15th Asian Film Awards

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15th Asian Film Awards
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Official title card
Awarded forExcellence in Asian cinema
Awarded by
Presented byThe Asian Film Awards Academy (AFAA)
Announced onNominations: September 9, 2021 (2021-09-09)
Presented onOctober 8, 2021 (2021-10-08)
Site Busan, South Korea
Hosted by
Official website Asian Film Awards
Highlights
Best Picture Wife of a Spy
Asian Film Excellence Award Lee Byung-hun (South Korea)
Best Direction Zhang Yimou
One Second
Best Actor Yoo Ah-in
Voice of Silence
Best Actress Yū Aoi
Wife of a Spy
Best Supporting ActorKim Hyun-bin
The Silent Forest
Best Supporting Actress Aju Makita
True Mothers
Most awards3 - Wife of a Spy
Most nominations6 - Cliff Walkers

The 15th Asian Film Awards was held on October 8, 2021, in Busan at Haeundae. Like 2020 edition it was staged with the 26th Busan International Film Festival in hybrid format that combines online and face-to-face participation. [1] The award show was hosted by actress Kim Gyu-ri and broadcaster Lee Seung-guk. [2]

Contents

In 15th edition of Asian Film Awards, 36 films from 8 Asian regions competed for 16 awards. [3] Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Wife of a Spy (2020) won the best picture award [4] at the ceremony streamed live on YouTube and Naver. [5]

Nomination committee

Jury

Awards and nominations

Complete list of nominees: [7] [8] [9] [10]

Source Awardees: [11] [12] [13]

Best Screenplay
Best Editing
Best Cinematography
Best Music
Best Production Design
Best Visual Effects
Best Sound
Excellence in Asian Cinema Award
2020 Highest Grossing Asian Film

Films with multiple nominations

The following films received multiple nominations:

NominationsFilms
6 Cliff Walkers
5 One Second
Wife of a Spy
4 The Book of Fish
Limbo
Deliver Us from Evil
3 My Missing Valentine
Sister
Space Sweepers
Voice of Silence
Yellow Cat

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References

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