2009 (3rd) Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Profile

• Event: Asia Pacific Screen Awards
• Edition: 3rd
• Presented By: Queensland State Government, Australia / CNN International
• Date: November 26th, 2009
• Location: Queensland, Australia

Nominees and Winners

Best Feature Film

• Award Winner: "Samson & Delilah"
• Nominees:
• "About Elly" - Asghar Farhadi (Iran)
• "City of Life and Death" - Chuan Lu (China)
• "Forever Enthralled" - Kaige Chen (China)
• "Samson & Delilah" - Warwick Thornton (Australia)
• "The Time That Remains" - Elia Suleiman (Palestine/UK/Italy/Belgium/France)

Best Children's Feature Film

• Award Winner: "A Brand New Life"
• High Commendation: "Tahaan: A Boy with a Grenade"
• Nominees:
• "The Bogeyman" - Atalay Tasdiken (Turkey)
• "A Brand New Life" - Ounie Lecomte (South Korea)
• "Pesantren - 3 Wishes, 3 Loves" - Nurman Hakim (Indonesia)
• "The Strength of Water" - Armagan Ballantyne (New Zealand/Germany)
• "Tahaan: A Boy with a Grenade" - Santosh Sivan (Indonesia)

Best Animated Feature Film

• Award Winner: "Mary and Max"
• Nominees:
• "First Squad: The Moment of Truth" - Yoshiharu Ashino (Japan/Russia)
• "Mary and Max" - Adam Elliot (Australia)
• "The Sky Crawlers" - Mamoru Oshii (Japan)
• "Summer Wars" - Mamoru Hosoda (Japan)
• "The Tale of Soldier Fedot, The Daring Fellow" - Alexander Boyarsky (Russia)

Best Documentary Feature Film

• Award Winner: "Defamation"
• High Commendation: "Gandhi's Children"
• Nominees:
• "Citizen Juling" - various (Thailand)
• "Defamation" - Yoav Shamir (Israel)
• "Gandhi's Children" - David MacDougall (Australia)
• "Mental" - Kazuhiro Soda (Japan)
• "Survive, In the Heart of the Khmer Rouge Madness" - Gerard Lacroix (Cambodia/France)

Best Screenplay

• Award Winner: Asghar Farhadi ("About Elly")
• Nominees:
• Asghar Farhadi - "About Elly" (Iran)
• Kundo Koyama - "Departures" (Japan)
• Seung-bin Baek - "Members of the Funeral" (South Korea)
• Joon-ho Bong/Eun-kyo Park - "Mother" (South Korea)
• Nishikant Kamat - "Mumbai My Life" (India)

Achievement in Cinematography

• Award Winner: Yu Cao ("City of Life and Death")
• High Commendation: Alisher Khamidhodjaev & Maxim Drozdov ("Paper Soldier")
• Nominees:
• Uruphong Raksasad - "Agrarian Utopia" (Thailand)
• Yu Cao - "City of Life and Death" (China)
• Ali Mohammad Ghasemi - "A Light in the Fog" (Iran)
• Alisher Khamidhodjaev & Maxim Drozdov - "Paper Soldier" (Russia)
• Alexei Arsentiev - "Wolfy" (Russia)

Best Performance by an Actress

• Award Winner: Hye-ja Kim ("Mother")
• Nominees:
• Golshifteh Farahani - "About Elly" (Iran)
• Hye-ja Kim - "Mother" (South Korea)
• Malani Fonseka - Flowers of the Sky (India)
• Yana Troyanova - "Wolfy" (Russia)
• Xun Zhou - "The Equation of Love & Death" (China)

Best Performance by an Actor

• Award Winner: Masahiro Motoki ("Departures")
• High Commendation: Ik-jun Yang ("Breathless")
• Nominees:
• Masahiro Motoki - "Departures" (Japan)
• Ik-jun Yang - "Breathless" (South Korea)
• Mohamed Bakri - "Laila's Birthday" (Palestine/Tunisia/Netherlands)
• Naseeruddin Shah - "A Wednesday" (India)
• You Ge - "If You Are the One" (China)

Achievement in Directing

• Award Winner: Chuan Lu ("City of Life and Death")
• Nominees:
• Asghar Farhadi - "About Elly" (Iran)
• Chuan Lu - "City of Life and Death" (China)
• Vimukthi Jayasundara - "Between Two Worlds" (Sri Lanka/France)
• Anurag Kashyap - "Dev.D" (India)
• Sion Sono - "Love Exposure" (Japan)

FIAPF Award

• Isao Matsuoka (former Chairperson of Toho Company)

UNESCO Award

• "Agrarian Utopia" - Uruphong Raksasad (Thailand)

Jury Grand Prize

• "About Elly" / "The Time That Remains"