calleja Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas – Miguel Schverdfinger
Best Art Direction 600 Millas – Carlos Jacques El Jeremías – Bárbara Enríquez Gloria – Julieta Álvarez Las Elegidas – Daniela Schneider Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso – Bárbara Enríquez and Alejandro García	Best Cinematography Gloria – Martin Boege La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Emiliano Villanueva Las Elegidas – Carolina Costa Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso – Tonatiuh Martínez Te Prometo Anarquía – María José Secco
Best Makeup 600 Millas – Thal Echeveste Gloria – David Gameros El Jeremías – Nayeli Mora Las Elegidas – Adam Zoller Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso – Marco Antonio Hernández	Best Costume Design Gloria – Gilda Navarro Hilda – Mónica Neumaier La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Gabriela Fernández Las Elegidas – Daniela Schneider Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso – Gilda Navarro
Best Special Effects 600 Millas – Alejandro Vázquez Alicia en el País de María – Ricardo Arvizu Familia Gang – José Ángel Cordero La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Alejandro Vázquez Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso – Alejandro Vázquez	Best Visual Effects 600 Millas – Edgardo Mejía El Jeremías – Raúl Prado, Edgar Piña and Juan Carlos Lepe Gloria – Raúl Prado, Edgar Piña and Juan Carlos Lepe La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Miguel de Hoyos, Ricardo Villarreal and Marco Rodríguez Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso – Edgardo Mejía, Francisco Castillo, Rodrigo de Gante, José Luis Gómez, José Ignacio Narváez, Ivonne Orobio and José Manuel Romero

Golden Ariel

• Rosita Quintana
• Paul Leduc

Multiple nominations

The following twelve films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
14	Gloria
	La Delgada Línea Amarilla
13	600 Millas
	Las Elegidas
9	El Jeremías
8	Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso
7	Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas
5	Hilda
3	Dólares de Arena
2	El Hombre Que Vio Demasiado
	Sopladora de Hojas
	Te Prometo Anarquía

Ceremony information

The Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) registered 152 films to compete for the Ariel Awards of 2016 in 26 categories, an increase of 11% from 2015.^[3][4] The films comprised were 71 feature films (including twelve documentaries and nine animated films) and 13 films for the Best Iberoamerican Feature Film.^[4] For the Best Picture award, 41 films were considered, as they meet the requirement of having commercial exhibition in cinemas in Mexico or been exhibited at international film festivals in 2015.^[3][4] The AMACC created a committee of 189 people, who were active members and previous Ariel Award nominees and winners to vote for the 2015 nominees.^[3][4] To promote the award ceremony, a photo exhibition including the actresses awarded the Ariel for Best Lead Actress will be inaugurated on May 2, 2016 at the gates of the Bosque de Chapultepec.^[2] An official tour titled "Rumbo al Ariel" will show the nominated films on movie theaters in Mexico City, including the Cineteca Nacional, Cinemanía Loreto and Cine Tonalá, among others.^[2] Three nominated films have had a successful runs on international film festivals. Las Elegidas was included in the selection for the Un Certain Regard at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.^[1] 600 Millas was awarded the Best First Feature Award at the 65th Berlin International Film Festival and was selected to represent Mexico for the 88th Academy Awards; the box office performance in the country was "discreet", according to newspaper El País with 92,000 attendees.^[5] La Delgada Línea Amarilla was named Best Iberoamerican Film and the Bronze Zenith Award for The Best First Fiction Feature Film at the Montreal World Film Festival and has yet to be premiered on Mexican movie theaters.^[1][5] Meanwhile, Gloria, a biopic about Mexican singer-songwriter Gloria Trevi, was premiered in 2014, but formalities presented by the Mexican Academy prevented it to be postulated the last year.^[5]

Box office performance of nominees

At the time of the nominations announcement on April 13, the highest earner among the nominated films was Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos with MXN$167.8 million in domestic box office receipts, and also was the highest grossing film of 2015 in Mexico.^[6] Only one Best Picture nominee ranked at the top ten, Gloria, at number five with MXN$34.9 million.^[6] At number seven, Elvira, te daría mi vida pero la estoy usando, with earnings of MXN$23.0 million, was nominated for Best Supporting Actress.^[6] As for the rest of the Best Picture nominated films, Las Elegidas will have its commercial release in theaters in Mexico on April 22.^[7] 600 Millas earned MXN$4.4 million in Mexico.^[8]

References

1. Magaña, Arturo (April 13, 2016). "Nominados al Ariel 2016". Cine Premiere (in Spanish). Retrieved April 13, 2016.
2. Huerta, Cesar (April 13, 2016). "Anuncia cintas nominadas al Ariel 2016". El Universal (in Spanish) (Compañía Periodística Nacional). Retrieved April 19, 2016.
3. "Premios Ariel anuncian películas preseleccionadas". Crónica (in Spanish) (La Crónica Diaria). March 13, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
4. "Lista completa de candidatos y ganadores del LVIII Ariel". Cine Toma (in Spanish). April 13, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2016.
5. Beauregard, Luis Pablo (April 13, 2016). "Tres óperas primas parten como favoritas de los premios Ariel". El País (in Spanish) (PRISA). Retrieved April 19, 2016.
6. "Las 10 películas mexicanas más taquilleras del 2015: Un Gallo..., El Gran Pequeño, A la mala...". Aristegui Noticias (in Spanish). December 31, 2015. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
7. "Las elegidas, una historia desgarradora estrena el 22 de abril" (in Spanish). Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía. April 13, 2016. Retrieved April 20, 2016.
8. "600 Millas". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved April 20, 2016.