Asia Pacific Screen Awards Explained
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]
- 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
| Year | | Best Animated Film | Best Documentary Film | Best Youth Film | | Best Screenplay | Best Cinematographer | | Best Performance by an Actor | Best 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 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
|
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 Car | Nguyễn 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 Chou – Return to Seoul | Makbul Mubarak – Autobiography | Niklas Lindschau – The Stranger | (category retired) | (category retired) | Lee Jung-eun – Hommage 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
External links
Notes and References
- http://www.asiapacificscreenawards.com/about_us About us
- News: Turn Brisbane into Busan? There's an APSA for that. Bochenski. Natalie. 2013-10-28. Brisbane Times. 2023-09-24. en.
- 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.
- Web site: APSA Nominees & Winners . Asia Pacific Screen Awards . 14 August 2017 . 15 August 2024.
- News: Ryuichi Sakamoto Heads Jury for New APSA Music Award. Frater. Patrick. 2018-10-03. Variety. 2018-10-31. en-US.
- News: How the Asia Pacific Screen Awards celebrate the region's cultural diversity. Screen Daily (sponsored). 2018-10-31. en.
- News: Best Original Score Nominees and Jury Announced - Asia Pacific Screen Awards. 2018-10-03. Asia Pacific Screen Awards. 2018-10-24. en-US.
- News: 'Shoplifters' Leads Asia Pacific Screen Awards Nominations. Frater. Patrick. 2018-10-17. Variety. 2018-10-24. en-US.
- 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.
