Asia Pacific Screen Awards

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

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

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

• Feature Film
• Animated Feature Film
• Youth Feature Film
• Documentary Feature Film

Awards are presented for the following achievements:

• 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
• Best Original Score

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

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

Other awards

Template:Anchor 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. 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".

Winners and nominees

2018

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

External links

• Official website