This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Find sources: "Cinema of Mexico" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR(May 2019) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Cinema of Mexico
No. of screens
5,303 (2012)[1]
• Per capita
4.6 per 100,000 (2012)[1]
Main distributors
Paramount Int'L 20.3% Warner Bros Int'L 16.2% Fox (Disney) Int'L 14.6%[2]
Produced feature films (2011)[3]
Fictional
51 (69.9%)
Animated
6 (8.2%)
Documentary
16 (21.9%)
Number of admissions (2012)[4]
Total
228,000,000
• Per capita
2.0
National films
10,900,000 (4.79%)
Gross box office (2012)[4]
Total
$779 million
National films
$36 million (4.62%)
Part of a series on the
Culture of Mexico
Society
Mexicans
Folklore
History
Immigration
Languages
Holidays
Religion
Women
Topics
Art
Architecture
Comics
Cuisine
Dance
Literature
Media
Film
Internet
Magazines
Newspapers
Radio
Television
Music
Monuments
Painting
Muralism
Sports
Mesoamerican ballgame
Lucha libre
Football
Rugby
Video gaming
Symbols
Flag
Coat of arms
Anthem
Miss Mexico
World Heritage Sites
Mexico portal
v
t
e
Mexican cinema dates to the late nineteenth century during the rule of President Porfirio Díaz. Seeing a demonstration of short films in 1896, Díaz immediately saw the importance of documenting his presidency in order to present an ideal image of it.[citation needed] With the outbreak of the Mexican Revolution in 1910, Mexican and foreign makers of silent films seized the opportunity to document its leaders and events. From 1915 onward, Mexican cinema focused on narrative film.[5]
During the Golden Age of Mexican cinema from 1936 to 1956, Mexico all but dominated the Latin American film industry.
In 2019, Roma became the first Mexican film and fourth Latin American film to win the Oscar for best foreign language film. Roma also won the BAFTA Award for Best Film at the 72nd British Academy Film Awards.
Emilio "El Indio" Fernández was rumored to be the model for the Academy Award of Merit, more popularly known as the Oscar statuette. According to the legend, in 1928 MGM's art director Cedric Gibbons, one of the original Motion Picture Academy members, was tasked with creating the Academy Award trophy. In need of a model for his statuette, Gibbons was introduced by his future wife, actress Dolores del Río, to Fernández. Reportedly, Fernández had to be persuaded to pose nude for what is today known as the "Oscar".[6][7]
^ ab"Infraestructura de exhibición y festivales" (PDF). Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía. Retrieved 13 November 2013.[permanent dead link]
^"Table 6: Share of Top 3 distributors (Excel)". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
^"Table 1: Feature Film Production – Genre/Method of Shooting". UNESCO Institute for Statistics. Archived from the original on 24 December 2018. Retrieved 5 November 2013.
^ ab"Exhibición y distribución" (PDF). Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía. Retrieved 13 November 2013.[permanent dead link]
^De los Reyes, Aurelio. "Motion Pictures: 1896–1930" in Encyclopedia of Mexico. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn 1997, pp. 957–964
^"6 things you may not know about Oscar statuettes". forevergeek.com. March 2010. Archived from the original on 10 May 2017. Retrieved 15 June 2011.
^Alvarez, Alex (22 February 2013). "Meet the Mexican Model Behind the Oscar Statue". ABC News. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
Mexicancinema dates to the late nineteenth century during the rule of President Porfirio Díaz. Seeing a demonstration of short films in 1896, Díaz immediately...
but the main centers of production have been Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Latin American cinema flourished after the introduction of sound, which added...
Cinemaof North America generally refers collectively to the film industries of the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Unlike in Mexico, The term is cultural...
Mexico's culture emerged from the culture of the Spanish Empire and the preexisting indigenous cultures ofMexico. Mexican culture is described as the...
Part of the cinemaof the United States, the cinemaof New Mexico is today a major industry within the state but the institution of moving picture film...
A list of the most notable films produced in the CinemaofMexico split by decade of release. For an alphabetical list of articles on Mexican films see...
America Cinemaof Latin America Cinemaof Europe Cinemaof Oceania Cinemaof Afghanistan Cinemaof Albania Cinemaof Algeria Cinemaof Argentina Cinemaof Armenia...
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It covers 1,972,550 km2 (761,610 sq mi), making it...
Mexican life within Mexico often dealing with crime, drug trafficking, money and sex. The Mexican narco-cine (Spanish for narco-cinema) or narco-películas...
MexicanCinema is a Mexican film movement started in the early 1990s. Filmmakers, critics, and scholars consider Nuevo Cine Mexicano a "rebirth" of Mexican...
The Jean Cocteau Cinema is a historic movie theater (formerly the Collective Fantasy Cinema) located in Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. It is currently...
vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based...
Mexican actor of telenovelas and the cinemaofMexico. Ayala debuted as an actor at the age of 22 with the film En peligro de muerte ("In danger of death")...
for telenovelas and the CinemaofMexico. He is the father of actresses Ludwika and Dominika Paleta. They relocated to Mexico City in 1980. Ariel Award...
'Monda) is the capital and largest city ofMexico, and the most populous city in North America. Mexico City is one of the most important cultural and financial...
Nájera (born 6 October 1967) is a Mexican actor. Bichir was born in Mexico City. He started his acting career at the age of five in several theater, film...
Renaissance Cinemas Galaxy Cinemas Scene Cinemas VOX Cinemas Silverbird Cinemas – in 2 locations in Accra, Ghana Century Cinemax is the largest cinema operator...
Narcoculture in Mexico is a subculture that has grown as a result of the strong presence of the various drug cartels throughout Mexico. In the same way...
list of the most films produced in the CinemaofMexico ordered by year of release in the 2020s. For an alphabetical list of articles on Mexican films...
is a Mexican actress. She began her career in the theater, venturing into cinema in 1949. She is one ofMexico's greatest female stars, one of the last...