14th Asia Pacific Screen Awards

Film awards ceremony

The 14th Asia Pacific Screen Awards were held on 11 November 2021 in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia.^[1]^[2]

Jury

International Jury was composed of:

Tran Anh Hung, President, French/Vietnamese filmmaker
Annemarie Jacir, Palestinian filmmaker
Nashen Moodley, Director of Sydney Film Festival (Australia)
Sooni Taraporevala, Indian photographer, screenwriter and filmmaker
Janet Wu, President of Heaven Pictures and Director of China Film Foundation – Wu Tianming Film Fund for Young Talents, (People’s Republic of China)

Winners and nominees

Complete list of nominees:^[3]^[4] and Winners:^[5]

Best Feature Film	Achievement in Directing
Drive My Car - Ryusuke Hamaguchi A Hero - Asghar Farhadi A Night of Knowing Nothing - Payal Kapadia The Pencil - Natalya Nazarova There Is No Evil - Mohammad Rasoulof	Asghar Farhadi - A Hero Dea Kulumbegashvili - Beginning Ryusuke Hamaguchi - Drive My Car - P. S. Vinothraj - Pebbles Kamila Andini - Yuni
Best Performance by an Actor	Best Performance by an Actress
Merab Ninidze – House Arrest Levan Tediashvili Brighton 4th Hidetoshi Nishijima – Drive My Car Caleb Landry Jones – Nitram Amir Jadidi – A Hero	Azmeri Haque Badhon – Rehana Maryam Noor Alena Yiv – Asia as Asia Valentina Romanova-Chyskyyray – Scarecrow Leah Purcell – The Drover’s Wife The Legend of Molly Johnson as Molly Johnson Essie Davis – The Justice of Bunny King as Bunny King
Best Screenplay	Best Youth Feature Film
Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe – Drive My Car Dana Idisis - Here We Are Asif Rustamov, Roelof Jan Minneboo, Ilgar Najaf - Sughra's Sons Asghar Farhadi - A Hero Nasim Ahmadpour, Shahram Mokri - Careless Crime	Moving On - Yoon Dan-bi Brother’s Keeper - Ferit Karahan Scales (Sayidat Al Bahr) - Shahad Ameen Voices in the Wind - Nobuhiro Suwa When Pomegranates Howl - Granaz Moussavi
Best Documentary Feature Film	Best Animated Feature Film
Sabaya - Hogir Hirori Gorbachev. Heaven - Vitaly Mansky Miguel's War - Eliane Raheb The Devil's Drivers - Mohammed Abugeth, Daniel Carsenty Writing with Fire - Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas	The Nose or the Conspiracy of Mavericks (Nos, ili Zagovor Netakih) - Andrei Khrzhanovsky Beauty Water - Cho Kyung-hun Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko - Ayumu Watanabe The Knight and the Princess - Bashir el-Deek, Ibrahim Mousa Where Is Anne Frank - Ari Folman
Achievement in Cinematography	UNESCO Award
Nguyễn Vinh Phúc – Taste Akiko Ashizawa – Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash Feng Yuchao Robbin – A New Old Play Phuttiphong Aroonpheng – Anatomy of Time Vignesh Kumulai and Che Parthiban – Pebbles	Prasanna Vithanage – Children of the Sun

References

^ Frater, Patrick (11 November 2021). "'Drive My Car' Named Best Film at Asia Pacific Screen Awards". Variety. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
^ Tom Grater (11 November 2021). "'Drive My Car' Wins Best Feature At Asia Pacific Screen Awards". Deadline. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
^ Valerie Complex (12 October 2021). "Asia Pacific Screen Academy Announces Nominees For 14th Annual Awards Ceremony". Deadline. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
^ "Nominations For 14th Asia Pacific Screen Awards 2021". Scene Str. 27 October 2021. Retrieved 17 November 2021.
^ Tabbara, Mona (11 November 2021). "'Drive My Car' claims top prize at Asia Pacific Screen Awards". Screen Daily. Retrieved 17 November 2021.