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57th Ariel Awards
The 57th Ariel Awards ceremony, organized by the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) took place on May 27, 2015, in Mexico City. During the ceremony, AMACC presented the Ariel Award in 25 categories honoring films released in 2014. ''Güeros'' received five awards out of 12 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director for Alonso Ruizpalacios. ''Cantinflas'', ''Obediencia Perfecta'', and ''Las Oscuras Primaveras'' followed with three awards; ''La Tirisia'' and ''Visitantes'' with two; and ''Seguir Viviendo'', '' Relatos Salvajes'', '' H20mx'', ''El Penacho de Moctezuma. Plumaria del México Antiguo'', ''El Modelo de Pickman'' and ''Ramona'' with one. Awards Winners will be listed first and highlighted with boldface. Special awards *Golden Ariel – Bertha Navarro *Special Silver Ariel – Miguel Vázquez *Special recognition – José Emilio Pacheco, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, and Vicente Leñero Vicente Leñero Otero (June 9, 1933 – Dece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Güeros
''Güeros'' is a 2014 Mexican road comedy-drama film written and directed by Alonso Ruizpalacios. Set in Mexico City in 1999, the film tells the story of three restless teenagers searching for a folk-rocker during the Mexican capital's student strike. The film won five Ariel Awards, including Best Picture in 2015. Plot In 1999, Tomás, a teenager from Veracruz, is sent to live with his brother Sombra in Mexico City after an incident with water balloons. Sombra lives with Santos, a fellow student, because of the CGH strike. They spend their time in their apartment in Copilco doing nothing, without money and with little food, they drink alcohol, smoke tobacco and steal electricity from the neighbor downstairs. They learn that their father's musical idol, Epigmenio Cruz, who according to legend "once made Bob Dylan cry" is in a hospital on the verge of death. The brothers and Santos embark on a journey to get Epigmenio to sign a cassette that once belonged to their father. During thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernesto Contreras (director)
Ernesto Contreras (born 1969 in Veracruz, Veracruz) is a Mexican film director and screenwriter. Contreras graduated from the Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos of the UNAM. His shorts have received several national and international awards, like the Ariel Award of the Mexican Academy for ''Best Short Film'' in 2004, for The non-invited. In 2007, ''Párpados azules'' (''Blue Eyelids''), his first feature-film received the Best Iberoamerican Film and Script awards, as well as the Mezcal Award of the Young Jury in the XXII Guadalajara International Film Festival. He was later nominated for the Camera d’Or of the 60th Cannes Film Festival competing in the official selection of the 46th International Critics' Week. In September of that same year, he received a Special Mention in the San Sebastián International Film Festival, and he also received the National University Distinction Award in Artistic Creation. In 2008, the Sundance Film Festival and the Miami Interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ilse Salas
Ilse Salas (born 26 August 1981) is a Mexican actress. She appeared in more than fifteen films since 2010. For her lead role in the films '' Güeros'' and '' The Good Girls'' Salas received two nominations for the Ariel Award for Best Actress The Ariel Award for Best Actress (Spanish: Premio Ariel a Mejor Actriz) is an award presented by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC) in Mexico. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding p ... and won for the latter one. Filmography Film roles Television roles References External links * 1981 births Ariel Award winners Living people Mexican film actresses {{Mexico-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra Ciangherotti
Cassandra Ciangherotti (born 14 February 1987) is a Mexican actress and producer, best known for her role in the 2015 Mexican drama film '' The Hours with You'', for which she was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress in that same year. The following year she was nominated in the same category at the Ariel Awards, for her participation in the film '' Tiempos felices'' (2014). Family Cassandra is the daughter of Fernando Luján and Adriana Parra. She is the granddaughter of the actor Alejandro Ciangherotti, and the younger sister of actors Fernando Ciangherotti Fernando Ciangherotti Jr. (born September 6, 1959) is a Mexican television soap opera A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently charac ... and Vanessa Ciangherotti. Filmography Film roles Television roles References External links * 1987 births Living people 21st-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irene Azuela
Irene Azuela (born October 27, 1979) is a Mexican actress and producer. Career Irene Azuela began her career as an actress in 2000's in TV Azteca with three telenovelas: ''Todo por amor'', ''Amores querer con alevosÃa'' and ''La otra mitad del sol''. She began to make films in 2007 in the film '' El búfalo de la noche'', written by Guillermo Arriaga. In 2008 she won as best actress in the Ariel Awards for the film '' Quemar las Naves''. She was the producer of the Canal Once series, ''Paramedicos''. She has participated in several theater plays such as: ''La Gaviota'', '' Salomé'' and ''La obra sangrienta'' written by Oscar Wilde. Personal life Azuela has a daughter, born on March 13, 2015, with her current partner Enrique "Quique" Rangel, bass player of Café Tacuba Café Tacuba (), stylized as Café Tacvba, is a band from Naucalpan de Juárez, State of Mexico. The group gained popularity in the early 1990s. They were founded in 1989, before they had the current lin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adriana Paz
