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15th Ariel Awards
The 15th Ariel Awards ceremony, organized by the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (AMACC) took place on May 20, 1973, in Mexico City. During the ceremony, AMACC presented the Ariel Award in 14 categories honoring films released in 1972. '' El Castillo de la Pureza'' and '' Mecánica Nacional'' were the most nominated films, and also the most awarded with five wins each, including a tie for Best Picture, with '' Reed, México Insurgente''. Canadian-Mexican cinematographer Alex Phillips received the Golden Ariel The Golden Ariel ( es, Ariel de Oro) is an award that “symbolizes the work of excellence that a member of the film industry has achieved throughout their career and that has contributed to the development and growth of Mexican cinematography”. ... for his artistic career. Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface. References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ariel Awards, 15 Ariel Awards ceremonies 1973 film awards 1973 in Mexico ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Castle Of Purity
''The Castle of Purity'' ( es, El castillo de la pureza) is a 1972 Mexican drama film directed by Arturo Ripstein. It is based in a real criminal case that took place in Mexico City in 1959. Plot The film depicts a man who keeps his family isolated in his home for years to protect them from "the evil nature of human beings" while inventing, with his wife, rat poison. Cast * Claudio Brook – Gabriel Lima * Rita Macedo – Beatriz * Arturo Beristáin – Porvenir * Diana Bracho – Utopía * Gladys Bermejo – Voluntad * Mario Castillón Bracho – Undercover cop Development According to the director, the film was based on a case that appeared in newspapers in the 1950s, of a man who isolated his family and did not allow them to leave. "There was a lot of talk about the case when I was a little boy." Two works come from the case; a novel by Luis Spota called, "La Carcajadas del Gato", and a play by Sergio Galindo called, "Los Motivos del Lobo". Ripstein had a friend who k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignacio López Tarso
Ignacio López López (born 15 January 1925), known professionally as Ignacio López Tarso, is a Mexican actor of stage, film and television. He has acted in about 50 films and appeared in documentaries and in one short feature. In 1973 he was given the Ariel Award for Best Actor for ''Rosa Blanca'', and the Ariel de Oro lifetime achievement award in 2007. He has also been honored multiple times at the TVyNovelas Awards. Biography Early life and education López was born in Mexico City to parents Alfonso López Bermúdez and Ignacia López Herrera. Because of his father's job, he spent his childhood among several cities including Veracruz, Hermosillo, Navojoa and Guadalajara. His siblings are Alfonso and Marta. At around age 8-9, when he was in Guadalajara, his parents took him to see a play, where he became interested in acting. He lived in Valle de Bravo, Estado de México, where he went to secondary school. Although his family's economic problems kept him from attending high ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anita Blanch
Anita Blanch (July 26, 1910 – April 23, 1983) was a Spanish-born, Mexican actress, who worked in the Golden Age of Mexican cinema. She was nominated for an Ariel Award from the Mexican Academy of Film three times and won the Best Supporting Actress Award from Diosa de Plata (Silver Goddess Award) in 1963. Biography Ana María Blanch Ruiz was born on 26 July 1910 in Sagunto, Valencia. Ana, who went by the name of "Anita" and her sister, actress Isabelita Blanch, who both had interest in the theater, arrived in Mexico in the 1920s. Blanch specialized in comedic plays and her theatrical debut was in a performance of “La cabalgata de los reyes”. Blanch was the first star of the prestigious "Ideal Theater" in Mexico City. She and her sister founded the Compañía de Teatro Anita Blanch (Anita Blanch Theater Company), hiring artists like Ángel Garasa, Rafael Banquells, and Jose Cibrian, among others. Throughout her career, she had several successful theatrical runs, including wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Bracho
Diana Bracho (born Diana Guadalupe Bracho y Bordes Mangel; 12 December 1944, in Mexico City, Mexico) is a Mexican actress. Early life Diana Bracho is the daughter of actor/director Julio Bracho, the niece of actress Andrea Palma and the aunt of actor Julio Bracho (named after his grandfather). Career She made her film debut as a child actress in two of her father's films: ''San Felipe'' (1949) and ''Immaculate Conception'' (1950). She studied Philosophy and Letters in New York. She debuted professionally on stage in the play ''Israfel'' by Abelardo Rodríguez alongside Sergio Bustamante. Her television debut was in 1973. Diana Bracho won the Silver Ariel award twice, the first time in 1973. She won her second Silver Ariel for '' El infierno, de todos tan temído'' and was nominated for Best Actress for ''Letters from Marusia'' (1976) and '' Entre Pancho Villa y una mujer desnuda'' (1996). On August 6, 2002 she was appointed president of the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Award For Best Supporting Actress
The Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actress (Spanish: Premio Ariel a Mejor Coactuación Femenina) is an award presented by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC) in Mexico. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while working within the Mexican film industry. In 1947, the 1st and 2nd Ariel Awards were held, with Lilia Michel winning in both ceremonies for the films ''Un Beso en la Noche'' and '' Vértigo'', 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 (active and honorary), previous winners and individuals with at least two Ariel nominations; the committee members submit their votes through the official AMACC website. Since its inception, the award has been given to 52 actresses. Ana Ofelia Murguía and Isela ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Héctor Suárez
