Asia Pacific Screen Awards

The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) is an international cultural initiative overseen by the Asia Pacific Screen Academy and headquartered in Australia, sometimes called "Asia-Pacific Oscars". In order to realise UNESCO's goals of promoting and preserving the different cultures through the influential medium of cinema, it honours and promotes the films, actors, directors, and cultures of the Asia Pacific area to a worldwide audience.

Event history

APSA was established in 2007 and works with FIAPF, the 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, Jack Thompson 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 types of film are eligible for submission of movies:

• Feature Film (60+ minutes)
• Animated Film (40+ minutes)
• Youth Film (60+ minutes and made for and/or about young people to the age of 18 years)
• Documentary film (40+ minutes)

since 2024Template:Dated maintenance category (articles) following accomplishments are recognised with the following awards:

• Best Film
• Best Animated Film
• Best Documentary Film
• Best Youth Film
• Best Director
• Best Screenplay
• Best Cinematographer
• Best PerformanceTemplate:Efn
• Best New Performer
• Jury Grand Prize

In addition, exceptional success is recognised with special awards:

• FIAPF Award, for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia Pacific region
• Cultural Diversity Award 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 Film	Best Animated Film	Best Documentary Film	Best Youth Film	Best Director	Best Screenplay	Best Cinematographer	Best Performance by an Actress	Best Performance by an Actor	Best Performance
2007 1st	Template:Flagicon Secret Sunshine	Template:JAP 5 Centimeters per Second	Beirut Diaries: Truth, Lies and Videos	Denias, Singing on the Could	Rakhshan Bani-E'temad, Mohsen Abdolvahab for Mainline	Template:Flagicon Feroz Abbas Khan for Gandhi, My Father	Hooman Behmanesh for Those Three	Template:Flagicon Jeon Do-yeon for Secret Sunshine	Template:Flagicon Erkan Can for Takva: A Man's Fear of God
2008 2nd	Template:Flagicon Tulpan	Waltz with Bashir	Template:Flagicon 63 Years On	The Black Ballon	Template:Flagicon Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Three Monkeys	Template:Flagicon Eran Riklis and Suha Arraf for Lemon Tree	Template:Flagicon Lee Mogae for The Good, The Bad, The Weird	Template:Flagicon Hiam Abbass for Lemon Tree	Template:Flagicon Reza Naji for The Song of Sparrows
2009 3rd	Template:Flagicon Samson & Delilah	Mary and Max	Defamation	A Brand New Life	Template:Flagicon Lu Chuan for City of Life and Death	Template:Flagicon Asghar Farhadi for About Elly	Cao Yu for City of Life and Death	Template:Flagicon Kim Hye-ja for Mother	Template:Flagicon Masahiro Motoki for Departures
2010 4th	Template:Flagicon Aftershock	Piercing I	Last Train Home	The Other	Template:Flagicon Lee Chang-dong for Poetry	Template:Flagicon Samuel Maoz for Lebanon	Template:Flagicon Sudheer Palsane for The Well	Template:Flagicon Yoon Jeong-hee for Poetry	Template:Flagicon Chen Daoming for Aftershock
2011 5th	Template:Flagicon A Separation	Template:Flagicon Leafie, A Hen Into The Wild	Template:JAP I Was Worth 50 Sheep	Buta	Template:Flagicon Nuri Bilge Ceylan Once Upon a Time in Anatolia	Template:Flagicon Denis Osokin for Silent Souls	Gökhan Tiryaki for Once Upon A Time in Anatolia	Template:Flagicon Nadezhda Markina for Elena	Template:Flagicon Wang Baoqiang for Mr. Tree
2012 6th	Template:Flagicon Beyond the Hill	Template:JAP A Letter to Momo	In My Mother's Arms	The Mirror Never Lies	Template:FlagiconBrillante Mendoza for Thy Womb	Template:Flagicon Reis Çelik for Night of Silence	Template:Flagicon Touraj Aslani for Rhino Season	Template:Flagicon Nora Aunor for Thy Womb	Template:Flagicon Choi Min-sik for Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time
2013 7th	Template:Flagicon Omar	Ku! Kin-dza-dza	The Act of Killing	Juvenile Offender	Template:Flagicon Anthony Chen for Ilo Ilo	Template:Flagicon Ritesh Batra for The Lunchbox	Lu Yue for Back to 1942	Template:Flagicon Zhang Ziyi for The Grandmaster	Template:Flagicon Lee Byung-hun for Masquerade
2014 8th	Template:Flagicon Leviathan	Template:JAP The Tale of Princess Kaguya	1001 Apples	Sivas	Template:Flagicon Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Winter Sleep	Template:Flagicon Nima Javidi Melbourne	Dong Jinsong for Black Coal, Thin Ice	Template:Flagicon Lü Zhong for Red Amnesia	Template:Flagicon Cliff Curtis for The Dark Horse
2015 9th	Template:Flagicon Cemetery of Splendour	Template:JAP Miss Hokusai	The Chinese Mayor	River	Template:Flagicon Aleksei Alekseivich German for Under Electric Clouds	Template:Flagicon Senem Tüzen for Motherland	Mark Lee Ping-bing for The Assassin	Template:Flagicon Kirin Kiki for Sweet Bean	Template:Flagicon Jung Jae-young for Right Now, Wrong Then
2016 10th	Template:Flagicon Cold of Kalandar	Yeon Sang-ho for Seoul Station	Mehrdad Oskouei for Starless Dreams	Yoon Ga-eun The World of Us	Template:Flagicon Feng Xiaogang for I Am Not Madame Bovary	Template:Flagicon Ryusuke Hamaguchi Tadashi Nohara & Tomoyuki Takahashi for Happy Hour	Cevahir Şahin, Kürşat Üresin for Cold of Kalandar	Template:Flagicon Hasmine Killip for Ordinary People	Template:Flagicon Manoj Bajpayee for Aligarh
2017 11th	Template:Flagicon Sweet Country	Ann Marie Fleming for Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming	Last Men in Aleppo	Kamila Andini for The Seen and Unseen	Template:Flagicon Andrey Zvyagintsev for Loveless	Template:Flagicon Amit Masurkar& Mayank Tewari for Newton	Rustam Khamdamov for The Bottomless Bag	Template:Flagicon Nato Murvanidze for Scary Mother	Template:Flagicon Rajkummar Rao for Newton
2018 12th	Template:Flagicon Shoplifters	Leo Gabriadze for Rezo	Paul Damien Williams, Shannon Swan for Gurrumul	The Pigeon	Template:Flagicon Nadine Labaki for Capharnaüm	Template:Flagicon Dan Kleinman and Sameh Zoabi for Tel Aviv on Fire	Hideho Urata for A Land Imagined	Template:Flagicon Zhao Tao for Ash Is Purest White	Template:Flagicon Nawazuddin Siddiqui for Manto
2019 13th	Template:Flagicon Parasite	Template:JAP Makoto Shinkai for Weathering with You	Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaiche forAdvocate	Rodd Rathjen for Buoyancy	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Adilkhan Yerzhanov for A Dark, Dark Man	Template:Flagicon Kantemir Balagov & Aleksandr Terekhov for Beanpole	Ksenia SEREDA for Beanpole	Template:Flagicon Maxene Eigenmann for Verdict	Template:Flagicon Manoj Bajpayee for Bhonsle
2021 14th	Template:Flagicon Drive My Car	Andrei Khrzhanovsky for The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks	Hogir Hirori for Sabaya	Yoon Dan-bi for Moving On	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Asghar Farhadi for A Hero	Template:Flagicon Ryusuke Hamaguchi& Takamasa Oe for Drive My Car	Nguyễn Vinh Phúc for Taste	Template:Flagicon Azmeri Haque Badhon for Rehana Maryam Noor	Template:Flagicon Merab Ninidze for House Arrest
2022 15th	Template:Flagicon Before, Now & Then	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Aurora's Sunrise	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon All That Breathes	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Farha	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Davy Chou – Return to Seoul	Template:Flagicon Makbul Mubarak – Autobiography	Template:Flagicon Niklas Lindschau – The Stranger	(category retired)	(category retired)	Template:Flagicon Lee Jung-eun – Hommage as Ji-wan
2023 16th	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Perfect Days	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:FlagiconThe Siren	Template:Flagicon Against the Tide	Template:Flagicon Bauryna Salu	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Celine Song for Past Lives	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Anthony Shim for Riceboy Sleeps	Template:Flagicon Azamat Dulatov for Qas			Template:Flagicon Mouna Hawa for Inshallah a Boy
2024 16th	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon April	Template:Flagicon The Missing	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon No Other Land	Template:Flagicon Boong	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Tato Kotetishvili for Holy Electricity	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Selman Nacar for Hesitation Wound	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Michaël Capron for Mongrel			Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Ia Sukhitashvili for April

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. 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.

Winners and nominees

2018

Year	Nominees	English title	Original title
2018	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jóhann Jóhannsson	Mary Magdalene
	Template:Flagicon Eléni Karaïndrou	Bomb, A Love Story	Bomb, Yek Asheghaneh
	Template:Flagicon Harry Gregson-Williams	Breath
	Template:Flagicon Template:Flagicon Omar Fadel	Yomeddine
	Template:Flagicon Ryan Cayabyab	The Portrait

External links

• Official website
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