# 9th Asian Film Awards

The 9th Asian Film Awards are the 2015 edition of the Asian Film Awards. The ceremony was held at the Venetian Theatre in The Venetian Casino and Hotel in Macau.
South Korean director Im Kwon-taek received the Lifetime Achievement Award, while Japanese actress Miki Nakatani received the Excellence in Asian Cinema Award.
This year marked the second time that the awards were organized by the Hong Kong International Film Festival, joined by the Busan and Tokyo film festivals through the Asian Film Awards (AFA) Academy.

## Awards jury

The jury for the 9th Asian Film Awards are:
* Mabel Cheung (Hong Kong, film producer and director and president of the jury)
* Aaron Kwok (Hong Kong, actor and singer)
* Ronald Arguelles (Philippines, head of Cinema One premium cable channel)
* John Badalu (Indonesia, festival delegate for Berlin and Shanghai International Film Festival)
* Alberto Barbera (Italy, director of National Museum of Cinema and Venice Film Festival)
* Tetsuya Bessho (Japan, actor and founder of Short Shorts Film Festival & Asia)
* Jeane Huang (Taiwan, director of the Taipei Film Festival)
* Huh Moonyung (South Korea, film critic for Cine 21)
* Kenji Ishizaka (Japan, programming director of the Tokyo International Film Festival)
* Christian Jeune (France, director of the film department of the Cannes Film Festival)
* Kim Ji-seok (South Korea, executive programmer of Busan International Film Festival)
* Li Cheuk-To (Hong Kong, artistic director of the Hong Kong International Film Festival)
* Li Shaohong (China, film director and chairwoman of China Film Directors' Guild)
* Clarence Tsui (Hong Kong, film critic for The Hollywood Reporter)

## Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
| Best Film | Best Director |
| Blind Massage Black Coal, Thin Ice Haider Hill of Freedom The Light Shines Only There Ode to My Father | Ann Hui – The Golden Era Vishal Bhardwaj – Haider Lav Diaz – From What Is Before Hong Sang-soo – Hill of Freedom Lou Ye – Blind Massage Shinya Tsukamoto – Fires on the Plain |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Liao Fan – Black Coal, Thin Ice Choi Min-sik – The Admiral: Roaring Currents Ryo Kase – Hill of Freedom Sean Lau – Overh3ard Ethan Ruan – Paradise in Service Takeru Satoh – Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends | Bae Doona – A Girl at My Door Gong Li – Coming Home Kalki Koechlin – Margarita With A Straw Rie Miyazawa – Pale Moon Tang Wei – The Golden Era Zhao Wei – Dearest |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Wang Zhiwen – The Golden Era Chen Jianbin – Paradise in Service Cho Jin-woong – A Hard Day Hideaki Itō – Wood Job! Qin Hao – Blind Massage | Chizuru Ikewaki – The Light Shines Only There Han Ye-ri – Haemoo Haru Kuroki – The Little House Tabu – Haider Wan Qian – Paradise in Service |
| Best Newcomer | Best Screenwriter |
| Zhang Huiwen – Coming Home Zhan Huai-yun – Meeting Dr. Sun Do Kyung-soo – Cart Hiroomi Tosaka – Hot Road Ivana Wong – Golden Chickensss | Diao Yinan – Black Coal, Thin Ice Kim Seong-hun – A Hard Day Li Qiang – The Golden Era Chaitanya Tamhane – Court Ryo Takada – The Light Shines Only There |
| Best Cinematographer | Best Production Designer |
| Zeng Jian – Blind Massage Choi Chan-min – Kundo: Age of the Rampant Dong Jinsong – Black Coal, Thin Ice Matt Flannery and Dimas Imam Subhono – The Raid 2 Ryuto Kondo – My Man | Liu Qing – Gone with the Bullets Subrata Chakraborty and Amit Ray – Haider Yuji Hayashida and Eri Sakushima – Over Your Dead Body Park Il-hyun – Kundo: Age of the Rampant Yi Zhenzhou – The Taking of Tiger Mountain |
| Best Composer | Best Editor |
| Mikey McCleary – Margarita With A Straw BCDMG – Tokyo Tribes Cui Jian and Liu Yuan – Blue Sky Bones Mowg – The Fatal Encounter Zhang Yilin, Joe Hisaishi, Dou Peng, George Acogny and Shu Nan – Gone with the Bullets // | Gareth Evans – The Raid 2 Kim Chang-ju – A Hard Day Kwong Chi-leung and Manda Wai – The Golden Era Patrick Tam and Curran Pang – The Demon Within Hiroshi Sunaga – One Third |
| Best Visual Effects | Best Costume Designer |
| Rick Sanders and Christoph Zollinger – Gone with the Bullets Kang Jong-ik – The Pirates Kim Wook – The Taking of Tiger Mountain – Takashi Yamazaki – Parasyte: Part 1 Tong Ka-wai, Ken Law, Randy Tse and Lucky Tracy Hannah – The Midnight After | William Chang – Gone with the Bullets Isao Tsuge – Over Your Dead Body – Jeong Gyeong-hee – The Fatal Encounter – Kwon Yu-jin – The Taking of Tiger Mountain Liang Tingting – Brotherhood of Blades |
| Lifetime Achievement Award | Excellence in Asian Cinema Award |
| Im Kwon-taek | Miki Nakatani |