17th Asian Film Awards

The 17th Asian Film Awards was held on March 10, 2024 at the Xiqu Centre, Hong Kong.^[1] The nominations were announced on January 12, 2024.^[2] The winners were announced on March 10, 2024 with Evil Does Not Exist winning the best film award.^[3]

17th Asian Film Awards
Official poster
Awarded for	Excellence in Asian cinema
Awarded by	Hong Kong International Film Festival Busan International Film Festival Tokyo International Film Festival
Presented by	The Asian Film Awards Academy (AFAA)
Announced on	Nominations: January 12, 2024 (2024-01-12)
Presented on	March 10, 2024 (2024-03-10)
Site	Xiqu Centre, Hong Kong
Official website	afa-academy.com
Television coverage
Network	YouTube
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Jury

• Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Jury President, director and writer

Winners and nominations

Hirokazu Kore-eda, winner of Best Director Award

The nominations were announced on January 12, 2024 and led by Evil Does Not Exist and 12.12: The Day with six.^[4]

Best Film Evil Does Not Exist 12.12: The Day / Paradise Perfect Days Snow Leopard	Best Director Hirokazu Kore-eda – Monster Gu Xiaogang – Dwelling by the West Lake Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Evil Does Not Exist Kim Sung-su – 12.12: The Day Prasanna Vithanage – Paradise
Best Actor Koji Yakusho – Perfect Days as Hirayama Hwang Jung-min – 12.12: The Day as Major General Chun Doo-gwang Tony Leung Chiu-wai – The Goldfinger as Henry Ching Shen Teng – Full River Red as Zhang Da Wu Kang-ren – Abang Adik as Chen Ah-bang	Best Actress Jiang Qinqin – Dwelling by the West Lake as Tai Hua Jung Yu-mi – Sleep as Soo-jin Rinko Kikuchi – 658km, Yoko no Tabi as Yoko Audrey Lin – Trouble Girl as Xiao Xiao Zhou Dongyu – The Breaking Ice as Nana
Best Supporting Actor Park Hoon – 12.12: The Day as Colonel Moon Il-pyeong Nakamura Shidō II – Kubi as Naniwa Mosuke Park Jeong-min – Smugglers as Jang Do-ri Jack Tan – Abang Adik as Zhang Wen-di Sean Wong – Time Still Turns the Pages as Eli Cheng Yau Kit	Best Supporting Actress Rachel Leung – In Broad Daylight as Wong Siu-ling Go Min-si – Smugglers as Go Ok-bun Minami Hamabe – Godzilla Minus One as Noriko Ōishi Mariko Tsutsui – Last Shadow at First Light as Satomi Wanfang – Snow in Midsummer as Ah Eng
Best New Director Nick Cheuk – Time Still Turns the Pages Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir – City of Wind Amanda Nell Eu – Tiger Stripes Phạm Thiên Ân – Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell Dominic Sangma – Rapture	Best Newcomer Tergel Bold-Erdene – City of Wind as Ze Awat Ratanapintha – Doi Boy as Sorn Mihaya Shirata – Last Shadow at First Light as Ami Wang Yibo – Hidden Blade as Mr. Ye Yoyo Tse – Fly Me to the Moon
Best Screenplay Snow Leopard – Pema Tseden Evil Does Not Exist – Ryusuke Hamaguchi Monster – Yuji Sakamoto Paradise – Prasanna Vithanage and Anushka Senanayake / Sleep – Jason Yu	Best Editing 12.12: The Day – Kim Sang-bum Evil Does Not Exist – Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Azusa Yamazaki Only the River Flows – Matthieu Laclau Paradise – A. Sreekar Prasad / Time Still Turns the Pages – Nick Cheuk and Keith Hiu Chun Chan
Best Cinematography Snow Leopard – Matthias Delvaux 12.12: The Day – Lee Mo-gae Evil Does Not Exist – Yoshio Kitagawa Only the River Flows – Zhiyuan Chengma Qas – Azamat Dulatov	Best Original Music Evil Does Not Exist – Eiko Ishibashi Dwelling by the West Lake – Shigeru Umebayashi Qas – Akmaral Zykayeva Rapture – Anon Ch Momin //// Road to Boston – Lee Dong-june
Best Costume Design The Goldfinger – Man Lim-chung / Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms – Tim Yip Kubi – Kazuko Kurosawa Smugglers – Yoon Jung-hee Snow in Midsummer – Elaine Ng //	Best Production Design The Goldfinger – Eric Lam / Concrete Utopia – Cho Hwa-sung Monster – Keiko Mitsumatsu Only the River Flows – Menglun Zhang Snow Leopard – Daktse Drundrup
Best Visual Effects Godzilla Minus One – Takashi Yamazaki, Kiyoko Shibuya, Masaki Takahashi, and Tatsuji Nojima Concrete Utopia – Eun Jae-hyun Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms – Douglas Hans Smith, Joshua Bryer, and Jeremy Ball The Moon – Jin Jong-hyun The Wandering Earth 2 – Allen Wei, Ahdee Chiu, Ding Yanlai, and Eric Xu	Best Sound Godzilla Minus One – Natsuko Inoue Concrete Utopia – Kim Suk-won and Kim Eun-jung Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms – Yang Jiang and Zhao Nan Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell – Vuong Gia Bao and Toh Xander /// Snow in Midsummer – Tu Duu-chih and Wu Shu-yao //
Excellence in Asian Cinema Award Lee Young-ae Ryohei Suzuki	Lifetime Achievement Award Zhang Yimou
AFA Next Generation Award Metawin Opas-iamkajorn[5]	Asian Film Contribution Award To be announced

Films with multiple nominations and awards

Films that received multiple nominations

Nominations	Film
6	12.12: The Day
	Evil Does Not Exist
4	Paradise
	Snow Leopard
3	Concrete Utopia
	Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms
	Dwelling by the West Lake
	Godzilla Minus One
	The Goldfinger
	Monster
	Only the River Flows
	Smugglers
	Snow in Midsummer
	Time Still Turns the Pages
2	Abang Adik
	City of Wind
	Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell
	Kubi
	Last Shadow at First Light
	Perfect Days
	Qas
	Rapture
	Sleep