Overview

• Sujo, by Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez, took Best Picture and Best Direction, with Yadira Pérez Esteban winning best supporting actress.
• Pedro Páramo, Rodrigo Prieto’s adaptation, led the early categories and finished with seven Arieles, including cinematography, production design, costume, makeup, visual effects and special effects, plus best supporting actor for Héctor Kotsifakis.
• Raúl Briones won Best Actor for La cocina and Luisa Huertas won Best Actress for No nos moverán, while José Alberto Patiño earned Revelation Actor; No nos moverán won Original Screenplay and Debut Feature, and La cocina won Adapted Screenplay, Editing, Sound and Original Music.
• The ceremony featured overt political statements, including a minute of silence for Gaza victims, a kufiya held aloft by editor Yibrán Asuad, and a speech by Briones condemning ICE and President Donald Trump, alongside calls to remember Mexico’s disappeared.
• The AMACC awarded Ariel de Oro honors to Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Jacqueline Andere and the STPC, Guillermo del Toro sent a recorded message for an international merit recognition, and viewers criticized curtailed speeches and limited broadcast access.