56th Ariel Awards

56th Ariel Awards
56th Ariel Awards
Highlights
Best Picture	La Jaula de Oro
Most awards	La Jaula de Oro (9)
Most nominations	Heli and La Jaula de Oro (14)

The 56th Ariel Awards ceremony, organized by the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) took place in 2014, in Mexico City. During the ceremony, AMACC presented the Ariel Award in 23 categories honoring films released in 2013. La Jaula de Oro received nine awards out of 14 nominations, including Best Picture and Best Actor for Brandon López.^[1] Amat Escalante won the accolade for Best Director. Other multiple awarded films included Cinco de Mayo: La Batalla and Ciudadano Buelna with two awards.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface^[1]

Best Picture La Jaula de Oro Club Sandwich Heli Los Insólitos Peces Gato No Quiero Dormir Sola	Best Director Amat Escalante – Heli Fernando Eimbcke – Club Sandwich Francisco Franco – Tercera Llamada Claudia Sainte-Luce – Los Insólitos Peces Gato Diego Quemada-Diez – La Jaula de Oro
Best Actor *Brandon López – La Jaula de Oro* as Juan** Armando Espitia – Heli as Heli Luis Gerardo Méndez – Nosotros Los Nobles as Javier "Javi" Noble Jesús Padilla – Workers as Rafael Harold Torres – La cebra as Odón	Best Actress Adriana Roel – No Quiero Dormir Sola as Dolores Ximena Ayala – Los Insólitos Peces Gato as Claudia Dolores Heredia – Huérfanos as Ana María Escobar María Renée Prudencio – Club Sandwich as Paloma Arcelia Ramírez – Potosí as Estela
Best Supporting Actor Rodolfo Domínguez – La Jaula de Oro as Chauk Ricardo Blume – Tercera Llamada as Eduardo Dagoberto Gama – Nómadas Juan Eduardo Palacios – Heli as Beto Gerardo Taracena – Potosí as Javier	Best Supporting Actress Lisa Owen – Los Insólitos Peces Gato as Martha Sonia Couoh – Potosí as Verónica Mariana Gajá – No Quiero Dormir Sola as Amanda Linda González – Heli as Sabrina Rebecca Jones – Tercera Llamada as Amanda
Best Original Screenplay La Jaula de Oro – Diego Quemada-Diez, Gibrán Portela, and Lucía Carreras Heli – Amat Escalante and Gabriel Reyes Los Insólitos Peces Gato – Claudia Sainte-Luce No Quiero Dormir Sola – Gabriela Vidal and Natalia Beristain Workers – José Luis Valle	Best Adapted Screenplay Tercera Llamada – María Renée Prudencio and Francisco Franco from the play Calígula... Probablemente by Francisco Franco and Ignacio Guzmán Nosotros Los Nobles – Gary Alazraki, Patricio Saiz, and Adrián Zurita from El Gran Calavera by Janet Alcoriza and Luis Alcoriza Levantamuertos – Miguel Núñez from the play Amor Otro by Angel Norzagaray
Best Ibero-American Film Gloria (Chile / Spain) – Sebastián Lelio 15 Años y Un Día (Spain) – Gracia Querejeta Anina (Uruguay) – Alfredo Soderguit Melaza (Cuba) – Carlos Lechuga Wakolda (Argentina) – Lucía Puenzo	Best First Feature Film La Jaula de Oro – Diego Quemada-Diez Halley – Sebastián Hofmann Los Insólitos Peces Gato – Claudia Sainte-Luce No Quiero Dormir Sola – Natalia Beristain Quebranto – Roberto Fiesco
Best Documentary Feature Quebranto – Roberto Fiesco El Alcalde – Emiliano Altuna, Carlos F. Rossini, and Diego Osorno La Huella del Dr. Ernesto Guevara – Jorge Denti Lejanía – Pablo Tamez Sierra Miradas Múltiples, La Máquina Loca – Emilio Maillé	Best Documentary Short Subject Un Salto a la Vida – Eugenio Polgovsky Al Fin del Desierto – Sheila Altamirano B-Boy – Abraham Escobedo Conversaciones de Un Matrimonio – Gilberto González Penilla La Música Silenciada – Andrea Oliva
