1st Asian Film Awards

Awards

Best Film

• Winner: The Host
• * Curse of the Golden Flower
• *Exiled
• *Love and Honor
• *Opera Jawa
• *Still Life
• *Sivaji

  Best Director

• Winner: Jia Zhangke, Still Life
• *Hong Sang-soo, Woman on the Beach
• *Jafar Panahi, Offside
• *Johnnie To, Exiled
• *Tsai Ming-liang, I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
• *Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Syndromes and a Century

  Best Actor

• Winner: Song Kang-ho, The Host
• *Chang Chen, The Go Master
• *Rain, I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
• *Shahrukh Khan,
• *Andy Lau, A Battle of Wits
• *Ken Watanabe, Memories of Tomorrow

  Best Actress

• Winner: Miki Nakatani, Memories of Matsuko
• *Gong Li, Curse of the Golden Flower
• *Kim Hye-soo,
• *Im Soo-jung, I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
• *Rie Miyazawa, Hana
• *Zhang Ziyi, The Banquet

  Best Screenwriter

• Winner: Mani Haghighi, Men at Work
• *Hong Sang-soo, Woman on the Beach
• *Tetsuya Oishi and Shusuke Kaneko, Death Note
• *Sohn Jae-gon, My Scary Girl
• *Prabda Yoon, Invisible Waves
• *Zhang Cheng, Yue Xiajun, Ning Ha, Crazy Stone

  Best Cinematographer

• Winner: Kim Hyung-koo, The Host
• *Andrew Lau and Lai Yiu Fai, Confession of Pain
• *Liao Pen-jung, I Don't Want to Sleep Alone
• *Sayombhu Mukdeeprom, Syndromes and a Century
• *Wang Yu, The Go Master

  Best Production Designer

• Winner: Tim Yip, The Banquet
• *Cho Geun-hyun, Forbidden Quest
• *Towako Kuwajima, Memories of Matsuko
• *Patrick Tam and Cyrus Ho, After This Our Exile
• *Emi Wada, The Go Master

  Best Composer

• Winner: Rahayu Supanggah, Opera Jawa
• *Jeong Yong-jin, Woman on the Beach
• *Peter Kam, Isabella
• *Lim Giong, Still Life
• *Tamiya Terashima, Tales from Earthsea

  Best Editor

• Winner: Lee Chatametikool, Syndromes and a Century
• *Kim Sun-min, The Host
• *Angie Lam, Dog Bite Dog
• *Park Gok-ji and Jeong Jin-hee, A Dirty Carnival
• *Patrick Tam, After This Our Exile

  Best Visual Effects

• Winner: The Orphanage, The Host
• *Angela Barson and Chung Chi-hang, Curse of the Golden Flower
• *DTI, ETRI, The Restless
• *Ohya Tetsuo, Kamiya Makoto, Onoue Katsuro, The Sinking of Japan
• *Masahide Yanagawase, Memories of Matsuko

  Special Awards

• Box Office Star of Asia Award: Andy Lau
• Asian Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asian Cinema: Josephine Siao Fong-fong, presented by Luc Besson
• Asian Film Award for Excellence in Scholarship in Asian Cinema: David Bordwell, presented by Johnnie To