Asia Pacific Screen Awards

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Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Current:
Asia-Pacific region
CountryAustralia
Presented byUNESCO, FIAPF and Brisbane City Council, Australia[1]
First awarded2007
Last awarded2023
Websiteasiapacificscreenawards.com

The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) is an international cultural initiative overseen by the Asia Pacific Screen Academy and headquartered in

Asia Pacific
area to a worldwide audience.

Event history

APSA was established in 2007 and works with

International Federation of Film Producers Associations. An international jury selects the winners, and films are evaluated based on their cinematic quality and how well they reflect their cultural backgrounds. More than 70 nations and regions in the Asia Pacific region are represented by APSA, which introduces their films to new international audiences. It is a sister organisation to the European Film Academy and Premios PLATINO del Cine Iberoamericano
.

Nominees are inducted into the Asia Pacific Screen Academy. Australian screen legend,

AM
, is the President of the Academy.

Members of the International Jury in the past include Tran Anh Hung, Annemarie Jacir, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Garin Nugroho, Diana El Jieroudi, Eric Khoo, Mike Downey, Rubaiyat Hossain, Alexander Rodnyansky, Nia Dinata, Deepak Rauniyar, Jill Bilcock, He Saifei, Adolfo Alix Jr, Asghar Farhadi, Anthony Chen, Hiam Abbass, Lu Yue, Maciej Stuhr, Rajit Kapur, Shyam Benegal, Malini Fonseka, Nansun Shi, David Puttnam, Sergey Dvortsevoy, Salman Aristo, Gina Kim, Samuel Maoz, Kaori Momoi, Tahmineh Milani, Jan Chapman, Sasson Gabai, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Aparna Sen, Bruce Beresford, Huang Jianxin, Shabana Azmi and Jafar Panahi.

Film categories and awards

The following four film categories are available for submission of movies:

The following accomplishments are recognised with awards accordingly:

In addition, exceptional success is recognised with special awards:

  • FIAPF Award for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia Pacific region.
  • Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO
    for the outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film.
  • Young Cinema Award in partnership with NETPAC and Griffith Film School, recognises the abundant emerging talent of the Asia Pacific.

Major award winners

Year Best Feature Film
Best Animated Feature Film
Best Documentary Feature Film
Best Youth Feature Film
Achievement in Directing Best Screenplay Achievement in Cinematography Best Performance by an Actress Best Performance by an Actor
2007
1st
South Korea Secret Sunshine  Japan 5 Centimeters per Second  Lebanon Beirut Diaries: Truth, Lies and Videos  Indonesia Denias, Singing on the Could  
Rakhshan Bani-E'temad
, Mohsen Abdolvahab
for Mainline
India

Feroz Abbas Khan
for Gandhi, My Father

 Iran

Hooman Behmanesh for Those Three

South Korea

Jeon Do-yeon
for Secret Sunshine

Turkey

Erkan Can
for Takva: A Man's Fear of God

2008
2nd
Kazakhstan Tulpan  Israel

 France  Germany Waltz with Bashir

South Korea 63 Years On  Australia The Black Ballon Turkey

Nuri Bilge Ceylan for
Three Monkeys

Israel

Eran Riklis and Suha Arraf for
Lemon Tree

South Korea Lee Mogae for The Good, The Bad, The Weird Israel Hiam Abbass for
Lemon Tree
Iran Reza Naji for
The Song of Sparrows
2009
3rd
Australia Samson & Delilah  Australia Mary and Max  Israel

 Denmark  United States Defamation

 South Korea A Brand New Life China Lu Chuan for
City of Life and Death
Iran Asghar Farhadi for
About Elly
 China Cao Yu for City of Life and Death South Korea Kim Hye-ja
for Mother
Japan Masahiro Motoki for
Departures
2010
4th
China Aftershock  China Piercing I  China

 Canada Last Train Home

 Iran The Other South Korea Lee Chang-dong for
Poetry
Lebanon
India Sudheer Palsane for The Well South Korea Yoon Jeong-hee for
Poetry
China Chen Daoming for
Aftershock
2011
5th
Iran

A Separation

South Korea Leafie, A Hen Into The Wild  Sweden  Japan

 United States I Was Worth 50 Sheep

 Azerbaijan

Buta

Turkey Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Russia

Denis Osokin for
Silent Souls

 Turkey Gökhan Tiryaki for Once Upon A Time in Anatolia Russia Nadezhda Markina for
Elena
China Wang Baoqiang for
Mr. Tree
2012
6th
Turkey Beyond the Hill  Japan A Letter to Momo  Iraq

 United Kingdom  Netherlands In My Mother's Arms

 Indonesia The Mirror Never Lies PhilippinesBrillante Mendoza for
Thy Womb
Turkey Reis Çelik for
Night of Silence
Turkey Touraj Aslani for Rhino Season Philippines Nora Aunor for
Thy Womb
South Korea Choi Min-sik for
Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time
2013
7th
State of Palestine Omar  Russia Ku! Kin-dza-dza  Denmark

 Norway  United Kingdom The Act of Killing

 South Korea Juvenile Offender Singapore Anthony Chen for
Ilo Ilo
India Ritesh Batra for
The Lunchbox
 China

Lu Yue for Back to 1942

China Zhang Ziyi for
The Grandmaster
South Korea Lee Byung-hun for
Masquerade
2014
8th
Russia Leviathan  Japan The Tale of Princess Kaguya  Iraq 1001 Apples  Turkey  Germany Sivas Turkey Nuri Bilge Ceylan for
Winter Sleep
Iran Nima Javidi
Melbourne
 China

