3rd Asia Pacific Screen Awards

The 3rd Asia Pacific Screen Awards were held in 2009.

Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and in bold.

Best Feature Film

 * Samson & Delilah
 * The Time that Remains
 * About Elly
 * City of Life and Death
 * Forever Enthralled

Best Youth Feature Film

 * A Brand New Life
 * Tahaan: A Boy with a Granade
 * The Strength of Water
 * Pesantren: 3 Wishes 3 Loves
 * Mommo the Bogeyman

Best Animated Feature Film

 * Mary and Max
 * The Tale of Soldier Fedot, The Daring Fellow
 * Summer Wars
 * The Sky Crawlers
 * First Squad: The Moment of Truth

Best Documentary Feature Film

 * Defamation
 * Survive, in the heart of the Khmer Rouge madness
 * Mental
 * Gandhi's Children
 * Citizen Juling

Achievement in Cinematography

 * Cao Yu (City of Life and Death)
 * Alexei Arsentiev (Wolfy)
 * Alisher Khamidhodjaev and Maxim Drozdov (Paper Soldier)
 * Ali Mohammad Ghasemi (A Light in the Fog)
 * Uruphong Raksasad (Agrarian Utopia)

Achievement in Directing

 * Lu Chuan (City of Life and Death)
 * Sion Sono (Love Exposure)
 * Anurag Kashyap (Dev.D)
 * Vimukthi Jayasundara (Between Two Worlds)
 * Asghar Farhadi (About Elly)

Best Screenplay

 * Asghar Farhadi (About Elly)
 * Yogesh Vinayak Joshi and Upendra Sidhaye (Mumbai My Life)
 * Bong Joon-ho and Park Eun-kyo (Mother)
 * Baek Seung-Bin (Members of the Funeral)
 * Kundo Koyama (Departures)

Best Performance by an Actress

 * Kim Hye-ja (Mother)
 * Zhou Xun (The Equation of Love and Death)
 * Yana Troyanova (Wolfy)
 * Malani Fonseka (Flowers of the Sky)
 * Golshifteh Farahani (About Elly)

Best Performance by an Actor

 * Masahiro Motoki (Departures)
 * Ge You (If You Are the One)
 * Naseeruddin Shah (A Wednesday!)
 * Mohamed Bakri (Laila's Birthday)
 * Yang Ik-june (Breathless)

FIAPF Award

 * Isao Matsuoka

UNESCO Award

 * Uruphong Raksasad (Agrarian Utopia)

Jury Grand Prize

 * The Time That Remains
 * About Elly