List of Singapore International Film Festival awards
The Singapore International Film Festival is an annual film festival held every year in Singapore. The festival was first held in 1987. It screens films from local and overseas countries. Film industry-related activities such as exhibitions, workshops and seminars are also organised for the Singapore International Film Festival.
The Silver Screen Awards Competition was introduced in 1991 to encourage advances in Asian film-making standards. Every year a select group of Asian feature films take part in the competition. Singapore short films also take part in a subcategory where a best film and best director are awarded.
Past winners
The director's name and country of production are in parentheses.1991 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asia Feature: Black Republic
- Special Jury Prize: The Man from Island West
- Best Film: August
- Special Jury Prize: The Cage
1992 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asia Feature: Life on a String
- Special Jury Prize: The Ferry
- Best Director: Edward Yang, A Brighter Summer Day
- Special Jury Prize: Waves of a Distant Shore
- Best Director: Meng Ong, Waves of a Distant Shore
1993 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: The Peach Blossom Land
- Special Jury Prize: Hill of no Return
- Best Director: Stan Lai, '
- Best Actress: Yang Kwei-mei, Hill of No Return
- NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: The Peach Blossom Land
- Special Jury Prize: Ragged
- Best Director': Meng Ong, Buddha's Garden''
1994 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asia Feature: Sopyonje '
- Special Jury Prize: Rebels of the Neon God '
- Special Jury Prize: Beijing Bastards '
- Special Jury mention: The Servile '
- Best Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang '
- Best Actor: Amrish Puri '
- Best Actress: Lü Liping '
- NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: The Servile '
- Best Film: Ethos ; Married
- Best Director, Special Achievement Award: Pain
- Special Jury Prize: Hurt Instinct
- Special Jury Prize: Eddy
1995 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: Vive l'Amour
- Special Jury Prize: Postman
- Best Actor: Xia Yu, In the Heat of the Sun
- Best Actress: Yang Kwei-Mei, Vive l'Amour
- NETPAC - FIPRESCI Award: A Borrowed Life
- NETPAC - FIPRESCI Special Mention: Mee Pok Man
- Special Jury Prize: I Can't Sleep Tonight
1996 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: Cardiogram
- Special Jury Prize: On the Beat
- Best Director: Edward Yang, Mahjong
- Best Actor: Bishnu Kharghoria, It's a Long Way to the Sea
- Special Achievement Award: Good Men, Good Women
- NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: Good Men, Good Women
- NETPAC-FIPRESCI Special Mention: It's a Long Way to the Sea
- Best Film: A Moveable Feast
- Best Director: Lim Suat Yen, Sense of Home
- Special Jury Prize: The Glare
- Special Achievement Award: Sense of Home
1997 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: Gabbeh
- Special Jury Prize: The River
- Best Director: Wu Tianming, The King of Masks
- Best Actor: Miao Tien, The River
- Best Actress: Machiko Ono, Suzaku
- NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: 12 Storeys
- Best Film, Special Achievement Award: Beansprouts and Salted Fish
- Best Director: Norman on the Air
- Special Jury Prize: Absence
1998 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: Children of the Heaven
- Special Jury Prize: Ayneh
- Best Director: Jafar Panahi, Ayneh
- UOB Young Cinema Award: Wolves Cry Under the Moon
- Best Actor: Sunny CHAN Kam Hung, Hold You Tight
- Best Actress: Nita Fernando, Walls Within
- NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: In the Navel of the Sea
- NETPAC/FIPRESCI Special Mention: Hold You Tight
- Best Film: By the Dawn's Early Rise
- Best Director: Jack Neo, Replacement Killers
1999 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: The Hole
- Special Jury Prize: Connection by Fate
- Special Mention: The Adopted Son,
- Best Director: Tsai Ming-Liang, The Hole)
- Best Screenplay: Ikinai
- Best Actor: Joe Abeywickrama, Pura Handa Kaluwara
- Best Actress: Yang Kwei-Mei, The Hole
- NETPAC-FIPRESCI Awards: Connection by Fate
- NETPAC-FIPRESCI Special Mention: Beshkempir
- NETPAC-FIPRESCI Special Mention: The Power of Kangwon Province
- SFC Young Cinema Award: Beshkempir
- Best Film: Datura
- Best Director: Tay Hui Ngi, Pariah's Diary
- Special Jury Prize: TMIUS
- Special Achievement Award: Another Guy
- Special Mention: Doh laai tin sai
- Special Mention: Please Use Stairs
2000 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asia Feature: Darkness And Light
