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.
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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.
The following types of film are eligible for submission of movies:[3]
As of 2024[update] following accomplishments are recognised with the following awards:[3][4]
In addition, exceptional success is recognised with special awards:[3]
- 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.
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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 |
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 |
TaiwanMark 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 forAdvocate |
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
GermanyNguyễn 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 |
(category retired) |
(category retired) |
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 |
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Mouna Hawa for Inshallah a Boy |
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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] 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.[6][7][8][9]
Winners and nominees
- 2018
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