The winners of the 7th Annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards have been announced. The 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Awards “is an international cultural initiative of the State Government of Queensland, Australia, through Events Queensland, to honor and promote the films, actors, directors, and cultures of Asia-Pacific to a global audience and to realism the objectives of UNESCO to promote and preserve the respective cultures through the influential medium of film.”
The full listing of the 2013 Asia Pacific Screen Awards winners:
BEST FEATURE FILM
Omar
Palestine
Produced by Hany Abu-Assad, Waleed F. Zuaiter, David Gerson
Written and directed by Hany Abu-Assad
Attending Nominee: David Gerson
BEST CHILDREN’S FEATURE FILM
Juvenile Offender (Beom-joe So-nyeon)
Republic of Korea
Produced by Park Joo-young
Written and directed by Kang Yi-kwan, co-written by Park Joo-young
Attending Nominee: Park Joo-young
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM
The Act of Killing
Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom
Produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen, Joram Ten Brink, Christine Cynn, Anne Köhncke, Joshua Oppenheimer, Michael Uwemedimo, anonymous Indonesian producers
Co-Produced by Torstein Grude, Bjarte Mørner Tveit, Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn
Co-directed by Joshua Oppenheimer, Christine Cynn and anonymous Indonesian directors
Attending Nominee: Anne Köhncke
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM
Koo! Kin-Dza-Dza
Russian Federation
Produced by Sergey Selyanov, Leonid Yarmolnik, Yuri Kushnerev, Oleg Urushev, Konstantin Ernst
Written and directed by Georgi Daneliya; co-written by Andrey Usachev and Alexander Adabashian; co-directed by Tatiana Ilunia
Representative attending: Tatiana Ilunia (Co-Director, Koo! Kin-Dza-Dza)
ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING
Anthony Chen for Ilo Ilo
Singapore
Written by Anthony Chen, produced by Ang Hwee Sim, Anthony Chen and Wahyuni A Hadi
Attending Nominee: Anthony Chen
SPECIAL MENTIONS IN DIRECTING
Emir Baigazin for Harmony Lessons (Uroki Garmonii)
Kazakhstan, Germany, France
Hiner Saleem for My Sweet Pepper Land
Iraqi Kurdistan, France, Germany
BEST SCREENPLAY
Ritesh Batra for The Lunchbox
India, France, Germany
Directed by Ritesh Batra; produced by Arun Rangachari, Anurag Kashyap and Guneet Monga
Representative attending: Sanjay Ram (Marketing and Festivals Manager, Sikhya Entertainment)
ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY
Lu Yue for Back to 1942 (Yi Jiu Si Er)
People’s Republic of China
Written by Liu Zhenyun; directed by Feng Xiaogang; produced by Wang Zhonglei and Zhang Heping
Representative attending: Yoyao Hsueh (Senior Manager of Co-Productions and Acquisitions, Huayi Brothers)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR
Lee Byung-hun in Masquerade
Republic of Korea
Written by Choo Chang-min and Hwang Jo-yun; directed by Choo Chang-min; produced by Chung Ji-hoon and Won Dong-yeon
Representative attending: Won Dong-yeon (Producer, Masquerade)
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS
Zhang Ziyi in The Grandmaster (Yi dai zong shi)
Hong Kong (PRC), People’s Republic of China
Written by Wong Kar-wai, Zou Jingzhi, Xu Haofeng; directed by Wong Kar-wai; produced by Jacky Pang Yee Wah and Wong Kar-wai
JURY GRAND PRIZE
Television
Bangladesh
Produced by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Co-Produced by Mahboob Rahman
Written by Anisul Hoque and Mostofa Sarwar Farooki; directed by Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Representative attending: Anisul Hoque (screenwriting nominee, Television); Nusrat Imrose Tisha (actress, Television)
Ritesh Batra for The Lunchbox
India, France, Germany
Written and directed by Ritesh Batra; produced by Arun Rangachari, Anurag Kashyap and Guneet Monga
Representative attending: Sanjay Ram (Marketing and Festivals Manager, Sikhya Entertainment)
UNESCO AWARD
The Painting Pool
Produced by Manoochehr Mohammadi
Islamic Republic of Iran
Written Hamed Mohammadi; directed by Maziar Miri
Representative attending: Negar Javaherian (actress nominee, The Painting Pool)
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Source: Asiapacificscreenacademy, Wikipedia
