# 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.

## 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 [es] 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 [es] – Northern Skies Over Empty Space Lucía Puenzo – La caída [es] |
| Best Actor Daniel Giménez Cacho – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Álvaro Guerrero – La civil Cuauhtli Jiménez [es] – Finlandia [es] 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 [es] |
| 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 [es] – Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths |
| Best Breakthrough Performance Emilia Berjón – Trigal Eustacio Ascacio – Red Shoes Déja Ebergengi – La caída [es] 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 [es], Gabriel Nuncio — Northern Skies Over Empty Space Mónica Herrera, Samara Ibrahim, Tatiana Mereñuk, Lucía Puenzo, María Renée Prudencio — La caída [es] Paula Markovitch [es], Laura Santullo [es], Lorenzo Vigas — The Box Habacuc Antonio de Rosario, Teodora Mihai [es] — 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 [es] — 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 [es] 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 [es] 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 [es] 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 |