# 17th Asian Film Awards

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

## Jury

* Kiyoshi Kurosawa – Jury President, director and writer

## Winners and nominations

The nominations were announced on January 12, 2024 and led by Evil Does Not Exist and 12.12: The Day with six.
| 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 | 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 |
| 6 | Evil Does Not Exist |
| 4 | Paradise |
| 4 | Snow Leopard |
| 3 | Concrete Utopia |
| 3 | Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms |
| 3 | Dwelling by the West Lake |
| 3 | Godzilla Minus One |
| 3 | The Goldfinger |
| 3 | Monster |
| 3 | Only the River Flows |
| 3 | Smugglers |
| 3 | Snow in Midsummer |
| 3 | Time Still Turns the Pages |
| 2 | Abang Adik |
| 2 | City of Wind |
| 2 | Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell |
| 2 | Kubi |
| 2 | Last Shadow at First Light |
| 2 | Perfect Days |
| 2 | Qas |
| 2 | Rapture |
| 2 | Sleep |