Pablo Berger‘s Blancanieves continues to pick up hardware around the world…
The 50-year-old Spanish director’s black-and-white silent fantasy drama won the prize for Best Ibero-American Picture at the 55th Ariel Awards ceremony.
Based on the fairy tale Snow White by the Brothers Grimm, Blancanieves was the big winner at this year’s Goya Awards in Spain. The film, which is set in a romantic vision of 1920s Andalusia, also won the Cine Latino Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.
Meanwhile, Paula Markovitch‘s El Premio, a drama set during Argentina’s dirty war, won Mexico’s top film award for best picture, first work, original screenplay and editing.
Winner of two Silver Bear awards in Berlin, the production has fared well on the festival circuit, although it’s struggled at the Mexican box office.
The film academy gave best director to Rodrigo Pla for his Uruguay-set drama La Demora, which also walked away with an Ariel for adapted screenplay.
Here’s a complete look at this year’s Ariel Award winners:
BEST PICTURE
El Premio
DIRECTOR
La Demora (Rodrigo Pla)
ACTOR
El Fantastico Mundo de Juan Orol (Roberto Sosa)
ACTRESS
El Sueno de Lu (Ursula Pruneda)
SUPPORTING ACTOR
Colosio, El Asesinato (Daniel Gimenez Cacho)
SUPPORTING ACTRESS
La Vida Precoz y Breve de Sabina Rivas (Angelina Pelaez)
FIRST WORK
El Premio
IBERO-AMERICAN PICTURE
Blancanieves (Spain)
DOCUMENTARY
Cuates de Australia
ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
El Premio
ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
La Demora
EDITING
El Premio
CINEMATOGRAPHY
El Fantastico Mundo de Juan Oral
SPECIAL EFFECTS
La Vida Precoz y Breve de Sabina Rivas
VISUAL EFFECTS
Depositarios
SOUND
Cuates de Australia
ORIGINAL SCORE
Carriere 250 Metros
MAKEUP
Colosio, El Asesinato
COSTUME DESIGN
El Fantastico Mundo de Juan Orol
ART DESIGN
La Vida Precoz y Breve de Sabina Rivas
ANIMATED SHORT
La Noria
FICTION SHORT
La Tirica o Como Curar la Tristeza
DOCUMENTARY SHORT
La Herida Se Mantiene Abierta