9th Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Cemetery of Splendour

• End of Winter
• Journey to the Shore
• The Assassin

Aleksei Alekseivich German - Under Electric Clouds

• Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Cemetery of Splendour
• Ermek Tursunov - Stranger
• Hou Hsiao-hsien - The Assassin
• Park Jung-bum - Alive

Jung Jae-young - Right Now, Wrong Then

• Reef Ireland - Downriver
• Aleksei Guskov - The Find
• Misha Gomiashvili - The President
• Shide Nyima - Tharlo

Kirin Kiki - Sweet Bean

• Fatemeh Motamed-Arya - Avalanche
• Shamaine Buencamino - Lorna
• Evgeniya Mandzhieva - The Gulls
• Lee Young-ran - End of Winter

Senem Tüzen - Motherland

• Emin Alper - Frenzy
• Vimukthi Jayasundara - Dark in the White Light
• Kenzhebek Shaikakov - Tent
• Xin Yukun, Feng Yuanliang - The Coffin in the Mountain

Mark Lee Ping Bin - The Assassin

• Jean-Marc Ferriére - Sunrise
• Miaoyan Zhang - A Corner of Heaven
• Songye Lu - Tharlo
• Murat Aliyev - Stranger

Miss Hokusai

• When Marnie Was There
• The Snow Queen 2: The Snow King
• The Road Called Life
• Blinky Bill the Movie

The Chinese Mayor

• The Look of Silence
• A Flag without a Country
• Another Country
• Among the Believers

River

• Set Me Free
• Mustang
• Mina Walking
• A Corner of Heaven

The Idol

• A Corner of Heaven
• Spear
• Motherland
• The Gulls

Esaad Younis

Heavenly Nomadic