Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas

The Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences (Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas, AMACC) is a professional honorary organization founded on July 3, 1946, in Mexico City to promote the dissemination, research, preservation, development, and defense of the cinematographic arts and sciences. Currently, the president of the AMACC is producer Mónica Lozano Serrano.

The AMACC is committed to making Mexican cinema known and valued in Mexico and abroad. It organizes meetings between filmmakers, annually rewards the films exhibited during each year, in addition to publishing books that talk about the development of the Mexican film industry, and participates in the conservation of cinematographic works in Mexico. At the same time, it defends the creative and labor freedom of Mexican filmmakers from censorship and labor grievances.

The AMACC is endorsed by the cinematographic trajectory of its members and by their willingness to selflessly defend the present and the future of Mexican cinema.

History
The following people were present before a notary public during the signing of the document:


 * Celestino Gorostiza, screenwriter and director
 * Felipe Gregorio Castillo, cinematographer
 * Raúl de Anda, producer
 * Carlos Carriedo Galván, lawyer
 * César Santos Galindo, lawyer
 * Fernando Soler, actor
 * Manuel Fontanals, scenographer
 * Ignacio Fernández Esperón “Tata Nacho”, composer
 * Eduardo Hernández Moncada, pianist and composer
 * Oswaldo Diaz Rúanova, journalist
 * Fernando Morales Ortiz, journalist
 * Eugenio Maldonado, lawyer


 * José María Sánchez García, journalist
 * Antonio Castro Leal, lawyer
 * Adela Formoso de Obregón Santacilia film instructor
 * Carlos Pellicer, screenwriter
 * Alejandro Galindo, director and screenwriter
 * Juán Manuel Torrea
 * Jorge Fernández, scenographer
 * Francisco de P. Cabrera, producer
 * Ángel Garasa Bergés, actor
 * Adolfo Fernández Bustamante, director
 * Gabriel Figueroa cinematographer, among others.

This was a moment where the movie industry in Mexico was going through its peak. The year before, alone, 85 movies had been made, a record figure even today. The purpose of creating the Academy was to promote advancements in the arts and sciences of film-making, as well as to give public recognition and to outstanding film productions and promote future research.

In practice, however, most of the efforts of the Academy went on to recognize the best films with its award: the Ariel. Every year, from 1947 to 1958, the Ariel was awarded. After 1958 the number of productions fell considerably and it was not until 1972 when the ceremony was held again, and it has every year until the present year.

Members
Active members
 * 1) Mónica Lozano Serrano
 * 2) Marina Stavenhagen Vargas
 * 3) Flavio González Mello
 * 4) Rodrigo Herranz Fanjul
 * 5) Ernesto Contreras Flores
 * 6) Everardo González
 * 7) Lucía Gajá Ferrer
 * 8) Nerio Barberis Occhione
 * 9) Guadalupe Ferrer Andrade
 * 10) Jorge Michel Grau
 * 11) Leticia Huijara
 * 12) Adela Cortázar
 * 13) Alberto Cortés
 * 14) Alejandro García
 * 15) Arcelia Ramírez
 * 16) Armando Casas Pérez
 * 17) Axel Muñoz
 * 18) Bárbara Enríquez
 * 19) Daniel Hidalgo
 * 20) Francisco Vargas
 * 21) Francisco X. Rivera
 * 22) Gloria Carrasco
 * 23) Guillermo Granillo
 * 24) Ignacio Ortiz
 * 25) Inna Payán
 * 26) Isabel Muñoz Cota
 * 27) Jorge Zárate
 * 28) José Sefami
 * 29) Juan Carlos Colombo
 * 30) Juan José Saravia
 * 31) Karina Gidi
 * 32) Kenya Márquez Alkadif Cortés
 * 33) Laura Imperiale
 * 34) Mariana Rodríguez
 * 35) Mariestela Fernández
 * 36) Miguel Hernández
 * 37) Nicolás Echevarría
 * 38) Omar Guzmán
 * 39) Roberto Fiesco
 * 40) Samuel Larson
 * 41) Serguei Saldívar Tanaka
 * 42) Sofía Carrillo
 * 43) Tatiana Huezo
 * 44) Verónica Langer
 * 45) Víctor Ugalde

Emeritus Members
 * 1) Bertha Navarro
 * 2) Blanca Guerra
 * 3) Carlos Carrera
 * 4) Diana Bracho
 * 5) Dolores Heredia
 * 6) Ernesto Gómez Cruz
 * 7) Felipe Cazals
 * 8) Jorge Fons
 * 9) Jorge Sánchez Sosa
 * 10) Juan Antonio de la Riva
 * 11) Lucía Álvarez
 * 12) Toni Kuhn

Honorary Members
 * 1) Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica, represented by Alfredo Loaeza
 * 2) Cineteca Nacional, represented by Alejandro Pelayo
 * 3) Dirección General de Actividades Cinematográficas – Filmoteca de la UNAM, represented by Hugo Villa Smythe
 * 4) Escuela Nacional de Artes Cinematográficas (UNAM), represented by Manuel López Monroy
 * 5) Fernando Pérez Gavilán