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". 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 types of film are eligible for submission of movies: Feature Film (60+ minutes) Animated Film (40+ minutes) Youth Film (60+ minutes and made for and/or about young people to the age of 18 years) Documentary film (40+ minutes)
following accomplishments are recognised with the following awards: Best Film Best Animated Film Best Documentary Film Best Youth Film Best Director Best Screenplay Best Cinematographer Best Performance Best New Performer Jury Grand Prize
In addition, exceptional success is recognised with special awards: 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.
Major award winners YearBest Film Best Animated FilmBest Documentary FilmBest Youth FilmBest Director Best ScreenplayBest CinematographerBest Performance by an Actress Best Performance by an ActorBest Performance20071st Secret Sunshine 5 Centimeters per Second Beirut Diaries: Truth, Lies and Videos Denias, Singing on the Could Rakhshan Bani-E'temad, Mohsen Abdolvahab for Mainline Feroz Abbas Khan for Gandhi, My Father Hooman Behmanesh for Those Three Jeon Do-yeon for Secret Sunshine Erkan Can for Takva: A Man's Fear of God20082nd Tulpan
Waltz with Bashir 63 Years On 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 20093rd Samson & Delilah Mary and Max Defamation A Brand New Life Lu Chuan for City of Life and Death Asghar Farhadi for About Elly Cao Yu for City of Life and Death Kim Hye-ja for Mother Masahiro Motoki for Departures 20104th Aftershock Piercing I Last Train Home 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 20115th A Separation Leafie, A Hen Into The Wild I Was Worth 50 Sheep Buta Nuri Bilge Ceylan Once Upon a Time in Anatolia Denis Osokin for Silent Souls Gökhan Tiryaki for Once Upon A Time in Anatolia Nadezhda Markina for Elena Wang Baoqiang for Mr. Tree20126th Beyond the Hill A Letter to Momo
In My Mother's Arms The Mirror Never LiesBrillante 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 Time20137th Omar Ku! Kin-dza-dza
The Act of Killing Juvenile Offender Anthony Chen for Ilo Ilo Ritesh Batra for The Lunchbox Lu Yue for Back to 1942 Zhang Ziyi for The Grandmaster Lee Byung-hun for Masquerade20148th Leviathan The Tale of Princess Kaguya 1001 Apples Sivas Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Winter Sleep Nima Javidi Melbourne
Dong Jinsong for Black Coal, Thin Ice Lü Zhong for Red Amnesia Cliff Curtis for The Dark Horse20159th Cemetery of Splendour Miss Hokusai The Chinese Mayor River Aleksei Alekseivich German for Under Electric Clouds Senem Tüzen for MotherlandMark Lee Ping-bing for The Assassin Kirin Kiki for Sweet Bean Jung Jae-young for Right Now, Wrong Then201610th Cold of Kalandar Yeon Sang-ho for Seoul Station Mehrdad Oskouei for Starless Dreams Yoon Ga-eun The World of Us Feng Xiaogang for I Am Not Madame Bovary Ryusuke Hamaguchi Tadashi Nohara & Tomoyuki Takahashi for Happy Hour Cevahir Şahin, Kürşat Üresin for Cold of Kalandar Hasmine Killip for Ordinary People Manoj Bajpayee for Aligarh 201711th Sweet Country Ann Marie Fleming for Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming Last Men in Aleppo
Kamila Andini for The Seen and Unseen Andrey Zvyagintsev for Loveless Amit Masurkar& Mayank Tewari for Newton Rustam Khamdamov for The Bottomless Bag Nato Murvanidze for Scary Mother Rajkummar Rao for Newton2018 12th Shoplifters Leo Gabriadze for Rezo Paul Damien Williams, Shannon Swan for Gurrumul The Pigeon Nadine Labaki for Capharnaüm Dan Kleinman and Sameh Zoabi for Tel Aviv on Fire
Hideho Urata for A Land Imagined Zhao Tao for Ash Is Purest White Nawazuddin Siddiqui for Manto2019 13th Parasite Makoto Shinkai for Weathering with You
Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaiche forAdvocate Rodd Rathjen for Buoyancy Adilkhan Yerzhanov for A Dark, Dark Man Kantemir Balagov & Aleksandr Terekhov for Beanpole Ksenia SEREDA for Beanpole Maxene Eigenmann for Verdict Manoj Bajpayee for Bhonsle2021 14th Drive My Car Andrei Khrzhanovsky for The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks Hogir Hirori for Sabaya Yoon Dan-bi for Moving On Asghar Farhadi for A Hero Ryusuke Hamaguchi& Takamasa Oe for Drive My CarNguyễn 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 Mouna Hawa for Inshallah a Boy2024 17th April The Missing No Other Land Boong Tato Kotetishvili for Holy Electricity Selman Nacar for Hesitation Wound Michaël Capron for Mongrel Ia Sukhitashvili for April2025 18th It Was Just an Accident The Square Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk Amoeba Jafar Panahi Chie Hayakawa
Other awards On 29 November 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. 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.
Winners and nominees 2018 YearNomineesEnglish titleOriginal title2018 Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jóhann JóhannssonMary Magdalene Eléni KaraïndrouBomb, A Love StoryBomb, Yek Asheghaneh Harry Gregson-WilliamsBreath Omar FadelYomeddine Ryan CayabyabThe Portrait
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External links Official website