3rd Asia Pacific Screen Awards explained

The 3rd Asia Pacific Screen Awards were held in 2009.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and in bold.

Best Feature Film

• Samson & Delilah
• The Time that Remains
• About Elly
• City of Life and Death
• Forever Enthralled

Best Youth Feature Film

• A Brand New Life
• The Strength of Water
• Mommo the Bogeyman

Best Animated Feature Film

• Mary and Max
• The Tale of Soldier Fedot, The Daring Fellow
• Summer Wars
• The Sky Crawlers

Best Documentary Feature Film

• Defamation
• Survive, in the heart of the Khmer Rouge madness
• Mental
• Gandhi's Children
• Citizen Juling

Achievement in Cinematography

• Cao Yu (City of Life and Death)
• Alexei Arsentiev (Wolfy)
• Alisher Khamidhodjaev and Maxim Drozdov (Paper Soldier)
• Ali Mohammad Ghasemi (A Light in the Fog)
• Uruphong Raksasad (Agrarian Utopia)

Achievement in Directing

• Lu Chuan (City of Life and Death)
• Sion Sono (Love Exposure)
• Anurag Kashyap (Dev.D)
• Vimukthi Jayasundara (Between Two Worlds)
• Asghar Farhadi (About Elly)

Best Screenplay

• Asghar Farhadi (About Elly)
• Yogesh Vinayak Joshi and Upendra Sidhaye (Mumbai My Life)
• Bong Joon-ho and Park Eun-kyo (Mother)
• Baek Seung-Bin (Members of the Funeral)
• Kundo Koyama (Departures)

Best Performance by an Actress

• Kim Hye-ja (Mother)
• Zhou Xun (The Equation of Love and Death)
• Yana Troyanova (Wolfy)
• Malani Fonseka (Flowers of the Sky)
• Golshifteh Farahani (About Elly)

Best Performance by an Actor

• Masahiro Motoki (Departures)
• Ge You (If You Are the One)
• Naseeruddin Shah (A Wednesday!)
• Mohamed Bakri (Laila's Birthday)
• Yang Ik-june (Breathless)

FIAPF Award

• Isao Matsuoka

UNESCO Award

• Uruphong Raksasad (Agrarian Utopia)

Jury Grand Prize

• The Time That Remains
• About Elly

Notes and References

1. Web site: Asia Pacific Screen Awards Nominees & Winners Archive 2009. December 16, 2014. www.asiapacificscreenacademy.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20141216215821/http://www.asiapacificscreenacademy.com/apsa-archive/apsa-nominees-winners/nominees-winners-archive/?nomyear=60&nomcat=17&winner=17&country=17&Submit=Submit#.VJB9qHv5xOY. December 16, 2014. dead.