Adriana Paz (born January 13, 1980) is a Mexican actress and dancer. She began her artistic career in Spain, shooting commercials and acting in a play. She was recognized for her role as Toña in the Mexican film ''Rudo y Cursi'' (2009) with a nomination for the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress. She garnered critical praise starring as Miranda in ''Las Horas Muertas'' (2013), for which she was awarded Best Actress at the Morelia International Film Festival. She subsequently starred in the TV series ''Sucedió en Un DÃa'' (2010), '' Capadocia'' (2010), ''El Encanto del Aguila'' (2011), ''Dios, Inc.'' (2016), and '' Vis a vis'' (2018–2019). Paz is also featured in other films, including ''Todos los Besos'' (2007), ''Backyard: El Traspatio'' (2009), '' Not Forgotten'' (2009), ''Un Mexicano Más'' (2009), ''El Mar Muerto'' (2010), ''4 Maras'' (2012), ''Morelos'' (2012), ''Elysium'' (2013), ''Spectre'', and ''Las Aparicio'' (2015). For her lead performance in the drama ''La ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Award For Best Actress
The Ariel Award for Best Actress (Spanish: Premio Ariel a Mejor Actriz) is an award presented by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC) in Mexico. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a Leading actor, leading role while working within the Mexican film industry. In 1947, the 1st and 2nd Ariel Awards were held, with Dolores del RÃo and MarÃa Félix winning for the films ''Las Abandonadas'' and ''Enamorada (film), Enamorada'', respectively. With the exception of the years 1959 to 1971, when the Ariel Awards were suspended, the award has been given annually. Nominees and winners are determined by a committee formed every year consisting of academy members (active and honorary), previous winners and individuals with at least two Ariel nominations; the committee members submit their votes through the official AMACC website. Since its inception, the award has been given to 51 actresses. Blanca Guerra is the mos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cantinflas
Mario Fortino Alfonso Moreno Reyes (12 August 1911 – 20 April 1993), known by the stage name Cantinflas (), was a Mexican comedian, actor, and filmmaker. He is considered to have been the most widely accomplished Mexican comedian and is well known throughout Latin America and Spain. His humor, loaded with Mexican linguistic features of intonation, vocabulary, and syntax, is beloved in all the Spanish-speaking countries of Latin America and in Spain. His abilities gave rise to a range of expressions based on his stage name, including: ''cantinflear'', ''cantinflada'', ''cantinflesco'', ''cantifleando'' and ''cantinflero''. He often portrayed impoverished farmers or peasants of ''pelado'' origin. The character allowed Cantinflas to establish a long, successful film career that included a foray into Cinema of the United States, Hollywood. Charlie Chaplin once commented that he was the best comedian alive, and Moreno has been referred to as the "Charlie Chaplin of Mexico". [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Óscar Jaenada
Óscar Jaenada Gajo (born 4 May 1975) is a Spanish actor. He portrayed Camarón de la Isla in '' Camarón: When Flamenco Became Legend'' (2005) and Cantinflas in ''Cantinflas'' (2014). Career Óscar Jaenada was born on 4 May 1975 in Esplugues de Llobregat, Spain. He began acting at the age of thirteen, performing in Shakespeare plays. Jaenada moved to Madrid to improve his career prospects. He obtained several television roles, appearing in '' 7 vidas'' and ''Hospital Central'', before landing work in feature films. Some of his early roles were in such productions as '' LisÃstrata'' (2002) and ''Descongélate'' (2003). Shortly afterwards, Achero Mañas offered him the leading role in ''November'' (2003). Jaenada was a candidate for the Goya Awards in 2004 as best actor for his role in this production but couldn't attend the ceremony as he was in Argentina filming ''El juego de la verdad''. Upon his return to Spain, he was offered several roles in comedies. Among them was th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tenoch Huerta MejÃa
José Tenoch Huerta MejÃa (; born January 29, 1981) is a Mexican actor. He has appeared in a number of movies in Latin America and Spain, starring in both feature films, short films, and '' Narcos: Mexico'', credited as Tenoch Huerta. He is featured in Mónica Maristain's book, ''30 Actors Made in Mexico''. He plays Namor in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU), starting with the film '' Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'' (2022), in which he is credited as Tenoch Huerta MejÃa. Early life Huerta was born in Ecatepec de Morelos, State of Mexico, on 29 January 1981. His father, a film buff, enrolled him in an acting course with MarÃa Elena Saldaña, and Huerta's later studies were alongside Carlos Torres Torrija and Luis Felipe Tovar. Huerta is of Indigenous descent, with a Nahua maternal great-grandmother and a Purépecha paternal great-great-grandmother. He does not self-identify as Indigenous; however, he encourages people to learn more about their Indigenous heritage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristyan Ferrer
Kristyan Ferrer (born Kristyan Antonio Ferrer Medel; 14 February 1995) is a Mexican actor in various roles since 2001. He played the role of El Smiley in the award-winning film '' Sin Nombre'', directed by US director Cary Joji Fukunaga. For his lead roles in the films '' Guten Tag, Ramón'' (2014) and '' 600 Millas'' (2015), Ferrer won the Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor for this role in '' The Black Minutes'' in 2022. Early life and career Is Ferrer has studied acting, song, dance, and guitar and worked under contract with TV Azteca playing many roles, most notably ''Lo que callamos las mujeres'', in ''Puro loco'', ''Qué buena onda'', ''Ya cayó'' and in the telefilm Milagros, the latter in the lead role. He has also done several television commercials in Mexico and the United States. He has also performed in stage plays, such as ''Beto al Rescate del Tiempo'' (in the title role of Beto) and appears in Nick Lyon’s ''Species: The Awakening'' (2007) as a Mexican boy. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