- Special Jury Prize: Split Wide Open
- Best Director: Zhang Yuan, Seventeen Years
- SFC Young Cinema Award: Eating Air
- Best Actor: Rahul Bose, Split Wide Open
- Best Actress: Liu Lin and Li Bingbing, Seventeen Years
- Best Screenplay: Aos Gitai & Eliette Abecassis, Kadosh
- NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: Darkness and Light
- NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: So Close to Paradise
- Best Film: Sons
- Special Jury Prize: Wait
- Special Achievement Award: Sons
2001 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: Eureka
- Special Jury Prize: Clouds of May
- SFC Young Cinema Award: Platform
- SFC Young Cinema Award: This is My Moon
- Best Director: Im Kwon-taek, Chunhyang
- Best Actor: Ibrahim Kadir, A Poet
- Best Actress: Nguyen Lan Huoung, The House of Guavas, Vietnam
- NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: A Poet, by Garin Nugroho, Indonesia
- NETPAC/FIPRESCI Special mention: This is My Moon
No Best Film or Best Director winners
- Special Achievement Award: eAHLONG.COM
2002 Silver Screen Award
- Best Asian Feature: Batang West Side
- Special Jury Prize: Seafood
- Young Cinema Award: Eliana, Eliana
- Best Director: Away From Home
- Best Actor: Jia Hongsheng, Quitting
- Best Actress: Dian Sastrowardoyo, Whispering Sands
- NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: Eliana, Eliana
- NETPAC/FIPRESCI Special Mention: I-San Special
- Best Film: The Call Home
- Special Jury Prize: Eve of Adha
- Best Director: The Secret Heaven
- Special Achievement Award: 15
- Critics Prize: Lost
- Audience Prize: In Search of Afghanistan
2003 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: The Best of Times
- Special Jury Prize: Flying With One Wing
- Special Mention: Unknown Pleasures
- Best Director: Angel On The Right
- Best Actor: Wing Fan, The Best of Times
- Best Actress: Anoma Janadari, Flying With One Wing
- Young Cinema Award: Blissfully Yours
- NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: 15 - The Movie
No awards were given for Best Film, Director and Special Jury Prize
- Special Achievement Award: Autograph Book
2004 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: Uzak
- Special Jury Prize: Vibrator
- Best Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Uzak
- Young Cinema Award: Panj é asr
- Best Actor: Mehmet Emin Toprak, Uzak
- Best Actress: Terashima Shinobu, Vibrator
- NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: August Sun
No Award for Best Film
- Best Director: Students of CHIJ under Mr Tan Wil-Kie, Conflict and Crisis
- Special Jury Prize & Special Achievement Award: Innocent
2005 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: Underexposure
- Special Jury Prize: Tropical Malady
- Best Director: Lee Yoon-ki, This Charming Girl
- Young Cinema Award: Green Hat
- Best Actor: Liao Fan & Li Congxi, The Green Hat'
- Best Actress: Kim Ji-soo, This Charming Girl
- Best Actress: Ho Phuong Dung, A Time Far Past
- NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: Stray Dogs
- Best Film: A Family Portrait
- Best Director: Gavin Lim, Subtitle
- Special Jury Prize: Elephant: OK
- Special Achievement Award: A Family Portrait''
2006 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: It's Only Talk '
- Best Director: Kelvin Tong '
- Special Jury Prize: Gie '
- Best Actor: Elijah Castillo '
- Best Actress: Hanan Tork '
- NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: Todo todo teros '
- NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: Taking Father Home
- Best Film: Quietly
- Best Director: Kam Leong Huat. Di
- Special Jury Prize: 10 Minutes Later
- Special Achievement Award: Where Is Singapore?
2007 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: Opera Jawa
- Best Director: Shawkat Amin Korki
- Special Jury Prize: Ying Liang
- Best Actor: Carlos Chahine
- Best Actress: Han Hyo-joo
- NETPAC Award: Crossing the Dust
- NETPAC Award: Like a Virgin
- Best Film: Conversations
- Best Director: Fonzi
- Special Jury Prize: Katong Fugue
- Special Achievement Award: Tan Wei Keong, White
2008 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: Slingshot
- Special Jury Prize: Out of Coverage
- Best Director: Brillante Mendoza
- Best Performance: Inessa Kislova
- NETPAC Award: Slingshot,
- Best Film: Keluar Baris
- Special Jury Prize: Wet Seasons
- Best Director: Boo Junfeng, Keluar Baris
- Special Achievement Award: My Home, My Heaven
- Best Cinematography: Sharon Loh, Keluar Baris
- Best Performance: Magdalene Tan, Silent Girls
2009 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Asian Feature: Laila’s Birthday
- Best Director: Rasoul Sadr Ameli, Every Night, Loneliness
- Best Performance: Yang Ik-june, Breathless
