65th Ariel Awards

The 65th Ariel Awards ceremony, presented by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, took place at the Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara, Jalisco on 9 September 2023.

65th Ariel Awards
Date	9 September 2023
Site	Teatro Degollado Guadalajara, Mexico
Highlights
Best Picture	Northern Skies Over Empty Space
Most awards	Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (8)
Most nominations	Huesera: The Bone Woman (17)
Television coverage
Network	Canal 22

Nominees

The nominations were read at Museo Tamayo de Arte Contemporáneo on 20 June 2023. They are listed as follows:

Best Picture

• Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • La caída
  • La civil

Best Director

• Alejandro González Iñárritu – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • Natalia Beristáin – Noise
  • Michelle Garza Cervera – Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Alejandra Márquez Abella – Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Lucía Puenzo – La caída

Best Actor

• Daniel Giménez Cacho – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • Álvaro Guerrero – La civil
  • Cuauhtli Jiménez – Finlandia
  • Hernán Mendoza – The Box
  • Gerardo Trejoluna – Northern Skies Over Empty Space

Best Actress

• Arcelia Ramírez – La civil
  • Marta Aura – Coraje
  • Julieta Egurrola – Noise
  • Natalia Solián – Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Karla Souza – La caída

Best Supporting Actress

• Úrsula Pruneda – Trigal
  • Mayra Batalla – Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Dolores Heredia – Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Martha Claudia Moreno – Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Nicolasa Ortiz Monasterio – Trigal

Best Supporting Actor

• Raúl Briones – Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Fernando Bonilla – Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Juan Daniel García Treviño – La civil
  • Jorge A. Jiménez – La civil
  • Francisco Rubio – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths

Best Breakthrough Performance

• Emilia Berjón – Trigal
  • Eustacio Ascacio – Red Shoes
  • Déja Ebergengi – La caída
  • Diego Armando Lara – El reino de Dios
  • Isabel Luna – Huesera: The Bone Woman

Best Original Screenplay

• Abia Castillo, Michelle Garza Cervera — Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Alejandra Márquez Abella, Gabriel Nuncio — Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Mónica Herrera, Samara Ibrahim, Tatiana Mereñuk, Lucía Puenzo, María Renée Prudencio — La caída
  • Paula Markovitch, Laura Santullo, Lorenzo Vigas — The Box
  • Habacuc Antonio de Rosario, Teodora Mihai — La civil

Best Cinematography

• Darius Khondji — Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • Claudia Becerril Bulos — Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Nur Rubio Sherwell — Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Dariela Ludlow — Noise
  • Serguei Saldívar Tanaka — Red Shoes

Best Original Score

• Camilla Uboldi — Red Shoes
  • Bryce Dessner, Alejandro G. Iñárritu — Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • Philip Glass, Leonardo Heiblum — Cartas a distancia
  • Tomás Barreiro — Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Gibrán Andrade, Rafael Manrique — Huesera: The Bone Woman

Best Sound

• Nicolas Becker, Martín Hernández, Ken Yasumoto, Frankie Montano, Jon Taylor, Santiago Núñez — Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • Pablo Betancourt, Zulu González, Yuri Laguna, Gerardo Villareal — Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Christian Giraud, Pablo Lach, Omar Pareja — Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Jean-Stephane Garbe, Federico González Jordán, Valérie Le Docte — La civil
  • Thomas Becka, Carlos Cortés, Raúl Locatelli, Victor Tendler — Robe of Gems

Best Editing

• Alejandro G. Iñárritu — Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • Miguel Schverdfinger — Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Adriana Martínez — Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Alain Dessauvage — La civil
  • Miguel Schverdfinger — Noise

Best Art Direction

• Eugenio Caballero — Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • Sandra Cabriada — Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Ana Bellido — Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Daniela Schneider — The Box
  • Nohemí González — Red Shoes

Best Makeup

• Adam Zoller — Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Lucy Betancourt — Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • Pedro Guijarro — Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Marco Jiménez — Finlandia
  • Alfredo García — La civil

Best Costume Design

• Anna Terrazas — Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • Amanda Cárcamo — Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Mayra Juárez — The Mighty Victoria
  • Estrella Vázquez — Finlandia
  • Gabriela Gower — Huesera: The Bone Woman

Best Special Effects

• Raúl Camarera, Gustavo Campos, Miguel Ángel Rodríguez, Juan Carlos Santos — Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Luis Eduardo Ambriz — Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Elliot Rebollar Feregrino — The Mighty Victoria
  • Gregorio Vega López — La caída
  • Yoshiro Hernández, Roberto Ortiz — Mal de ojo

Best Visual Effects

• Guillaume Rocheron, Olaf Wendt — Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths
  • Raúl Luna — Northern Skies Over Empty Space
  • Raúl Luna — Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Raúl Luna — La exorcista
  • Mevlana Rumi, Ariel Gordon — Mal de ojo

Best First Work

• Huesera: The Bone Woman
  • Robe of Gems
  • Pedro
  • Trigal
  • Red Shoes

Best Ibero-American Film

• Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
  • 1976 (Chile)
  • The Beasts (Spain)
  • Carajita (Dominican Republic)
  • The Kings of the World (Colombia)

Best Documentary Feature

• Dioses de México
• Teorema de tiempo
  • Cartas a distancia
  • Home Is Somewhere Else
  • Users

Best Animated Feature Film

• Home Is Somewhere Else
  • Águila y Jaguar: Los guerreros legendarios

Best Short Film

• Agustina
  • Aire
  • El grillo
  • En cualquier lugar
  • Pitbull

Best Animated Short Film

• El año del radio
  • Bouclette
  • K8
  • La melodía torrencial
  • Los cuervos

Best Documentary Short Film

• Las nubes son de música
  • La evaluación
  • Mi reino
  • Mira el cielo
  • No te agüites