Cinema of Mexico
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Golden age
Mexican movies from the Golden Era in the 1940s and 1950s are the greatest examples of Latin American cinema, with a huge industry comparable to the Hollywood of those years. Mexican movies were exported and exhibited in all of Latin America and Europe. The film Maria Candelaria (1944) by Emilio Fernández, won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival. Famous actors and actress from this period include María Félix, Pedro Infante, Dolores del Río, Jorge Negrete and comedian Cantinflas.
Contemporary
More recently, movies such as Como agua para chocolate (1992), Cronos (1993), Amores Perros (2000), Y tu mamá también (2001), Pan's Labyrinth (2006) and Babel (2006) have been successful in creating universal stories about contemporary subjects, and were internationally recognised, as in the prestigious Cannes Film Festival. Mexican directors Alejandro González Iñárritu (Amores Perros, Babel), Alfonso Cuarón (''Y tu mamá también), Guillermo del Toro, Carlos Reygadas (Batalla en el cielo), and screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga are some of the most known present-day film makers.
Mexican cinema personalities
Actors
- Mario Moreno "Cantinflas"
- Dolores del Río
- Lupe Vélez
- Lupita Tovar
- Tito Guízar
- Jorge Negrete
- María Félix
- Katy Jurado - First Mexican actress to have an Oscar nomination.
- Pedro Infante
- Evita Muñoz "Chachita"
- Antonio Aguilar
- Diego Luna
- Salma Hayek
- Anthony Quinn
- Gael Garcia Bernal
- Lalo Gonzalez "Piporro"
- Germán Valdés "Tin-Tan"
- Rodolfo Guzmán Huerta "El Santo"
- Mauricio Garcés
- Ricardo Montalban
- Joaquín Pardavé
- Arturo de Córdova
- Ignacio López Tarso
- Fernando Soler
- Claudio Brook
- Pedro Armendáriz
- Silvia Pinal
- Sara García
- Miroslava Stern
- Joaquin Cordero
Directors
- Luis Buñuel
- Eduardo Barraza
- Salvador Carrasco
- Carlos Carrera
- Alfonso Cuarón
- Guillermo del Toro
- Fernando Eimbcke
- Emilio ("El Indio") Fernández
- Alejandro González Iñárritu
- Alejandro Jodorowsky
- Gabriel Retes
- Carlos Reygadas
- Arturo Ripstein
- Ismael Rodriguez
- Lenny Nunez
- Carlos Salces
- Antonio Serrano
- Alejandro Springall
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