page_title: Ariel Award for Best Director
section_title: Winners and nominees
hierarchical_section_title: Ariel Award for Best Director / Winners and nominees
caption_attribution_description: El director de cine chileno Miguel Littín durante el encuentro con directores y guionistas de cine agrupados en la Asociación Gremial de Guionistas de Chile celebrado por la presidenta Michelle Bachelet en noviembre de 2013.
context_page_description: The Ariel Award for Best Director is an award presented by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas in Mexico. It is given in honor of a film director who has exhibited outstanding directing while working in the Mexican film industry. In 1947, the 1st and 2nd Ariel Awards were held, with Roberto Gavaldón and Emilio "El Indio" Fernández winning for the films La Barraca and Enamorada, respectively. With the exception of the years 1959 to 1971, when the Ariel Awards were suspended, the award has been given annually. Nominees and winners are determined by a committee formed every year consisting of academy members, previous winners and individuals with at least two Ariel nominations; the committee members submit their votes through the official AMACC website.
  In 1953, filmmakers Luis Buñuel, Alfredo B. Crevenna and Gavaldón were nominated, but no winner was declared. Carlos Carrera and Fernández hold the record for most wins in the category, with four each. Carerra's El Crimen del Padre Amaro was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2003.
caption: Miguel Littín won for Actas de Marusia (1976).
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