2009 (3rd) Asia Pacific Screen Awards

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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"

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