Australian film and culture award ceremony
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] 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 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:
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
Secret Sunshine
Japan
5 Centimeters per Second
Lebanon Beirut Diaries: Truth, Lies and Videos
Indonesia Denias, Singing on the Could
Iran
Rakhshan Bani-E'temad , Mohsen Abdolvahab for Mainline
Feroz Abbas Khan for
Gandhi, My Father
Iran
Hooman Behmanesh for Those Three
Jeon Do-yeon for
Secret Sunshine
Erkan Can for
Takva: A Man's Fear of God
2008
2nd
Tulpan
Israel
France
Germany
Waltz with Bashir
63 Years On
Australia
The Black Ballon
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for
Three Monkeys
Eran Riklis and Suha Arraf for
Lemon Tree
Lee Mogae for
The Good, The Bad, The Weird
Hiam Abbass for
Lemon Tree
Reza Naji for
The Song of Sparrows
2009
3rd
Samson & Delilah
Australia
Mary and Max
Israel
Denmark
United States
Defamation
South Korea
A Brand New Life
Lu Chuan for
City of Life and Death
Asghar Farhadi for
About Elly
China
Cao Yu for
City of Life and Death
Kim Hye-ja for
Mother
Masahiro Motoki for
Departures
2010
4th
Aftershock
China
Piercing I
China
Canada
Last Train Home
Iran The Other
Lee Chang-dong for
Poetry
Samuel Maoz for
Lebanon
Sudheer Palsane for The Well
Yoon Jeong-hee for
Poetry
Chen Daoming for
Aftershock
2011
5th
A Separation
Leafie, A Hen Into The Wild
Sweden
Japan
United States I Was Worth 50 Sheep
Azerbaijan
Buta
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Once Upon a Time in Anatolia
Denis Osokin for
Silent Souls
Turkey
Gökhan Tiryaki for
Once Upon A Time in Anatolia
Nadezhda Markina for
Elena
Wang Baoqiang for Mr. Tree
2012
6th
Beyond the Hill
Japan
A Letter to Momo
Iraq
United Kingdom
Netherlands
In My Mother's Arms
Indonesia
The Mirror Never Lies
Brillante Mendoza for
Thy Womb
Reis Çelik for Night of Silence
Touraj Aslani for
Rhino Season
Nora Aunor for
Thy Womb
Choi Min-sik for
Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time
2013
7th
Omar
Russia
Ku! Kin-dza-dza
Denmark
Norway
United Kingdom
The Act of Killing
South Korea
Juvenile Offender
Anthony Chen for
Ilo Ilo
Ritesh Batra for
The Lunchbox
China
Lu Yue for
Back to 1942
Zhang Ziyi for
The Grandmaster
Lee Byung-hun for
Masquerade
2014
8th
Leviathan
Japan
The Tale of Princess Kaguya
Iraq 1001 Apples
Turkey
Germany Sivas
Nuri Bilge Ceylan for
Winter Sleep
Nima Javidi Melbourne
China
Hong Kong
Dong Jinsong for
Black Coal, Thin Ice
Lü Zhong for
Red Amnesia
Cliff Curtis for
The Dark Horse
2015
9th
Cemetery of Splendour
Japan
Miss Hokusai
China
The Chinese Mayor
China River
Aleksei Alekseivich German for
Under Electric Clouds
Senem Tüzen for
Motherland
Taiwan Mark Lee Ping-bing for
The Assassin
Kirin Kiki for
Sweet Bean
Jung Jae-young for
Right Now, Wrong Then
2016
10th
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
Feng Xiaogang for
I Am Not Madame Bovary
Ryusuke Hamaguchi Tadashi Nohara & Tomoyuki Takahashi for Happy Hour
Turkey
Hungary
Cevahir Şahin , Kürşat Üresin for
Cold of Kalandar
Hasmine Killip for Ordinary People
Manoj Bajpayee for
Aligarh
2017
11th
Sweet Country
Canada
Ann Marie Fleming for
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
Andrey Zvyagintsev for
Loveless
Amit Masurkar & Mayank Tewari for
Newton
Russia
Rustam Khamdamov for
The Bottomless Bag
Nato Murvanidze for
Scary Mother
Rajkummar Rao for
Newton
2018
12th
Shoplifters
Russia
Leo Gabriadze for
Rezo
Australia Paul Damien Williams, Shannon Swan for
Gurrumul
Turkey The Pigeon
Nadine Labaki for
Capharnaüm
Dan Kleinman and
Sameh Zoabi for
Tel Aviv on Fire
Singapore
France
Netherlands
Hideho Urata for
A Land Imagined
Zhao Tao for
Ash Is Purest White
Nawazuddin Siddiqui for
Manto
2019
13th
Parasite
Japan
Makoto Shinkai for
Weathering with You
Israel
Switzerland
Canada
Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaiche for
Advocate
Australia
Rodd Rathjen for
Buoyancy
Adilkhan Yerzhanov for
A Dark, Dark Man
Kantemir Balagov & Aleksandr Terekhov for
Beanpole
Russia Ksenia SEREDA for
Beanpole
Maxene Eigenmann for
Verdict
Manoj Bajpayee for
Bhonsle
2021
14th
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
Asghar Farhadi for
A Hero
Ryusuke Hamaguchi & Takamasa Oe for
Drive My Car
Vietnam
Singapore
France
Thailand
Germany
Nguyễn Vinh Phúc for
Taste
Azmeri Haque Badhon for
Rehana Maryam Noor
Merab Ninidze for
House Arrest
2022
15th
Before, Now & Then
Aurora's Sunrise
All That Breathes
Farha
Davy Chou –
Return to Seoul
Makbul Mubarak –
Autobiography
Niklas Lindschau – The Stranger
Lee Jung-eun –
Hommage as Ji-wan
2023
16th
Perfect Days
The Siren
Against the Tide
Bauryna Salu
Celine Song for
Past Lives
Anthony Shim for
Riceboy Sleeps
Azamat Dulatov for Qas
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.
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Winners and nominees
2018
References
External links
Main awards Special awards Ceremonies Winners and nominees by country
Continental film awards
Africa
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Europe
Ibero-America
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