Best Animated Short Lluvia en los Ojos – Rita Basulto La Casa Triste – Sofía Carrillo Electrodoméstico – Erik de Luna Un Día en Familia – Pedro González ¿Qué Es La Guerra? – Luis Beltrán	Best Original Score La Jaula de Oro – Jacobo Lieberman and Leonardo Heiblum El Alcalde – Daniel Hidalgo Halley – Gustavo Hernández Huérfanos – Jesús Echevarría Workers – José Miguel Enríquez
Best Live Action Short Música Para Después de Dormir – Nicolás Rojas Estatuas – Roberto Fiesco Inframundo – Ana Mary Ramos	Best Sound La Jaula de Oro – Matías Barberis, Raúl Locatelli, and Jaime Baksht Ciudadano Buelna – Samuel Larson, Gabriel Coll, and Miguel Ángel Molina Halley – Raúl Locatelli Heli – Sergio Díaz, Catriel Vildosola, and Vincent Arnardi Tercera Llamada – Matías Barberis, Pablo Tamez, and Jaime Baksht
Best Editing La Jaula de Oro – Paloma López and Felipe Gómez Heli – Natalia López Workers – Óscar Figueroa Jara Miradas Múltiples, La Maquina Loca – Octavio Iturbe Tercera Llamada – Mariana Rodríguez	Best Art Direction Ciudadano Buelna – Lorenza Manrique Heli – Daniela Schneider La Jaula de Oro – Carlos Jacques Los Insólitos Peces Gato – Bárbara Enríquez Workers – Gabriela Santos del Olmo
Best Cinematography La Jaula de Oro – María José Secco Ciudadano Buelna – Martin Boege Fogo – Diego García Heli – Lorenzo Haggerman Workers – César Gutiérrez	Best Makeup Halley – Adam Zoller Ciudadano Buelna – Roberto Ortíz Heli – Jorge Fuentes La Jaula de Oro – Iñaki Legaspi Tercera Llamada – Iñaki Legaspi
Best Costume Design Ciudadano Buelna – Mayra Juárez La Jaula de Oro – Nohemí González Heli – Daniela Schneider Huérfanos – Alejandra Dorantes Tercera Llamada – Adela Cortázar and Jerildy Bosch	Best Special Effects Cinco de Mayo: La Batalla – Alejandro Vázquez Ciudadano Buelna – Jorge Farfán Heli – Alejandro Vázquez, José Luis Pérez, and Carlos Ochoa
Best Visual Effects Cinco de Mayo: La Batalla – Charly Iturriaga Halley – Gustavo Bellón Heli – Rodrigo Echevarría, Andrés Martínez Ríos, Juanma Nogales, Ana Rubio, and Eduardo Villadoms La Jaula de Oro – María José Santa Rita

Multiple nominations and awards

The following sixteen films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
14	Heli
14	La Jaula de Oro
8	Tercera Llamada
7	Los Insólitos Peces Gato
6	Ciudadano Buelna
5	No Quiero Dormir Sola
5	Workers
4	Halley
3	Club Sandwich
	Huérfanos
	Potosí
2	Cinco de Mayo: La Batalla
	El Alcalde
	Nosotros Los Nobles
	Miradas Múltiples, La Máquina Loca
	Quebranto

Films that received multiple awards:

Awards	Film
9	La Jaula de Oro
2	Cinco de Mayo: La Batalla
2	Ciudadano Buelna

References

^ ^a ^b "Nominados para el 56 Ariel". Close Up (in Spanish). April 7, 2014. Archived from the original on 2016-07-01. Retrieved May 19, 2016.

[Ariel-2014-1] "Nominados para el 56 Ariel". Close Up (in Spanish). April 7, 2014. Archived from the original on 2016-07-01. Retrieved May 19, 2016.

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Ariel Awards
Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC)
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