Ariel Award

The Premio Ariel is the most important Mexican Film Prize, which is awarded by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, the Mexican Film Academy, since 1946 year. From 1958 to 1971, there were no awards. Along with the prize for the best Latin American film only filmmaking in Mexico is considered in the award. Chairman of the Coordinating Committee of the award since August 2006, the actor Pedro Armendáriz Bohr.

The price itself is the statuette of a man, the Mexican sculptor Ignacio Asúnsolo has created. The original statue is currently in the film studios Estudios Churubusco in Mexico City. The name Ariel is from a series of short texts called El of the Uruguayan essayist José Enrique Ariel Rodó, inspired the young Latin Americans, especially in the first four decades of the 20th century.

Price lists

• Premio Ariel for Best Picture