 Hong Kong Dong Jinsong for Black Coal, Thin Ice

China Lü Zhong for
Red Amnesia
New Zealand Cliff Curtis for
The Dark Horse
2015
9th
Thailand Cemetery of Splendour  Japan Miss Hokusai  China The Chinese Mayor  China River Russia Aleksei Alekseivich German for
Under Electric Clouds
Turkey Senem Tüzen for
Motherland
 TaiwanMark Lee Ping-bing for The Assassin Japan Kirin Kiki for
Sweet Bean
South Korea Jung Jae-young for
Right Now, Wrong Then
2016
10th
Turkey Cold of Kalandar  South Korea Yeon Sang-ho for Seoul Station  Iran Mehrdad Oskouei for Starless Dreams  South Korea Yoon Ga-eun The World of Us China Feng Xiaogang for
I Am Not Madame Bovary
Japan Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Tadashi Nohara &
Tomoyuki Takahashi for
Happy Hour
 Turkey

 Hungary Cevahir Şahin, Kürşat Üresin for Cold of Kalandar

Hasmine Killip
for
Ordinary People
India Manoj Bajpayee for
Aligarh
2017
11th
Australia Sweet Country  
Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming
 Syria  Denmark  Germany

Last Men in Aleppo

 Indonesia

 Australia  Qatar  Netherlands Kamila Andini for The Seen and Unseen

Russia Andrey Zvyagintsev for
Loveless
Amit Masurkar& Mayank Tewari for
Newton
 Russia Rustam Khamdamov for The Bottomless Bag Georgia (country) Nato Murvanidze for
Scary Mother
India Rajkummar Rao for
Newton
2018

12th

Japan Shoplifters  Russia Leo Gabriadze for Rezo  Australia Paul Damien Williams, Shannon Swan for Gurrumul    Turkey The Pigeon Lebanon Nadine Labaki for Capharnaüm Israel Dan Kleinman and Sameh Zoabi for

Tel Aviv on Fire

 Singapore

 France  Netherlands Hideho Urata for A Land Imagined

China Zhao Tao for Ash Is Purest White India Nawazuddin Siddiqui for Manto
2019

13th

South Korea Parasite  Japan Makoto Shinkai for Weathering with You  Israel

 Switzerland  Canada Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaiche forAdvocate

 Australia

Rodd Rathjen for Buoyancy

Kazakhstan France Adilkhan Yerzhanov for

A Dark, Dark Man

Russia Kantemir Balagov & Aleksandr Terekhov for

Beanpole

 Russia Ksenia SEREDA for

Beanpole

Maxene Eigenmann for Verdict
India Manoj Bajpayee for Bhonsle
2021

14th

Japan Drive My Car  Russia Andrei Khrzhanovsky for The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks  Sweden Hogir Hirori for Sabaya  South Korea Yoon Dan-bi for Moving On Iran France Asghar Farhadi for

A Hero

Japan Ryusuke Hamaguchi& Takamasa Oe for

Drive My Car

 Vietnam

 Singapore  France  Thailand  GermanyNguyễn Vinh Phúc for Taste

Bangladesh Azmeri Haque Badhon for Rehana Maryam Noor Georgia (country) Merab Ninidze for House Arrest
2022

15th

Indonesia Before, Now & Then Armenia Germany Lithuania Aurora's Sunrise India United States United Kingdom All That Breathes Jordan State of Palestine Saudi Arabia Sweden Farha Cambodia France Davy ChouReturn to Seoul Indonesia Makbul Mubarak – Autobiography Germany Niklas Lindschau – The Stranger South Korea Lee Jung-eunHommage as Ji-wan
2023

16th

Japan Germany Perfect Days France Germany Luxembourg BelgiumThe Siren India Against the Tide Kazakhstan Bauryna Salu South Korea United States Celine Song for Past Lives Canada South Korea Anthony Shim for Riceboy Sleeps Kazakhstan Azamat Dulatov for Qas State of Palestine Mouna Hawa for Inshallah a Boy

Other awards

On November 29, 2018, the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards presented the Best Original Score Asia Pacific Screen Award for the first time. The head of the jury for the first-ever award was Ryuichi Sakamoto.[3] This new category is intended to "honour more excellent films and the musicians who contribute so profoundly to the emotions of the movie," according to APSA Chairman Michael Hawkins.[4][5][6][7]

Winners and nominees

2018
Year Nominees English title Original title
2018 Iceland Iceland Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jóhann Jóhannsson Mary Magdalene
Greece Eléni Karaïndrou Bomb, A Love Story Bomb, Yek Asheghaneh
United Kingdom Harry Gregson-Williams Breath
United Arab Emirates United States Omar Fadel Yomeddine
Philippines Ryan Cayabyab
The Portrait

References

  1. ^ About us. Archived 18 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Bochenski, Natalie (28 October 2013). "Turn Brisbane into Busan? There's an APSA for that". Brisbane Times. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  3. ^ Frater, Patrick (3 October 2018). "Ryuichi Sakamoto Heads Jury for New APSA Music Award". Variety. Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  4. ^ "How the Asia Pacific Screen Awards celebrate the region's cultural diversity". Screen Daily (sponsored). Retrieved 31 October 2018.
  5. ^ "Best Original Score Nominees and Jury Announced - Asia Pacific Screen Awards". Asia Pacific Screen Awards. 3 October 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  6. ^ Frater, Patrick (17 October 2018). "'Shoplifters' Leads Asia Pacific Screen Awards Nominations". Variety. Retrieved 24 October 2018.
  7. ^ "APSA Nominees & Winners - Asia Pacific Screen Awards". Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Archived from the original on 27 October 2018. Retrieved 6 November 2018.

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