Ariel Award for Best Breakthrough Performance

The Ariel Award for Best Breakthrough Performance (Spanish: Premio Ariel a Mejor Revelación Actoral) is a recent award presented by the Academia Mexicana de Artes y Ciencias Cinematográficas (AMACC) in Mexico. It has been awarded since the 2019 edition, replacing both breakthrough gender-specific categories. It is awarded in honor of the performance of an acting artist in a breakthrough role.

Ariel Award for Best Breakthrough Performance
2024 recipient: Naíma Sentíes
Awarded for	Best performance of an acting artist in a breakthrough role.
Country	Mexico
Presented by	AMACC
First award	2019
Currently held by	José Alberto Patiño, No nos moverán(film)No nos moverán (2025)
Website	premioariel.com.mx

Four actors have been the winners of the statuette, Benny Emmanuel was the first winner for his performance De la Infancia (2018).^[1] The current holder of the award is José Alberto Patiño for We Shall Not Be Moved.^[2][3]

Winners and nominees

Table key

‡	Indicates the winner

Year	Director(s)	Film	Ref.
2019 (61st)	Benny Emmanuel‡	De la Infancia	[4]
	Agustina Quinci	The Chambermaid
	Alan Uribe
	Bernardo Velasco	Museum
	Nancy García	Roma
2020 (62nd)	Juan Daniel García Treviño‡	I'm No Longer Here	[5]
	Azul Giselle Magaña Ruiz	Asfixia
	Coral Puente	I'm No Longer Here
	Johanna Heidi Fregoso	Asfixia
	Eduardo Banda	Huachicolero
2021 (63rd)	Indira Rubie Andrewin‡	Tragic Jungle	[6]
	Ana Laura Rodríguez	Identifying Features
	Juan Jesús Varela
	Leonardo Nahim Nájar Márquez	Los Lobos
	Maximiliano Nájar Márquez
2022 (64th)	Adrián Ross‡	Summer White	[7]
	Alejandra Camacho	Prayers for the Stolen
	Giselle Barrera
	Israel Rodríguez	The Other Tom
	Julia Chávez
2023 (65th)	Emilia Berjón‡	Trigal	[8]
	Eustacio Ascacio	Red Shoes
	Déja Ebergengi	La Caída
	Diego Armando Lara	The Realm of God
	Isabel Luna	Huesera: The Bone Woman
2024 (66th)	Naíma Sentíes	Tótem	[9] [10]
	Danae Ahuja Aparicio	Valentina o la Serenidad
	Rocío de la Mañana	Adolfo
	Saori Gurza	Tótem
	Ikal Paredes	El Último Vagón
	Santiago Sandoval	Heroico
2025 (67th)	José Alberto Patiño	We Shall Not Be Moved	[11]
	Ale Cosío	La arriera
	Andrés Revo	Hombres íntegros
	Jairo Hernández	Sujo
	Miguel Valverde	Fiesta en la madriguera
	Sofía Quezada	Armas blancas

See also

• Academy Juvenile Award
• BAFTA Rising Star Award