Asian Film Award

The Asian Film Awards , or AFA for short ( Chinese  亞洲 電影 大獎  /  亚洲 电影 大奖 ) are awards for outstanding achievements by Asian filmmakers. Until 2019, the prizes were awarded in Hong Kong or Macau as part of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF). From 2020 the event will also take place in other locations in Asia, starting with Busan and the Busan International Film Festival in October 2020. Today, the celebrations are among the most influential film awards in Asia .

The first event took place on March 20, 2007 on the opening night of the 31st Hong Kong International Film Festival. A jury of 21 with representatives from all Asian countries awards prizes in ten categories.

In the first two years the event was dominated by filmmakers and films from South Korea, whereas in 2009 Japan won the most important awards. The Japanese horror film director Kiyoshi Kurosawa won the awards for best film as well as for best screenplay with Tokyo Sonata .

Grand Prize Winner

year	Best movie	Best director	Best actor	Best Actress	Best supporting actor	The best supporting actress
2007	The host	Jia Zhangke for Still Life	Song Kang-ho for The Host	Miki Nakatani for Memories of Matsuko	No award	No award
2008	Secret Sunshine	Lee Chang-dong for Secret Sunshine	Tony Leung for Danger and Desire	Jeon Do-yeon for Secret Sunshine	Sun Honglei for the Mongol	Joan Chen for The Sun Also Rises
2009	Tokyo Sonata	Koreeda Hirokazu for Still Walking	Masahiro Motoki for Nokan	Zhou Xun for The Equation of Love and Death	Jung Woo-sung for The Good, the Bad, the Weird	Gina Pareño for service
2010	Mother	Lu Chuan for City of Life and Death	Wang Xueqi for bodyguards and assassins	Kim Hye-yes for Mother	Nicholas Tse for Bodyguards and Assassins	Kara Hui for At the End of Daybreak
2011	Uncle Boonmee remembers his previous lives	Lee Chang-dong for poetry	Ha Jung-woo for The Yellow Sea	Xu Fan for aftershock	Sammo Hung for Ip Man 2	Yoon Yeo-jeong for The Housemaid
2012	Nader and Simin - A separation	Asghar Farhadi for Nader and Simin - A Separation	Donny Damara for Lovely Man	Deanie Ip for A Simple Life	Lawrence Ko for Jump Ashin!	Shamaine Buencamino for Niño
2013	Mystery	Takeshi Kitano for Outrage Beyond	Eddie Garcia for Bwakaw	Nora Aunor for Thy Womb	Nawazuddin Siddiqui for Talaash: The Answer Lies Within	Makiko Watanabe for Capturing Dad
2014	The Grandmaster	Wong Kar-wai for The Grandmaster	Irrfan Khan for lunch box	Zhang Ziyi for The Grandmaster	Huang Bo for No Man's Land	Yeo Yann Yann for Ilo Ilo
2015	Blind massage	Ann Hui for The Golden Era	Liao fan for fireworks in broad daylight	Bae Doona for A Girl at My Door	Wang Zhiwen for The Golden Era	Ikewaki Chizuru for Soko nomi nite hikari kagayaku
2016	The assassin	Hou Hsiao-hsien for The Assassin	Lee Byung-hun for Inside Men	Shu Qi for The Assassin	Tadanobu Asano for Journey to the Shore	Zhou Yun for The Assassin
2017	I Am Not Madame Bovary	Na Hong-jin for The Wailing	Tadanobu Asano for harmonium	Fan bingbing for I Am Not Madame Bovary	Lam Suet for Trivisa	Moon So-ri for The Pickpocket
2018	Youth	Yuya Ishii for The Tokyo Night Sky Is Always the Densest Shade of Blue	Louis Koo for Paradox	Sylvia Chang for Love Education	Yang Ik-june for Wilderness	Kitty Zhang for Legend of the Demon Cat
2019	Shoplifters	Lee Chang-dong for Burning	Kōji Yakusho for The Blood of Wolves	Samal Jesljamowa for Ayka	Zhang Yu for Dying to Survive	Kara Hui for Tracey

Source: AFA, AsianFilmAwards.org

Web links

• Official website (Chinese, English, Korean, Japanese)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jean Noh: Asian Film Awards to move to Busan in 2020. In: Screendaily. October 4, 2019, accessed on July 10, 2020 . 
2. ↑ 入圍 名單 及 得獎 者 - List of nominees and award winners. In: www.afa-academy.com. Retrieved February 26, 2020 (Chinese, English, official list).  
3. ↑ Award Watch. In: www.asianfilmawards.org. Retrieved February 26, 2020 (Japanese).