Héctor Suárez Hernández (; 21 October 19382 June 2020) was a Mexican actor, comedian, director and also CTO of Hatch. He appeared in about a hundred films and television shows in a career that spanned 60 years. He was noted for satirizing those in power and for touching on controversial social issues, at a time when it was still taboo in his country to do so. He was the father of Héctor Suárez Gomís, who is also an actor. Early life Suárez was born in Mexico City on 21 October 1938. He started his film career in 1964, when he featured in ''El Asalto''. Career Suárez was notable for creating satire and parody of the wealthy and those in power. This was a challenging thing to do in the 1970s and 1980s, given the authoritarian government in power at the time. He would employ "spontaneous, dark humor" to critique social and political issues, such as poverty, corruption and the erosion of values. This was especially evident in the show he created called ''Qué nos pasa'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Award For Best Supporting Actor
The Ariel Award for Best Supporting Actor (Spanish: Premio Ariel a Mejor Coactuación Masculina) is an award presented by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC) in Mexico. It is given in honor of an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a supporting role while working within the Mexican film industry. In 1947, the 1st and 2nd Ariel Awards were held, with José Baviera and Fernando Soto winning for the films ''La Barraca'' and ''Campeón Sin Corona'', respectively. With the exception of the years 1958 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 (active and honorary), previous winners and individuals with at least two Ariel nominations; the committee submit their votes through the official AMACC website. Since its inception, the award has been given to 48 actors. Ernesto Gómez Cruz has received the most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maritza Olivares
Maritza Olivares is a Mexican actress. She appeared in telenovelas and movies, for example in horror '' El Retorno de Walpurgis''. Olivares’ best known role is the role of Cayetana in ''Entre el amor y el odio''. Olivares studied in London and has worked in Mexico, United States and France. Olivares was nominated for an Ariel Award for Best Actress for her work in her first movie ''Los Meses y los Días'', for which she also won the Heraldo Award. Olivares lost the Ariel to Lucha Villa, her co-star in the film ''National Mechanics''. Olivares has a daughter Valentina Sumavsky Valentina may refer to: Entertainment Film * ''Valentina'' (1950 film), a 1950 Argentine film * ''Valentina'' (2008 film), a 2008 Argentine film Television * ''Valentina'' (1993 telenovela), a 1993 Mexican telenovela * Valentina (2013 telenov ..., also an actress. Filmography References External links *Maritza Olivares {{DEFAULTSORT:Olivares, Maritza Mexican film actresses Mexican ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Cachorros
''Los Cachorros'' (''The Cubs'') is a 1973 Mexican film drama directed by Jorge Fons and written by Fons, Eduardo Lujan, José Emilio Pacheco based upon the novel ''The Cubs and Other Stories'' by Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. Plot It tells the story of a group of friends that stand by each other well into adulthood. The film starts innocently enough when young Cuellar (12-years-old) enters a new school. He immediately makes friends with 4-other youngsters. One day after soccer practice while taking a shower, a vicious dog is let loose and it severely mauls him devouring his genitals. He is as a result maimed for life and this novel uses his development into adolescence and later into adulthood to explore the problems he faces. These are both sexual, obviously, but also his lack of hormones very much changes his relationships with his group of close friends and he finds it very hard to come to terms with the fact that they start to get girlfriends, and later, married. Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Rojo
María Elena Enríquez Ruiz (born August 18, 1944), known as Helena Rojo, is a Mexican actress and model. Biography Born in Mexico City, Mexico, she began her career as a model in the 1961. Toward the end of the decade, she studied drama with renowned Mexican directors Carlos Ancira and José Luis Ibáñez, making her film debut in 1968 in the film ''El club de los suicidas''. That same year, Rojo also appeared in her second film, ''Los amigos''. She continued working as a model and appearing in small film roles in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1969, she signed an exclusivity contract with Productora Cinematográfica Marte. Later, she began expanding her acting career into television and theater. In 1974, her first television role was the lead in the telenovela '' Extraño en su pueblo''. Rojo's cinematic career lad her to work with the most important Mexican film directors of the 1970s and 1980s, such as Felipe Cazals, Arturo Ripstein, Rafael Corkidi, Alberto Bojórque ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucha Villa
Luz Elena Ruiz Bejarano (born November 30, 1936), more commonly known by her stage name Lucha Villa, is a Mexican singer and actress. Early life Born in Camargo, Chihuahua, Luz Elena Ruiz Bejarano was given her pseudonym "Lucha Villa" by television producer Luis G. Dillon ("Lucha" being a hypocorism for Luz Elena, and "Villa" in honor of Pancho Villa). She has been a constant presence in popular music and film since the early 1960s. Villa's early hits included "Media vuelta", by José Alfredo Jiménez, as well as "La cruz del cielo" and "Viva quien sabe querer" In the 1970s, Lucha Villa traveled to Denver, Colorado to perform for a benefit for the Crusade for Justice, youth programs and school. In 1996, Villa, along with Lola Beltrán and Amalia Mendoza, recorded the studio album, ''Disco del Siglo: Las Tres Señoras'', produced by Juan Gabriel, acknowledging their lasting contributions to music fanatics throughout Mexico and Latin America. Acting career She appeared in sev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ariel Award For Best Actress
The Ariel Award for Best Actress (Spanish: Premio Ariel a Mejor Actriz) is an award presented by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC) in Mexico. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the Mexican film industry. In 1947, the 1st and 2nd Ariel Awards were held, with Dolores del Río and María Félix winning for the films ''Las Abandonadas'' 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 (active and honorary), previous winners and individuals with at least two Ariel nominations; the committee members submit their votes through the official AMACC website. Since its inception, the award has been given to 50 actresses. Blanca Guerra is the most awarded performer, with four ac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
