# 5th Asian Film Awards

The 5th Asian Film Awards was given in a ceremony on 21 March 2011 as part of the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

## Nominees and Winners
### Best Film

* Winner: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand)
** Aftershock (China)
** Confessions (Japan)
** Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
** Peepli Live (India)
** Poetry (South Korea)

### Best Director

* Winner: Lee Chang-dong, Poetry (South Korea)
** Feng Xiaogang, Aftershock (China)
** Jiang Wen, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
** Takashi Miike, 13 Assassins (Japan)
** Na Hong-jin, The Yellow Sea (South Korea)
** Tetsuya Nakashima, Confessions (Japan)

### Best Actor

* Winner: Ha Jung-woo, The Yellow Sea (South Korea)
** Chow Yun-fat, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
** Ge You, Sacrifice (China/Hong Kong)
** Ethan Juan, Monga (Taiwan)
** Kōji Yakusho, 13 Assassins (Japan)

### Best Actress

* Winner: Xu Fan, Aftershock (China)
** Jeon Do-yeon, The Housemaid (South Korea)
** Rinko Kikuchi, Norwegian Wood (Japan)
** Takako Matsu, Confessions (Japan)
** Michelle Yeoh, Reign of Assassins (Malaysia/China/Hong Kong/Thailand)

### Best Newcomer

* Winner: Mark Chao, Monga (Taiwan)
** Aarif Lee, Echoes of the Rainbow (Hong Kong)
** Omkar Das Manikpuri, Peepli Live (India)
** T.O.P, 71: Into the Fire (South Korea)
** Zhou Dongyu, Under the Hawthorn Tree (China)

### Best Supporting Actor

* Winner: Sammo Hung, Ip Man 2 (Hong Kong)
** Huang Xiaoming, Sacrifice (China/Hong Kong)
** Masaki Okada, Confessions (Japan)
** Ryoo Seung-bum, The Unjust (South Korea)
** Yoo Hae-jin, Moss (South Korea)

### Best Supporting Actress

* Winner: Youn Yuh-jung, The Housemaid (South Korea)
** Yū Aoi, Ototo (Japan)
** Yoshino Kimura, Confessions (Japan)
** Carina Lau, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
** Shanty Paredes, Madame X (Indonesia)

### Best Screenwriter

* Winner: Lee Chang-dong, Poetry (South Korea)
** Jiang Wen and Jiang Wen, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
** Pang Ho-cheung and Heiward Mak, Love in a Puff (film) (Hong Kong)
** Su Chao-Pin, Reign of Assassins (China/Hong Kong/Thailand)
** Park Hoon-Jung, The Unjust (South Korea)

### Best Cinematographer

* Winner: Mark Lee Ping Bin, Norwegian Wood) (Japan)
** Lee Mo-gae, I Saw the Devil (South Korea)
** Hassan Kydyraliyev, The Light Thief (Kyrgyzstan)
** Kenny Tse Chung-to, The Stool Pigeon (Hong Kong)
** Jake Pollock, Monga (Taiwan)

### Best Production Designer

* Winner: Hayashida Yuji, 13 Assassins (Japan)
** James Sung-pong, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (China/Hong Kong)
** Eros Eflin, Madame X (Indonesia)
** Huang Mei-Ching and Chen Po-Jen, Monga (Taiwan)
** Lee Hwo-kyoung, The Yellow Sea (South Korea)

### Best Composer

* Winner: Indian Ocean, Peepli Live (India)
** Saito Kazuyoshi, Golden Slumbers (Japan)
** Sandee Chan, Monga (Taiwan)
** Peter Kam Pui-tat and Anthony Chue, Reign of Assassins (China/Hong Kong/Taiwan)
** Jang Young-gyu and Lee Byung-hoon, The Yellow Sea (South Korea)

### Best Editor

* Winner: Nam Na-young, I Saw the Devil (South Korea)
** Kenji Yamashita, 13 Assassins (Japan)
** Koike Yoshiyuki, Confessions (Japan)
** Hemanti Sarkar, Peepli Live (India)
** Meng Peicong, Under the Hawthorn Tree (film) (China)

### Best Visual Effects

* Winner: Phil Jones and Jiang Yan-ming, Aftershock (China)
** Kim Tae-hun and Ryu Hee-jung, 71: Into the Fire (South Korea)
** Phil Jones, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (China/Hong Kong)
** Yamazaki Takashi, Space Battleship Yamato (Japan)
** Park Jung-ryul, The Man from Nowhere (South Korea)

### Best Costume Designer

* Winner: William Chang Suk Ping, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
** Sawataishi Kazuhiro, 13 Assassins (Japan)
** Bruce Yu Ka-on, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (China/Hong Kong)
** Yen-Khe Luguern, Norwegian Wood (Japan)
** Choi Se-yeon, The Housemaid (South Korea)

### Special Awards

* Lifetime Achievement Award: Raymond Chow (Hong Kong)
* Asian Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asian Cinema: Kim Dong-ho (South Korea)
* The Asian Film Awards for 2010’s Top Grossing Asian Film: Feng Xiaogang, Aftershock (China)
* Award for the Promotion of Asian CinemaBack: Fortissimo Films

### People's Choice Awards

* Favorite Actor: Chow Yun-fat, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
* Favorite Actress: Jeon Do-yeon, The Housemaid (South Korea)