2012 Premios Ariel (Ariel Awards) for Mexican film – nominations

The Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences) announced the full nominations for their 54th Premios Ariel (Ariel Awards) for Mexican film.

Everardo Gout's thriller Días de gracia (Days of Grace) led the way with fifteen nominations. It nods included Best Picture, Director, Actor (Tenoch Huerta), Supporting Actress (Eileen Yáñez) and Supporting Actor (both Krystyan Ferrer and Mario Zaragoza).

Following closely with fourteen bids was Emilio Portes' comedy Pastorela. Its mentions included Best Picture, Director, Actor (Joaquín Cosío), Supporting Actor and Screenplay.

Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala was the other nominee for Best Picture and Director. However, its only other nomination was for Noé Hernández as Best Actor.

The ceremony for the 54th Premios Ariel will take place on June 2 in Mexico City.

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Complete list of nominations for the 54th Premios Ariel

Best Picture
Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Miss Bala
Pastorela

Best Director
Everardo Gout, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Gerardo Naranjo, Miss Bala
Emilio Portes, Pastorela

Best Actress
Magda Vizcaíno, Martha
Teresa Sánchez, Verano de Goliat (Summer of Goliath)
Irán Castillo, Victorio

Best Actor
Tenoch Huerta, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Noé Hernández, Miss Bala
Joaquín Cosío, Pastorela

Best Supporting Actress
Norma Angélica, Acorazado (Battleship)
Eileen Yáñez, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Nailea Norvind, La otra familia (The Other Family)

Best Supporting Actor
Krystyan Ferrer, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Mario Zaragoza, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Carlos Cobos, Pastorela
Roberto Sosa, Victorio

Best Original Screenplay
Álvaro Curiel, Acorazado (Battleship)
Jorge A. Estrada and Alfredo Castañeda, La revolución de Juan Escopeta (The Revolution of Juan Escopeta)
Emilio Portes, Pastorela

Best Cinematography
Sebastián Hiriart, A tiro de piedra (A Stone's Throw Away)
Luis David Sansanz, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Damián García, Pastorela

Best Editing
Hervé Schneid, José Salcedo and Everardo Gout, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Juan Manuel Figueroa, El cielo abierto (The Open Sky)
Rodrigo Ríos and Emilio Portes, Pastorela

Best Original Music
Atticuss Ross, Sigeru Umebayashi, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Gerard Pastor, La maleta mexicana (The Mexican Suitcase)
Aldo Max Rodríguez, Pastorela

Best Sound
Vincent Arnardi, Enrique Greiner, Frédérique Le Louet and Fernando Cámara, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Mario Martínez, Miguel Hernández and Isabel Muñoz, Pastorela
Lena Esquenazi, Diego Gat and Pablo Tamez, Te extraño (I Miss You)

Best Art Direction
Bernardo Trujillo, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Emilio Basaldúa, El mural (The Mural)
Alejandro García, Pastorela

Best Costume Design
Graciela Galán, El mural (The Mural)
Gabriela Fernández, Pastorela
Mónica Neumaier, Te extraño (I Miss You)

Best Make-Up
Felipe Salazar, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Beatuska Stanislaw, El mural (The Mural)
Roberto Ortiz, Pastorela

Best Special Effects
Ricardo Arvizu, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Daniel Cordero chovy, Pastorela
Alex Vázquez, Salvando al soldado Pérez (Saving Private Perez)

Best Visual Effects
Buf Compagnie, Días de gracia (Days of Grace)
Gretel Studio, Pastorela
Raúl Prado, Edgar Mejía and José Carlos García de Letona, Salvando al soldado Pérez (Saving Private Perez)

Best First Film
A tiro de piedra (A Stone's Throw Away), Sebastián Hiriart
Días de gracia (Days of Grace), Everardo Gout
El lugar más pequeño (The Tiniest Place), Tatiana Huezo

Best Documentary
El cielo abierto (The Open Sky), Everardo González
El lugar más pequeño (The Tiniest Place), Tatiana Huezo
Morir de Pie (Die Standing Up), Jacaranda Correa
Presunto Culpable (Presumed Guilty), Roberto Hernández and Geoffrey Smith
Príncipe Azteca (Aztec Prince), A. Fernández

Best Short Fiction Film
El pescador (The Fisherman), Samantha Pineda
Juan y la borrega (John and the Ram), J. Xavier Velasco
Mari pepa, Samuel Isamu Kishi Lespo

Best Documentary Short
Extraño rumor de la tierra cuando se abre un surco (The Strange Sound of the Land Being Opened in a Furrow), Juan Manuel Sepúlveda
Y retiemble en sus centros la tierra (And Let the Earth Tremble at Its Centres), Patricia Martínez
Yuban, Ya'asib Vázquez Colmenares

Best Animated Short
Mutatio (Mutant), León Fernández
Prita noire (Black Doll), Sofía Carrillo

Best Ibero-American Film
La Hora Cero (The Zero Hour), Diego Velasco (Venezuela)
Pa Negre (Black Bread), Agustí Villaronga (Spain)
Violeta se fue a los cielos (Violeta Went to Heaven), Andrés Wood (Chile)