14th Asia Pacific Screen Awards

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

14th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Awarded for	Excellence in Cinema and performance in Asia Pacific region
Awarded by	Asia Pacific Screen Academy
Presented by	UNESCO FIAPF-International Federation of Film Producers Associations
Date	11 November 2021 (2021-11-11)
Site	Home of the Arts, Gold Coast,  Australia
Official website	APSA 2021
Highlights
Best Film	Drive My Car
Best Direction	Asghar Farhadi A Hero
Best Actor	Merab Ninidze House Arrest
Best Actress	Azmeri Haque Badhon Rehana Maryam Noor
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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