65th Ariel Awards

65th Ariel Awards
Date	September 9, 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

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.

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