The 10th Asia Pacific Screen Awards were held on Thursday, 24 November 2016 at the Brisbane Conventions and Exhibition Centre in Brisbane, Australia.
On 9 September 2016, five juries were announced. They are an Academy Awards winner David Puttnam, a former chairman of Busan International Film Festival Kim Dong-ho, a current chairman of Busan International Film Festival Nansun Shi, an Academy Awards nominee and a Palme d'Or winner Jan Chapman and a Palme d'Or nominee Shyam Benegal.
David Wenham and Anjali Rao was announced as the host of the event on 2 November 2016. On the same day, a Grammy Awards winner Sumi Jo was also announced to perform at the event.
Winners and nominees
Nominees for the Cultural Diversity Award was announced on 14 October 2016, followed by Animation, Documentary and Youth awards on 17 October and the nominees for the feature film was announced on 24 October 2016.
Best Feature Film Achievement in Directing Cold of Kalandar The Student Daughter Ember Muhammad: The Messenger of God Feng Xiaogang - I Am Not Madame Bovary Anurag Kashyap - Psycho Raman Bi Gan - Kaili Blues Lee Joon-ik - The Throne Zeki Demirkubuz - Ember Best Actor Best Actress Manoj Bajpayee - Aligarh Sunny Pawar - Lion Nawazuddin Siddiqui - Psycho Raman Dev Patel - Lion Farhad Aslani - Daughter Song Kang-ho - The Throne Hasmine Killip - Ordinary People Youn Yuh-jung - The Bacchus Lady Agrippina Steklova - Insight Natalia Pavlenkova - Zoology Aslihan Gürbüz - Ember Best Screenplay Achievement in Cinematography Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Tadashi Nohara & Tomoyuki Takahashi - Happy Hour Leena Yadav & Supratik Sen - Parched Yang Chao - Crosscurrent Mehran Kashani - Daughter Gurvinder Singh & Waryam Singh Sandhu - The Fourth Direction Cevahir Şahin & Kürşat Üresin - Cold of Kalandar Mark Lee Ping Bing - Crosscurrent Jay Oza - Psycho Raman Wang Tianxing - Kaili Blues Gorka Gómez Andreu - House of Others Vittorio Storaro - Muhammad: The Messenger of God Best Animated Feature Film Best Documentary Feature Film Seoul Station Bilal Manang Biring Savva Sheep and Wolves Starless Dreams City of Jade Exile Snow Monkey Under the Sun Best Youth Feature Film Cultural Diversity Award The World of Us Breath The Quest Wolf and Sheep The Trap Hussein Hassan - The Dark Wind Dmitrii Davydov - The Bonfire Tamer El Said - In the Last Days of the City Wang Xuebo - Knife in the Clear Water Mustafa Kara - Cold of KalandarYoung Cinema Award Mustafa Kara - Cold of Kalandar Bi Gan - Kaili Blues Though they do not win, they're the winners of Jury Grand Prize. Though they do not win, they received a "special mention".
Multiple wins and nominations
The following films received multiple nominations: Nominations Film 4 Cold of Kalandar 3 Daughter Ember Kaili Blues Psycho Raman 2 Crosscurrent Lion Muhammad: The Messenger of God The Throne
The following film received multiple awards: Wins Film 3 Cold of Kalandar
The following countries received multiple nominations: Nominations Country 10 7 6 5 2
The following countries received multiple awards: Wins Country 3 2
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