17th Asian Film Awards

Asian Film Awards ceremony

Presented byThe Asian Film Awards Academy (AFAA)Announced onNominations: January 12, 2024 (2024-01-12)Presented onMarch 10, 2024 (2024-03-10)SiteXiqu Centre, Hong KongOfficial websiteafa-academy.comTelevision coverageNetworkYouTube

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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]

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.^[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	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
6	Evil Does Not Exist
4	Paradise
4	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

References

^ "17th Asian Film Awards: Press Conference Sets the Stage for Asian Cinema's Biggest Night on 10 March". Asian Film Awards Academy. January 12, 2024. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
^ Frater, Patrick (January 11, 2024). "'Evil Does Not Exist,' '12.12: The Day' Lead Asian Film Awards Nominations". Variety. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
^ Frater, Patrick (March 10, 2024). "'Evil Does Not Exist' Wins Best Picture at Asian Film Awards". Variety. Retrieved March 11, 2024.
^ Lee, Edmund (January 12, 2024). "Asian Film Awards 2024 nominations in full: Evil Does Not Exist and 12.12: The Day lead the field; 2 Hong Kong movies earn nods in 3 categories". South China Morning Post. Retrieved February 12, 2024.
^ Arpitaadhya (February 6, 2024). "17th Asian Film Awards: Thai Star Win Metawin Snags Special Award as the Emerging Icon". Coming Soon. Retrieved February 12, 2024.