Awards for 2016

Asian Film Award

Best Film

WINNER

The Assassin
NOMINEES

Mountains May Depart

Bajirao Mastani

Three Stories of Love

Mr. Six

Veteran

Best Actor

WINNER

Inside Men: Byung-hun Lee
NOMINEES

Ip Man 3: Donnie Yen

Sweet Bean: Masatoshi Nagase

Mr. Six: Xiaogang Feng

Heneral Luna: John Arcilla

Best Actress

WINNER

The Assassin: Qi Shu
NOMINEES

Mountains May Depart: Tao Zhao

Our Little Sister: Haruka Ayase

Coin Locker Girl: Hye-su Kim

Zinnia Flower: Kar Yan Lam

Best Supporting Actor

WINNER

Journey to the Shore: Tadanobu Asano
NOMINEES

Ip Man 3: Jin Zhang

Port of Call: Michael Ning

Assassination: Dal-su Oh

Thanatos, Drunk: Jen-Shuo Cheng

Best Supporting Actress

WINNER

The Assassin: Yun Zhou
NOMINEES

Gonin Saga: Anna Tsuchiya

Mojin - The Lost Legend: Cherry Ngan

The Beauty Inside: Juri Ueno

The Priests: So-dam Park

Best Director

WINNER

The Assassin: Hsiao-Hsien Hou
NOMINEES

Mountains May Depart: Zhangke Jia

Our Little Sister: Hirokazu Koreeda

Mr. Six: Hu Guan

Veteran: Seung-wan Ryoo

Best Cinematographer

WINNER

The Assassin: Ping Bin Lee
NOMINEES

Port of Call: Christopher Doyle

Gonin Saga: Yasushi Sasakibara, Yoshiaki Yamamoto

Mr. Six: Pan Luo

Assassination: Woo-hyung Kim

Best Costume Designer

WINNER

The Throne: Ji-yeon Lee, Hyun-seob Shim
NOMINEES

The Assassin: Wen-Ying Huang

Bajirao Mastani: Maxima Basu, Anju Modi

Kakekomi: Masae Miyamoto

Heneral Luna: Carlo Tabije

Best Sound

WINNER

The Assassin: Shih Yi Chu, Duu-Chih Tu, Shu-yao Wu
NOMINEES

Monster Hunt: George Yiu-Keung Lee, Kinson Tsang, Chun Hin Yiu

Bakuman.: Shinji Watanabe

The Inerasable: Toru Nishiyama

Assassination: Suk-won Kim, Joo-gang Park

Best Visual Effects

WINNER

Bajirao Mastani: Prasad Sutar
NOMINEES

Monster Hunt: Ellen Poon, Jason H. Snell, Bingbing Tang

Baahubali: The Beginning: Srinivas Mohan

Attack on Titan: Part 1: Katsuro Onoue

The Tiger: An Old Hunter's Tale: Yong-seok Cho, Jae-cheon Choi, Jeon-hyeong Lee

Best Screenwriter

WINNER

Mountains May Depart: Zhangke Jia
NOMINEES

Port of Call: Philip Yung

Guilty: Vishal Bhardwaj

Journey to the Shore: Takashi Ujita, Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Veteran: Seung-wan Ryoo

Best Newcomer

WINNER

Port of Call: Jessie Li
NOMINEES

Fly Away Solo: Vicky Kaushal

Solomon's Perjury, Solomon's Perjury 2: Ryôko Fujino

Gangnam Blues: Seol-Hyun Kim

Thanatos, Drunk: Hong-Chi Lee

Snap: Waruntorn Paonil

Best Composer

WINNER

The Assassin: Giong Lim
NOMINEES

Bajirao Mastani: Nihar Ranjan Samal

Bombay Velvet: Amit Trivedi

Journey to the Shore: Yoshihide Ôtomo

The Throne: Jun-seok Bang

Best Production Designer

WINNER

The Assassin: Wen-Ying Huang
NOMINEES

Ip Man 3: Kenneth Mak

Kakekomi: Tetsuo Harada

Inside Men: Min-su Lee

Heneral Luna: Benjamin Padero, Carlo Tabije

Best Editor

WINNER

Port of Call: William Chang, Ka-Yat Chu, Ching-Song Liao, Hoi Wong, Philip Yung
NOMINEES

Bajirao Mastani: Rajesh Pandey

Bakuman.: Yasuyuki Ohzeki

Jian Bing Man: Yiran Tu

Veteran: Jae-beom Kim, Sang-beom Kim