Asia Pacific Screen Awards - Wikipedia Asia Pacific Screen Awards Asia Pacific Screen Awards 11th Asia Pacific Screen Awards Asia Pacific Screen Awards logo Awarded for Best in film and documentary in the Asia - Pacific region Country Australia Presented by UNESCO, FIAPF and Brisbane City Council, Australia First awarded 2007 Website Official Website The Asia Pacific Screen Awards ( APSA ) is an international cultural initiative of the Brisbane City Council, Australia, to honour and promote the films, actors, directors, and cultures of the Asia - Pacific region to a global audience and to realise the objectives of UNESCO to promote and preserve the respective cultures through the influential medium of film. Staged for the first time in 2007, APSA collaborates with UNESCO and FIAPF - International Federation of Film Producers Associations. Winners are determined by an international jury and films are judged on cinematic excellence and the way in which they attest to their cultural origins. APSA takes the works of filmmakers across more than 70 countries and areas in the Asia - Pacific region to new international audiences. Nominees are automatically inducted into the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, a growing world - class body of Asia - Pacific filmmakers. Australian screen legend, Jack Thompson AM, is the President of the Academy. The 11th annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards was held in Brisbane, Australia on 23 November 2017. The International Jury that determined the winners was led by award - winning Australian film editor Jill Bilcock alongside Yoshi Yatabe, He Saifei, Adolfo Alix Jr and Adilkhan Yerzhanov. Past International Jury members include Asghar Farhadi, Anthony Chen, Hiam Abbass, Lu Yue, Maciej Stuhr, Rajit Kapur, Shyam Benegal, Malini Fonseka, Nansun Shi, Lord David Puttnam, Sergey Dvortsevoy, Salman Aristo, Gina Kim, Samuel Maoz, Kaori Momoi, Tahmineh Milani, Jan Chapman, Sasson Gabai, Tian Zhuangzhuang, Aparna Sen, Bruce Beresford, Huang Jianxin, Shabana Azmi and Jafar Panahi. Contents 1 Film categories and awards 2 Major award winners 3 References 4 External links Film categories and Awards Films can be submitted in one or all of four film categories : Feature Film Animated Feature Film Youth Feature Film Documentary Feature Film Awards are presented for the following achievements : Best Feature Film Best Animated Feature Film Best Documentary Feature Film Best Youth Feature Film Achievement in Directing Best Screenplay Achievement in Cinematography Best Performance by an Actress Best Performance by an Actor Best Original Score In addition, three special awards are presented for outstanding achievement. The FIAPF Award : The International Federation of Film Producers Associations ( FIAPF ) determines the winner of the award for outstanding achievement in film in the Asia Pacific region. Cultural Diversity Award under the patronage of UNESCO : The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ( UNESCO ) Award is for the outstanding contribution to the promotion and preservation of cultural diversity through film. The Jury Grand Prize : The Jury of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards can, at its discretion, present a further award. APSA Young Cinema Award presented by NETPAC ( Network for the Promotion of Asian Cinema ) and Griffith Film School ( GFS ) recognises the abundant emerging talent of the Asia Pacific. Major award winners Year Best Film Achievement in Directing Best Performance by an Actor Best Performance by an Actress Best Screenplay 2007 1st Secret Sunshine Rakhshan Bani - E'temad, Mohsen Abdolvahab Mainline Mehrdad Seddiqian The Night Bus Jeon Do - yeon Secret Sunshine Feroz Abbas Khan Gandhi, My Father 2008 2nd Tulpan Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Three Monkeys Reza Naji The Song of Sparrows Hiam Abbass Lemon Tree Eran Riklis and Suha Arraf Lemon Tree 2009 3rd Samson & Delilah Lu Chuan City of Life and Death Masahiro Motoki Departures Kim Hye - ja Mother Asghar Farhadi About Elly 4th Aftershock Lee Chang - dong Poetry Chen Daoming Aftershock Yoon Jeong - hee Poetry Samuel Maoz Lebanon 2011 5th A Separation Nuri Bilge Ceylan Once Upon a Time in Anatolia ' Wang Baoqiang Mr. Tree Nadezhda Markina Elena Denis Osokin Silent Souls 2012 6th Beyond the Hill Brillante Mendoza Thy Womb Choi Min - sik Nameless Gangster : Rules of the Time Nora Aunor Thy Womb Reis Çelik Night of Silence 2013 7th Omar Anthony Chen Ilo Ilo Lee Byung - hun Masquerade Zhang Ziyi The Grandmaster Ritesh Batra The Lunchbox 2014 8th Leviathan Nuri Bilge Ceylan Winter Sleep Cliff Curtis The Dark Horse Lü Zhong Red Amnesia Nima Javidi Melbourne 2015 9th Cemetery of Splendour Aleksei Alekseivich German Under Electric Clouds Jung Jae - young Right Now, Wrong Then Kirin Kiki Sweet Bean Senem Tüzen Motherland 2016 10th Cold of Kalandar Feng Xiaogang I Am Not Madame Bovary Manoj Bajpayee Aligarh Hasmine Killip Ordinary People Ryusuke Hamaguchi Tadashi Nohara & Tomoyuki Takahashi Happy Hour 2017 11th Sweet Country Andrey Zvyagintsev Loveless Rajkummar Rao Newton Nato Murvanidze Scary Mother Amit Masurkar Mayank Tewari Newton References Jump up ^ About us Archived 18 February 2011 at the Wayback Machine. External links Official website Asia Pacific Screen Awards Main awards Best Picture Best Animated Feature Film Best Documentary Feature Film Best Children 's Feature Film Achievement in Direction Best Screenplay Achievement in Cinematography Best Performance by an Actress Best Performance by an Actor Special awards FIAPF Award UNESCO Award Jury Grand Prize Ceremonies 2007 2008 2009 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 Continental film awards Africa Africa Movie Academy Awards Asia Asian Film Awards Asia Pacific Screen Awards Europe European Film Awards Lux Prize Ibero - America Platino Awards Premio Fénix Francophone Lumières Award Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Asia_Pacific_Screen_Awards&oldid=865446093 '' Categories : Asia Pacific Screen Awards Awards established in 2007 Asian film awards Recurring events established in 2007 Television awards Hidden categories : Webarchive template wayback links Use dmy dates from January 2012 Use Australian English from January 2012 All Wikipedia articles written in Australian English Talk Contents About Wikipedia Bahasa Indonesia Italiano 日本 語 Русский Edit links This page was last edited on 24 October 2018, at 00 : 51 ( UTC ). 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Question: who won the best actor award at 2017 asia pacific screen awards
Answer: Rajkummar Rao