- Best Cinematography: Zhang Yi, Jalainur
- NETPAC Award - Critic's Prize: Jalainur
- Special Mention: Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly
- Best Film: Rule #1
- Best Director: Royston Tan, 12 Lotus
- Best Screenplay: Sherman Ong, Hashi
- Best Performance: Mark Lee, Money No Enough 2
- Best Cinematography: Roszali Samad, Brian Gothong Tan, Sharon Loh, Jaye Neo, Cain Chui, Andrew Mark Sobrielo, Chris Yeo and Adrian Lo, Lucky 7
- Best Film: Swimming Lesson
- Best Director: Kat Goh, Swimming Lesson
- Best Performance: Cheong Soon Foon, Madam Chan
- Best Cinematography: Simon Walsh and David Shiyang Liu, 5 Films in an Anthology of A Film A Month
- Special Mention: Hush Baby
2010 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Film: Sex Volunteer, Cho Kyeong-Duk
- Best Director: Cho Kyeong-Duk, Sex Volunteer
- Best Cinematography: I Saw the Sun , Mahsun Kirmizigul
- Best Performance: Cast of I Saw the Sun , Mahsun Kirmizigul
- NETPAC Critics Award: The Dreamer , Riri Riza
- Best Film: Promises in December, Elgin Ho
- Best Director: Elgin Ho, Promises in December
- Best Cinematography: Mu Dan, Lincoln Chia
- Best Performance: Li Xie, Mu Dan
- Special Mention: Life With Uhmu, Tanya Lai
2011 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Film: Buddha Mountain, Yu Li
- Best Director: Heiward Mak,
- Best Cinematography: Kim Young-Pil, Rolling Home with a Bull
- People's Choice Award: Red Light Revolution, Sam Voutas
- Best Film: Hentak Kaki, James Khoo
- Best Director: Kenneth Lee, Band of Mischief
- Best Cinematography: Blue Tide by Luo Min
- Best Performance: Marc Gabriel Loh, First Breath After Coma
- Special Mention: Window of Dreams, Nooraini Shah Sikkander
- Special Achievement: Echoing Love , Edmund Chen
2014 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Film: Court, Chaitanya Tamhane
- Special Mention: Alive, Park Jung-bum
- Best Director: Chaitanya Tamhane, Court
- Best Performance: Sekar Sari, Siti
- Best Southeast Asian Short Film: Dahdi , Kirsten Tan
- Best Singapore Short Film: Not Working Today, Shijie Tan
- Best Director: Aditya Ahmad, On Stopping the Rain
- Special Mention: Vanishing Horizon of the Sea, Chulayarnnon Siriphol
- Im Kwon-taek
2015 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Film: The Fourth Direction, Gurvinder Singh
- Special Mention: Tikkun, Avishai Sivan
- Best Director: Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Happy Hour
- Best Performance: Taha Tegin Özdemir, Yakup Özgür Kurtaal, Ömer Uluç for Snow Pirates
- Best Southeast Asian Short Film: The Fox Exploits the Tiger's Might, Lucky Kuswandi
- Best Singapore Short Film: My Father After Dinner, Gladys Ng
- Best Director: Lucky Kuswandi, The Fox Exploits the Tiger's Might
- Special Mention: Ferris Wheel, Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
- Youth Jury Prize: Three Wheels, Kavich Neang
- Most Promising Project: A-joom-ma, He Shuming
- Sailing a Sinking Sea, Olivia Wyatt
Cinema Legend Award:
- Michelle Yeoh
2016 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Film: White Sun, Deepak Rauniyar
- Special Mention: Leftovers, Wicaksono Wisnu Legowo
- Best Director: Abdullah Mohammad Saad, Live From Dhaka
- Best Performance: Mostafa Monwar for Live From Dhaka
- Best Southeast Asian Short Film: In The Year of Monkey, Wregas Bhanuteja
- Best Singapore Short Film: Anchorage Prohibited, Chiang Wei Liang
- Best Director: Liao Jiekai, The Mist
- Special Mention: On The Origin of Fear, Bayu Prihantoro Filemon
- Youth Jury Prize: Still, P.R. Patindol
- Most Promising Project: Taste, Dong Phuong Thao
- Special Mention: Rahula, Puangsoi Aksornsawang
- Absent Without Leave, Lau Kek-huat
- Fruit Chan
- Simon Yam
2017 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Film: Disappearance, Ali Asgari
- Best Director: Anucha Boonyawatana, '
- Best Performance: Sadaf Asgari, Disappearance
- Special Mention: Scaffolding, Matan Yair
- Call Me by Your Name, Luca Guadagnino
Honorary Award:
Inspiring woman in film award:'''
- Ana Urushadze
2018 Silver Screen Awards
- Best Film: A Land Imagined, Yeo Siew Hua
- Best Director: Pham Thu Hang, The Future Cries Beneath Our Soil
- Best Performance: Manoranjoan Das, Bulbul Can Sing
- Special Mention: Dayan, Behrouz Nooranipour
- Best Southeast Asian Short Film: A Million Years, Danech San
- Best Singapore Short Film: Luzon, Chiang Wei Liang
- Best Director: Aditya Ahmad, A Gift
- Special Mention: With History In A Room Filled With People With Funny Names 4, Korakrit Arunanondchai
- Youth Critic Award: Ryan Lim
- Youth Jury Prize: A Gift, Aditya Ahmad
- Most Promising Project: Never Been Kissed, Dao Thi Minh Trang
- One Cut of the Dead, Shinichiro Ueda
Honorary Award: