Asia Pacific Screen Awards

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The Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) is an international cultural initiative of the Brisbane City Council, Australia, to honour and promote the films, actors, directors, and cultures of the Asia-Pacific region to a global audience and to realise the objectives of UNESCO to promote and preserve the respective cultures through the influential medium of film.

Event history[edit]

Staged for the first time in 2007, APSA collaborates with UNESCO and FIAPF-International Federation of Film Producers Associations. Winners are determined by an international jury and films are judged on cinematic excellence and the way in which they attest to their cultural origins. APSA takes the works of filmmakers across more than 70 countries and areas in the Asia-Pacific region to new international audiences.

Nominees are automatically inducted into the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, a body of Asia-Pacific filmmakers. Australian screen legend, Jack Thompson AM, is the President of the Academy.

The 11th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards was held in Brisbane, Australia on 23 November 2017. The International Jury that determined the winners was led by award-winning Australian film editor Jill Bilcock alongside Yoshi Yatabe, He Saifei, Adolfo Alix Jr and Adilkhan Yerzhanov. Past International Jury members include: Asghar Farhadi, Anthony Chen, Hiam Abbass, Lu Yue, Maciej Stuhr, Rajit Kapur, Shyam Benegal, Malini Fonseka, Nansun Shi, Lord 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[edit]

Films can be submitted in one or all of four film categories:

Awards are presented for the following achievements:

In addition, three special awards are presented for outstanding achievement:

The FIAPF Award: The International Federation of Film Producers Associations (FIAPF) determines the winner of the award for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia Pacific region.
Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO: The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Award is for the outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film.
The Jury Grand Prize: The Jury of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards can, at its discretion, present a further award.

The annual APSA Young Cinema Award, presented by NETPAC (Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema) and the Griffith Film School (GFS), recognises the abundant emerging talent of the Asia Pacific.

Major award winners[edit]

Year	Best Feature Film	Achievement in Directing	Best Performance by an Actor	Best Performance by an Actress	Best Screenplay
2007 1st	Secret Sunshine	Rakhshan Bani-E'temad, Mohsen Abdolvahab Mainline	Mehrdad Seddiqian The Night Bus	Jeon Do-yeon Secret Sunshine	Feroz Abbas Khan Gandhi, My Father
2008 2nd	Tulpan	Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Three Monkeys	Reza Naji The Song of Sparrows	Hiam Abbass Lemon Tree	Eran Riklis and Suha Arraf Lemon Tree
2009 3rd	Samson & Delilah	Lu Chuan City of Life and Death	Masahiro Motoki Departures	Kim Hye-ja Mother	Asghar Farhadi About Elly
2010 4th	Aftershock	Lee Chang-dong Poetry	Chen Daoming Aftershock	Yoon Jeong-hee Poetry	Samuel Maoz Lebanon
2011 5th	A Separation	Nuri Bilge Ceylan Once Upon a Time in Anatolia	' Wang Baoqiang Mr. Tree	Nadezhda Markina Elena	Denis Osokin Silent Souls
2012 6th	Beyond the Hill	Brillante Mendoza Thy Womb	Choi Min-sik Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time	Nora Aunor Thy Womb	Reis Çelik Night of Silence
2013 7th	Omar	Anthony Chen Ilo Ilo	Lee Byung-hun Masquerade	Zhang Ziyi The Grandmaster	Ritesh Batra The Lunchbox
2014 8th	Leviathan	Nuri Bilge Ceylan Winter Sleep	Cliff Curtis The Dark Horse	Lü Zhong Red Amnesia	Nima Javidi Melbourne
2015 9th	Cemetery of Splendour	Aleksei Alekseivich German Under Electric Clouds	Jung Jae-young Right Now, Wrong Then	Kirin Kiki Sweet Bean	Senem Tüzen Motherland
2016 10th	Cold of Kalandar	Feng Xiaogang I Am Not Madame Bovary	Manoj Bajpayee Aligarh	Hasmine Killip Ordinary People	Ryusuke Hamaguchi Tadashi Nohara & Tomoyuki Takahashi Happy Hour
2017 11th	Sweet Country	Andrey Zvyagintsev Loveless	Rajkummar Rao Newton	Nato Murvanidze Scary Mother	Amit Masurkar Mayank Tewari Newton
2018 12th	Shoplifters	Nadine Labaki Capharnaüm	Nawazuddin Siddiqui Manto	Zhao Tao Ash Is Purest White	Dan Kleinman and Sameh Zoabi Tel Aviv on Fire
2019 13th	Parasite	Adilkhan Yerzhanov A Dark, Dark Man	Manoj Bajpayee Bhonsle	Maxene Eigenmann Verdict	Kantemir Balagov, Aleksandr Terekhov Beanpole

Other awards[edit]

The Asia Pacific Screen Award for Best Original Score was awarded for the first time during the 12th Asia Pacific Screen Awards on 29 November 2018. The jury for the inaugural award was helmed by Ryuichi Sakamoto.^[1] According to APSA Chairman Michael Hawkins, this new category is designed to "honour more great films and the musicians who contribute so strongly to the emotions of the films".^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Winners and nominees[edit]

2018

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