18th Ariel Awards

The 18th Ariel Awards ceremony, organized by the Mexican Academy of Film Arts and Sciences took place on April 22, 1976, in Mexico City. During the ceremony, AMACC presented the Ariel Award in 13 categories honoring films released in 1975. Actas de Marusia was the most nominated film with twelve nominations that resulted in nine wins, including Best Picture and Best Director. Actas de Marusia was selected to represent Mexico at the 48th Academy Awards and received a nomination, which it lost to Dersu Uzala from the Soviet Union.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface.

Actas de Marusia – CONACINE * Canoa – STPC * De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas – Centro Universitario de Estudios Cinematográficos	Miguel Littín – Actas de Marusia * Felipe Cazals – Canoa * Marcela Fernández Violante – De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas
Jorge Russek – De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas * Juan Ferrara – De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas * Enrique Lucero – Canoa as The Priest	Rocío Brambila – De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas * Patricia Aspillaga – De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas * Diana Bracho – Actas de Marusia as Luisa
Ernesto Gómez Cruz – Actas de Marusia as Crisculo "Medio Juan"Eduardo Lómez Rojas – Actas de Marusia as Domingo SotoClaudio Obregón – Actas de Marusia as Captain Troncoso	Patricia Reyes Spíndola – Actas de Marusia as Rosa * Graciela Doring – Coronación as Lourdes * Silvia Mariscal – Actas de Marusia as Margarita
Actas de Marusia – Miguel Littín * Canoa – Tomás Pérez Turrent * De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas – Marcela Fernández Violante, Adrián Palomeque, and Mitl Valdez Salazar	Canoa – Tomás Pérez Turrent * De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas – Marcela Fernández Violante, Adrián Palomeque, and Mitl Valdez Salazar * El Hombre del Puente – Julio Alejandro
Más Negro Que la Noche – Raúl Lavista * De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas – Milly Bermejo * El Hombre del Puente – Gustavo César Carrión	Actas de Marusia – Jorge Stahl, Jr. * Canoa – Alex Phillips, Jr. * Coronación – Gabriel Figueroa
Actas de Marusia – Alberto Valenzuela and Ramón Aupart * De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas – Marcelino Aupart * Supervivientes de los Antes – Alfredo Rosas Priego	Coronación – Julio Alejandro * Actas de Marusia – Raúl Serrano * De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas – Marcela Fernández Violante
Tiempo de Correr – Arturo Ripstein * IV Maratón Náutico del Río Balsas – Demetrio Bilbatúa Rodríguez * Todos Son Mexicanos – Alberto Bojórquez and Óscar Menéndez	-

Multiple nominations and awards

The following five films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Film
12	Actas de Marusia
10	De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas
6	Canoa
3	Coronación
2	El Hombre del Puente

Films that received multiple awards:

Awards	Film
9	Actas de Marusia
2	De Todos Modos Juan Te Llamas