58th Ariel Awards


The 58th Ariel Awards ceremony, organized by the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences took take place on May 28, 2016, at the National Auditorium in Mexico City. During the ceremony, AMACC presented the Ariel Award in 26 categories honoring films released in 2015. The ceremony, was televised in Mexico by Canal Once.
Las Elegidas, and Gloria each won five awards, with the former earning the Best Picture honor. Other winners included Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso with four; 600 Millas, and El Hombre Que Vio Demasiado with two; and Ausencias, El Abrazo de la Serpiente, El Jeremías, Hilda, La Increíble Historia del Niño de Piedra, Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas, Trémulo, and Zimbo with one.

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. La Delgada Línea Amarilla and Gloria received the most nominations with fourteen; 600 Millas and Las Elegidas came in second with thirteen apiece. The Golden Ariel was awarded to actress Rosita Quintana and film director Paul Leduc. The ceremony was held at the National Auditorium in Mexico City for the first time, instead of its traditional venue, Palacio de Bellas Artes, in order to increase the capacity to 2,300 seats, according to Heredia.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.

  • Las Elegidas – Canana and Manny Films
  • * 600 Millas – Lucía Films
  • * Gloria – Pelo Suelo Mexico Films and Río Negro
  • * La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Springall Pictures
  • * Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas – Buena Ventura Producciones
  • David Pablos – Las Elegidas
  • * Julio Hernández Cordón – Te Prometo Anarquía
  • * Rodrigo Plá – Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas
  • * Gabriel Ripstein – 600 Millas
  • * Anwar Safa – El Jeremías
  • Marco Pérez – Gloria as Sergio Andrade
  • * 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
  • * Tim Roth – 600 Millas as Hank Harris
  • Sofía Espinosa – Gloria as Gloria Trevi
  • * Geraldine Chaplin – Dólares de Arena as Anne
  • * 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
  • Noé Hernández – 600 Millas as Martín
  • * Joaquín Cosío – La Delgada Línea Amarilla as Gabriel
  • * Emilio Echevarría – Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas as Sandoval Núñez
  • * Silverio Palacios – La Delgada Línea Amarilla as Atayde
  • * Gustavo Sánchez Parra – La Delgada Línea Amarilla as Mario
  • Adriana Paz – Hilda as Hilda
  • * Vanessa Bauche – Elvira, te daría mi vida pero la estoy usando as Luisa
  • * Cassandra Ciangherotti – Tiempos Felices as Mónica Villalobos
  • * Alicia Quiñonez – Las Elegidas as Inés
  • * Isela Vega – El Jeremías as Herminia
  • Martín Castro – El Jeremías as Jeremías
  • * Alejandro Guerrero – Sopladora de Hojas as Rubén
  • * Fabrizio Santini – Sopladora de Hojas as Lucas
  • * César R. Suárez Morales – Los Jefes as La Bomba
  • * Óscar Torres – Las Elegidas as Ulises
  • Nancy Talamantes – Las Elegidas as Sofía
  • * Yanet Mojica – Dólares de Arena as Noeli
  • * Karen Momo – El Jeremías as Margarita
  • * Andrea Ortega-Lee – Ella es Ramona as Ramona
  • * Tatiana del Real – Gloria as María Raquenel Portillo
  • Las Elegidas – David Pablos
  • * 600 Millas – Gabriel Ripstein and Issa López
  • * Gloria – Sabina Berman
  • * El Jeremías – Ana Sofía Clerici
  • * La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Celso García
  • Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas – Lauro Santullo from her novel
  • * Dólares de Arena – Israel Cárdenas and Laura Amelia Guzmán from the novel Les Dollars des Sables by Jean-Noël Pancrazi
  • * La Extinción de los Dinosaurios – Luis Ayhllón from his play
  • * Hilda – Andrés Clariound Rangel from the play Hilda by Marie NDiaye
  • * Yo – Matías Meyer and Alexandre Auger from the short story Histoire du pied et autres fantaisies by J. M. G. Le Clézio
  • El Abrazo de la Serpiente – Ciro Guerra
  • * El Clan – Pablo Trapero
  • * El Club – Pablo Larraín
  • * O Lobo Atrás da Porta – Fernando Coimbra
  • * Truman – Cesc Gay
  • 600 Millas – Gabriel Ripstein
  • * El Jeremías – Anwar Safa
  • * Gloria – Christian Keller
  • * Hilda – Andrés Clariond Rangel
  • * La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Celso García
  • 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
  • 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
  • La Increíble Historia del Niño de Piedra – Miguel Ángel Uriegas, Miguel Bonilla, Jaime Romandía and Pablo Aldrete
  • * ' – Ricardo Arnaiz and Mike Kunkel
  • * Un Gallo con Muchos Huevos – Gabriel Riva Palacio and Rodolfo Riva Palacio
  • Zimbo – Juan José Medina and Rita Basulto
  • * Conejo en la Luna – Melissa Ballesteros
  • * El último jaguar – Miguel Anaya
  • * Los Ases del Corral – Irving Sevilla
  • * Tictactópolis – José Sierra
  • 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
  • Trémulo – Roberto Fiesco
  • * 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
  • Gloria – Matías Barberis, Jaime Baksht and Michelle Couttolenc
  • * 600 Millas – Alejandro de Icaza and Federico González Jordán
  • * 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
  • Gloria – Adriana Martínez and Patricia Rommel
  • * 600 Millas – Gabriel Ripstein and Santiago Pérez Rocha
  • * La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Jorge Arturo García
  • * Las Elegidas – Miguel Schverdfinger and Aina Calleja
  • * Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas – Miguel Schverdfinger
  • Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso – Bárbara Enríquez and Alejandro García
  • * 600 Millas – Carlos Jacques
  • * El Jeremías – Bárbara Enríquez
  • * Gloria – Julieta Álvarez
  • * Las Elegidas – Daniela Schneider
  • Las Elegidas – Carolina Costa
  • * Gloria – Martin Boege
  • * La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Emiliano Villanueva
  • * Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso – Tonatiuh Martínez
  • * Te Prometo Anarquía – María José Secco
  • Gloria – David Gameros
  • * 600 Millas – Thal Echeveste
  • * El Jeremías – Nayeli Mora
  • * Las Elegidas – Adam Zoller
  • * Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso – Marco Antonio Hernández
  • Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso – Gilda Navarro
  • * Gloria – Gilda Navarro
  • * Hilda – Mónica Neumaier
  • * La Delgada Línea Amarilla – Gabriela Fernández
  • * Las Elegidas – Daniela Schneider
  • Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso – Alejandro Vázquez
  • * 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 – Charlie Iturriaga and Natalia de la Garza'
  • * 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

