15th Asia Pacific Screen Awards

• Before, Now & Then – Kamila Andini ‡
  • Poet – Darezhan Omirbaev
  • Return to Seoul – Davy Chou
  • This Is What I Remember – Aktan Arym Kubat
  • When the Waves Are Gone – Lav Diaz

• Davy Chou – Return to Seoul ‡
  • Kamila Andini – Before, Now & Then
  • Lav Diaz – When the Waves Are Gone
  • Ameer Fakher Eldin – The Stranger
  • Shin Su-won – Hommage

• Lee Jung-eun – Hommage as Ji-wan ‡
  • John Lloyd Cruz – When the Waves Are Gone as Hermes Papauran
  • Aktan Arym Kubat – This Is What I Remember
  • Navid Mohammadzadeh – Beyond the Wall as Ali
  • Happy Salma – Before, Now & Then as Nana

• Farha – Darin J. Sallam ‡
  • Alam – Firas Khoury
  • Hanging Gardens – Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji
  • Jaggi – Anmol Sidhu
  • Sweet As – Jub Clerc

• Aurora's Sunrise – Inna Sahakyan ‡
  • Dounia and the Princess of Aleppo – Marya Zarif and André Kadi
  • Goodbye, Don Glees! – Atsuko Ishizuka
  • Silver Bird and Rainbow Fish – Lei Lei
  • To the Bright Side – Xiya Lan, Nianze Li, Yi Zhao, Kun Yu, Gaoxiang Liu, Maoning Liu and Chen Chen

• All That Breathes – Shaunak Sen ‡
• Delikado – Karl Malakunas (Special Mention)
  • Blue Island – Chan Tze-woon
  • Children of the Mist – Diem Ha Le
  • Woodgirls – A Duet for a Dream – Azadeh Bizargiti

• Makbul Mubarak – Autobiography ‡
  • Vahid Jalilvand – Beyond the Wall
  • Aktan Arym Kubat and Dalmira Tilepbergenova – This Is What I Remember
  • Darezhan Omirbaev – Poet
  • Park Chan-wook and Jeong Seo-kyeong – Decision to Leave

• Niklas Lindschau – The Stranger ‡
  • Batara Goempar – Before, Now & Then
  • Florent Herry – Snow and the Bear
  • Lv Songye – One and Four
  • Boris Troshev – Poet

Park Ji-min – Return to Seoul‡

This Is What I Remember – Aktan Arym Kubat, Altynai Koichumanova, Denis Vaslin, Yuji Sadai, Carine Chichkowsky and Fleur Knopperts ‡

Muru – Tearepa Kahi ‡

Saim Sadiq for Joyland ‡

Nadine Labaki ‡