Asia Pacific Screen Awards Explained

Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Current Awards:16th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Awarded For:Best in film and documentary in the Asia-Pacific region
Presenter:UNESCO, FIAPF and Brisbane City Council, Australia[1]
Country:Australia
Year:2007
Year2:2023
Previous:14th
Next:16th

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 types of film are eligible for submission of movies:

following accomplishments are recognised with the following awards:[3] [4]

In addition, exceptional success is recognised with special awards:[3]

Major award winners

YearBest Animated FilmBest Documentary FilmBest Youth FilmBest ScreenplayBest CinematographerBest Performance by an ActorBest Performance
2007
1st
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
2008
2nd
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
2009
3rd
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
2010
4th
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
2011
5th
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. Tree
2012
6th
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
2013
7th
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
Masquerade
2014
8th
Leviathan The Tale of Princess Kaguya 1001 Apples Sivas Nuri Bilge Ceylan for
Winter Sleep
Nima Javidi
Melbourne
Dong Jinsong forBlack Coal, Thin Ice Lü Zhong for
Red Amnesia
Cliff Curtis for
The Dark Horse
2015
9th
Cemetery of Splendour Miss Hokusai The Chinese Mayor River Aleksei Alekseivich German for
Under Electric Clouds
Senem Tüzen for
Motherland
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 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
2017
11th
Sweet Country Ann Marie Fleming for Last Men in Aleppo Kamila Andini forThe 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
Newton
201812th Shoplifters Leo Gabriadze for Rezo Paul Damien Williams, Shannon Swan for Gurrumul   The Pigeon Nadine Labaki for Capharnaüm Dan Kleinman and Sameh Zoabi forTel Aviv on Fire Hideho Urata for A Land Imagined Zhao Tao for Ash Is Purest White Nawazuddin Siddiqui for Manto
201913th Parasite Makoto Shinkai for Weathering with You Rachel Leah Jones & Philippe Bellaiche forAdvocate Rodd Rathjen for Buoyancy Adilkhan Yerzhanov forA Dark, Dark Man Kantemir Balagov & Aleksandr Terekhov forBeanpole Ksenia SEREDA forBeanpole Maxene Eigenmann for Verdict Manoj Bajpayee for Bhonsle
202114th 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 forA Hero Ryusuke Hamaguchi& Takamasa Oe forDrive My CarNguyễn Vinh Phúc for Taste Azmeri Haque Badhon for Rehana Maryam Noor Merab Ninidze for House Arrest
202215th Before, Now & Then Aurora's Sunrise All That Breathes Farha Davy ChouReturn to Seoul Makbul Mubarak – Autobiography Niklas Lindschau – The Stranger (category retired)(category retired) Lee Jung-eunHommage as Ji-wan
202316th 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.[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
YearNomineesEnglish titleOriginal title
2018 Hildur Guðnadóttir, Jóhann JóhannssonMary Magdalene
Eléni KaraïndrouBomb, A Love StoryBomb, Yek Asheghaneh
Harry Gregson-WilliamsBreath
Omar FadelYomeddine
Ryan CayabyabThe Portrait

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.asiapacificscreenawards.com/about_us About us
  2. News: Turn Brisbane into Busan? There's an APSA for that. Bochenski. Natalie. 2013-10-28. Brisbane Times. 2023-09-24. en.
  3. Web site: Film Categories and Awards . Asia Pacific Screen Awards . 7 September 2017 . 15 August 2024 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240815065536/https://www.asiapacificscreenawards.com/about/film-submissions/film-categories-awards. 15 August 2024. live.
  4. Web site: APSA Nominees & Winners . Asia Pacific Screen Awards . 14 August 2017 . 15 August 2024.
  5. News: Ryuichi Sakamoto Heads Jury for New APSA Music Award. Frater. Patrick. 2018-10-03. Variety. 2018-10-31. en-US.
  6. News: How the Asia Pacific Screen Awards celebrate the region's cultural diversity. Screen Daily (sponsored). 2018-10-31. en.
  7. News: Best Original Score Nominees and Jury Announced - Asia Pacific Screen Awards. 2018-10-03. Asia Pacific Screen Awards. 2018-10-24. en-US.
  8. News: 'Shoplifters' Leads Asia Pacific Screen Awards Nominations. Frater. Patrick. 2018-10-17. Variety. 2018-10-24. en-US.
  9. News: APSA Nominees & Winners - Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Asia Pacific Screen Awards. 2018-11-06. en-US. https://web.archive.org/web/20181027002236/https://www.asiapacificscreenawards.com/apsa-nominees-winners. 27 October 2018. dead.