Nora Aunor is Best Actress, Brillante Mendoza is Best Director at Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Along with the national premiere of the movie Thy Womb, comes the news that its lead star Nora Aunor and director Brillante Mendoza won Best Actress and Best Director respectively at the recently-held Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

Held on November 23 at the Queensland Performing Arts Center in Brisbane, Australia, the APSA is the equivalent of US’s Oscar Awards in the Asia Pacific.

Nora and Brillante weren’t able to attend the the awards night because Thy Womb’s premiere happened the same night.

Meanwhile, Chris Martinez, whose Ang Babae Sa Septic Tank was nominated under Best Screenplay category, didn’t win.

Here are the complete list of winners of the 6th Annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards:

BEST FEATURE FILM

• Tepenin Ardi (Beyond the Hill)
  Turkey, Greece
  Produced by Enis Köstepen, Seyfi Teoman, Emin Alper
  Co-Produced by Nikos Moutselos

*High Commendation:

• Bumchoiwaui Junjaeng (Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time)
  Republic of Korea
  Produced by Park Shin-kyu, Han Jae-duk

BEST CHILDREN’S FEATURE FILM

• Laut Bercermin (The Mirror Never Lies)
  Indonesia
  Produced by Garin Nugroho, Nadine Chandrawinata
  Orchim Lerega (Off White Lies)

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

• In My Mother’s Arms
  Iraq, UK, Netherlands
  Produced by Isabelle Stead, Atia Jabarah Al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah

*High Commendation:

• Planet of Snail
  Republic of Korea, Japan, Finland
  Produced by Kim Min-chul, Gary Kam
  Co-Produced by Janne Niskala, Imamura Ken-ichi

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

• Momo e no tegami (A Letter to Momo)
  Japan
  Produced by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Shigeru Watanabe, Kazuya Hamana

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING

• Brillante Ma. Mendoza for Sinapupunan (Thy Womb)
  Philippines

*High Commendation:

• Cheng Er for Lethal Hostage
  People’s Republic of China

BEST SCREENPLAY

• Reis Çelik for Lal gece (Night of Silence)
  Turkey

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Touraj Aslani for Fasle Kargadan (Rhino Season)
  Iraqi-Kurdistan,Turkey

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR

• Choi Min-sik for Bumchoiwaui Junjaeng (Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time)
  Republic of Korea

*High Commendation:

• Lior Ashkenazi for Hearat Shulayim (Footnote)
  Israel

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS

• Nora Aunor for Sinapupunan (Thy Womb)
  Philippines

*High Commendation:

• Darya Ekamasova for Zila bila odna baba (Once Upon a Time There Lived a Simple Woman)
  Russian Federation

SCREEN INTERNATIONAL JURY GRAND PRIZES

• Director: Anurag Kashyap, India, Gangs of Wasseypur
• Actress: Cho Min-soo, Korea, Pieta

*High Commendation:

• Screenplay: Joseph Cedar, Israel, Hearat Shulayim (Footnote)

APSA FIAPF AWARD (For Outstanding Achievement in Film in the Asia Pacific Region)

• Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japan

UNESCO AWARD (for outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film)

• Director Wei Te-sheng (Director) and John Woo, Terence Chang and Jimmy Huang (Producers), Taiwan, Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale

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