5th Asian Film Awards

The 5th Asian Film Awards was given in a ceremony on 21 March 2011 as part of the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Best Film

 * Winner: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand)
 * Aftershock (China)
 * Confessions (Japan)
 * Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
 * Peepli Live (India)
 * Poetry (South Korea)

Best Director

 * Winner: Lee Chang-dong, Poetry (South Korea)
 * Feng Xiaogang, Aftershock (China)
 * Jiang Wen, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
 * Takashi Miike, 13 Assassins (Japan)
 * Na Hong-jin, The Yellow Sea (South Korea)
 * Tetsuya Nakashima, Confessions (Japan)

Best Actor

 * Winner: Ha Jung-woo, The Yellow Sea (South Korea)
 * Chow Yun-fat, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
 * Ge You, Sacrifice (China/Hong Kong)
 * Ethan Juan, Monga (Taiwan)
 * Kōji Yakusho, 13 Assassins (Japan)

Best Actress

 * Winner: Xu Fan, Aftershock (China)
 * Jeon Do-yeon, The Housemaid (South Korea)
 * Rinko Kikuchi, Norwegian Wood (Japan)
 * Takako Matsu, Confessions (Japan)
 * Michelle Yeoh, Reign of Assassins (Malaysia/China/Hong Kong/Thailand)

Best Newcomer

 * Winner: Mark Chao, Monga (Taiwan)
 * Aarif Lee, Echoes of the Rainbow (Hong Kong)
 * Omkar Das Manikpuri, Peepli Live (India)
 * T.O.P, 71: Into the Fire (South Korea)
 * Zhou Dongyu, Under the Hawthorn Tree (China)

Best Supporting Actor

 * Winner: Sammo Hung, Ip Man 2 (Hong Kong)
 * Huang Xiaoming, Sacrifice (China/Hong Kong)
 * Masaki Okada, Confessions (Japan)
 * Ryoo Seung-bum, The Unjust (South Korea)
 * Yoo Hae-jin, Moss (South Korea)

Best Supporting Actress

 * Winner: Youn Yuh-jung, The Housemaid (South Korea)
 * Yū Aoi, Ototo (Japan)
 * Yoshino Kimura, Confessions (Japan)
 * Carina Lau, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
 * Shanty Paredes, Madame X (Indonesia)

Best Screenwriter

 * Winner: Lee Chang-dong, Poetry (South Korea)
 * Jiang Wen and Jiang Wen, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
 * Pang Ho-cheung and Heiward Mak, Love in a Puff (film) (Hong Kong)
 * Su Chao-Pin, Reign of Assassins (China/Hong Kong/Thailand)
 * Park Hoon-Jung, The Unjust (South Korea)

Best Cinematographer

 * Winner: Mark Lee Ping Bin, Norwegian Wood) (Japan)
 * Lee Mo-gae, I Saw the Devil (South Korea)
 * Hassan Kydyraliyev, The Light Thief (Kyrgyzstan)
 * Kenny Tse Chung-to, The Stool Pigeon (Hong Kong)
 * Jake Pollock, Monga (Taiwan)

Best Production Designer

 * Winner: Hayashida Yuji, 13 Assassins (Japan)
 * James Sung-pong, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (China/Hong Kong)
 * Eros Eflin, Madame X (Indonesia)
 * Huang Mei-Ching and Chen Po-Jen, Monga (Taiwan)
 * Lee Hwo-kyoung, The Yellow Sea (South Korea)

Best Composer

 * Winner: Indian Ocean, Peepli Live (India)
 * Saito Kazuyoshi, Golden Slumbers (Japan)
 * Sandee Chan, Monga (Taiwan)
 * Peter Kam Pui-tat and Anthony Chue, Reign of Assassins (China/Hong Kong/Taiwan)
 * Jang Young-gyu and Lee Byung-hoon, The Yellow Sea (South Korea)

Best Editor

 * Winner: Nam Na-young, I Saw the Devil (South Korea)
 * Kenji Yamashita, 13 Assassins (Japan)
 * Koike Yoshiyuki, Confessions (Japan)
 * Hemanti Sarkar, Peepli Live (India)
 * Meng Peicong, Under the Hawthorn Tree (film) (China)

Best Visual Effects

 * Winner: Phil Jones and Jiang Yan-ming, Aftershock (China)
 * Kim Tae-hun and Ryu Hee-jung, 71: Into the Fire (South Korea)
 * Phil Jones, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (China/Hong Kong)
 * Yamazaki Takashi, Space Battleship Yamato (Japan)
 * Park Jung-ryul, The Man from Nowhere (South Korea)

Best Costume Designer

 * Winner: William Chang Suk Ping, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
 * Sawataishi Kazuhiro, 13 Assassins (Japan)
 * Bruce Yu Ka-on, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (China/Hong Kong)
 * Yen-Khe Luguern, Norwegian Wood (Japan)
 * Choi Se-yeon, The Housemaid (South Korea)

Special Awards

 * Lifetime Achievement Award: Raymond Chow (Hong Kong)
 * Asian Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asian Cinema: Kim Dong-ho (South Korea)
 * The Asian Film Awards for 2010’s Top Grossing Asian Film: Feng Xiaogang, Aftershock (China)
 * Award for the Promotion of Asian CinemaBack: Fortissimo Films

People's Choice Awards

 * Favorite Actor: Chow Yun-fat, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
 * Favorite Actress: Jeon Do-yeon, The Housemaid (South Korea)