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".[ 2] 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:[ 3]
As of 2024[update] [ 3] [ 4]
In addition, exceptional success is recognised with special awards:[ 3]
FIAPF Award , for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia Pacific regionCultural Diversity Award for the outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through filmYoung 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
20071st
South Korea Secret Sunshine File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan 5 Centimeters per Second File:Flag of Lebanon.svg Lebanon Beirut Diaries: Truth, Lies and Videos
File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia Denias, Singing on the Could
File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Rakhshan Bani-E'temad , Mohsen AbdolvahabMainline
India Feroz Abbas Khan Gandhi, My Father
File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran
Hooman Behmanesh for Those Three
South Korea Jeon Do-yeon Secret Sunshine
Turkey Erkan Can for Takva: A Man's Fear of God
20082nd
Kazakhstan Tulpan File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel
File:Flag of France.svg France
File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Waltz with Bashir
South Korea 63 Years On File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg 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
20093rd
Australia Samson & Delilah File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Mary and Max File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel
File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States
Defamation
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea A Brand New Life China Lu Chuan for City of Life and Death Iran Asghar Farhadi for About Elly File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Cao Yu for City of Life and Death South Korea Kim Hye-ja Mother Japan Masahiro Motoki for Departures
20104th
China Aftershock File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China Piercing I File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China
File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Last Train Home
File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran The Other
South Korea Lee Chang-dong for Poetry Israel Samuel Maoz for Lebanon India The Well
South Korea Yoon Jeong-hee for Poetry China Chen Daoming for Aftershock
20115th
Iran A Separation
South Korea Leafie, A Hen Into The Wild File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan
File:Flag of the United States (23px).png United States I Was Worth 50 Sheep
File:Flag of Azerbaijan.svg Azerbaijan
Buta
Turkey Nuri Bilge Ceylan Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Russia Denis Osokin for Silent Souls
File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey Gökhan Tiryaki for Once Upon A Time in Anatolia Russia Nadezhda Markina for Elena China Wang Baoqiang for Mr. Tree
20126th
Turkey Beyond the Hill
File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan A Letter to Momo File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
In My Mother's Arms
File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia The Mirror Never Lies Philippines Brillante Mendoza for Thy Womb Turkey Night of Silence
Turkey Rhino Season Philippines Nora Aunor for Thy Womb South Korea Choi Min-sik for Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time
20137th
State of Palestine Omar File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Ku! Kin-dza-dza File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark
File:Flag of Norway.svg Norway
File:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg United Kingdom
The Act of Killing
File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Juvenile Offender Singapore Anthony Chen for Ilo Ilo India Ritesh Batra for The Lunchbox File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China
Lu Yue for Back to 1942
China Zhang Ziyi for The Grandmaster South Korea Lee Byung-hun for Masquerade
20148th
Russia Leviathan File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan The Tale of Princess Kaguya File:Flag of Iraq.svg Iraq 1001 Apples
File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany Sivas
Turkey Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Winter Sleep Iran Nima Javidi Melbourne
File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China
File:Flag of Hong Kong.svg Hong Kong
Dong Jinsong for
Black Coal, Thin Ice
China Red Amnesia New Zealand Cliff Curtis for The Dark Horse
20159th
Thailand Cemetery of Splendour File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Miss Hokusai File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China The Chinese Mayor File:Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg China River
Russia Aleksei Alekseivich German for Under Electric Clouds Turkey Motherland File:Flag of the Republic of China.svg Taiwan Mark Lee Ping-bing for The Assassin Japan Kirin Kiki for Sweet Bean South Korea Jung Jae-young for Right Now, Wrong Then
201610th
Turkey Cold of Kalandar File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Yeon Sang-ho for Seoul Station File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran Mehrdad Oskouei for Starless Dreams File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Yoon Ga-eun The World of Us China Feng Xiaogang for I Am Not Madame Bovary Japan Happy Hour
File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey
File:Flag of Hungary.svg Hungary Cevahir Şahin , Kürşat Üresin for Cold of Kalandar
Philippines Hasmine Killip for Ordinary People
India Manoj Bajpayee for Aligarh
201711th
Australia Sweet Country File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada Ann Marie Fleming for Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming File:Flag of Syria.svg Syria File:Flag of Denmark.svg Denmark File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany
Last Men in Aleppo
File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
File:Flag of Qatar.svg Qatar
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
Kamila Andini for
The Seen and Unseen
Russia Andrey Zvyagintsev for Loveless India Amit Masurkar & Mayank Tewari for Newton File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Rustam Khamdamov for The Bottomless Bag
Georgia (country) Scary Mother
India Rajkummar Rao for Newton
2018
12th
Japan Shoplifters File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Leo Gabriadze for Rezo File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia Paul Damien Williams, Shannon Swan for Gurrumul File:Flag of Turkey.svg Turkey The Pigeon
Lebanon Nadine Labaki for Capharnaüm Israel Sameh Zoabi for
Tel Aviv on Fire
File:Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore
File:Flag of France.svg France
File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg 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 File:Flag of Japan.svg Japan Makoto Shinkai for Weathering with You File:Flag of Israel.svg Israel
File:Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Switzerland
File:Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Canada
Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaiche forAdvocate
File:Flag of Australia (converted).svg Australia
Rodd Rathjen for Buoyancy
Kazakhstan France A Dark, Dark Man
Russia Kantemir Balagov & Aleksandr Terekhov for
Beanpole
File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Ksenia SEREDA for
Beanpole
Philippines Maxene Eigenmann for Verdict India Manoj Bajpayee for Bhonsle
2021
14th
Japan Drive My Car File:Flag of Russia.svg Russia Andrei Khrzhanovsky for The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks File:Flag of Sweden.svg Sweden Hogir Hirori for Sabaya File:Flag of South Korea.svg South Korea Yoon Dan-bi for Moving On
Iran France Asghar Farhadi A Hero
Japan Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe for
Drive My Car
File:Flag of Vietnam.svg Vietnam
File:Flag of Singapore.svg Singapore
File:Flag of France.svg France
File:Flag of Thailand.svg Thailand
File:Flag of Germany.svg Germany Nguyễn 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 Chou – Return to Seoul Indonesia Autobiography Germany The Stranger
(category retired)
(category retired)
South Korea Lee Jung-eun – Hommage
2023
16th
Japan Germany Perfect Days France Germany Luxembourg Belgium The 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 Qas
State of Palestine 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 .[ 5] [ 6] [ 7] [ 8] [ 9]
Winners and nominees 2018 References External links
Main awards Special awards Ceremonies Winners and nominees
Continental film awards
Africa
Asia
Europe
Ibero-America
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