    • Golden Ariel

  • Rosita Quintana
  • Paul Leduc

    Multiple nominations and awards

    • The following twelve films received multiple nominations:
    NominationsFilm
    14Gloria
    14La Delgada Línea Amarilla
    13600 Millas
    13Las Elegidas
    9El Jeremías
    8Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso
    7Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas
    5Hilda
    3Dólares de Arena
    2El Hombre Que Vio Demasiado
    2Sopladora de Hojas
    2Te Prometo Anarquía

    Films that received multiple awards:
    AwardsFilm
    5Gloria
    5Las Elegidas
    4Mexican Gangster: La Leyenda del Charro Misterioso
    2600 Millas
    2El Hombre Que Vio Demasiado

    Ceremony information

    The Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences registered 152 films to compete for the Ariel Awards of 2016 in 26 categories, an increase of 11% from 2015. The films comprised were 71 feature films and 13 films for the Best Iberoamerican Feature Film. 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. 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. To promote the award ceremony, a photo exhibition showing the actresses awarded the Ariel for Best Lead Actress was inaugurated on May 2, 2016 at the gates of the Bosque de Chapultepec. An official tour titled "Rumbo al Ariel" showed the nominated films on movie theaters in Mexico City, including the Cineteca Nacional, Cinemanía Loreto and Cine Tonalá, among others. 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. 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. 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. 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 that year.

    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. Only one Best Picture nominee ranked at the top ten, Gloria, at number five with MXN$34.9 million. 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. As for the rest of the Best Picture nominated films, Las Elegidas had its commercial release in theaters in Mexico on April 22 and was made available for streaming via Netflix on May 8. 600 Millas earned MXN$4.4 million in Mexico.