List of Singapore International Film Festival awards

• Best Asia Feature: Black Republic (South Korea, Park Kwang-su)
• Special Jury Prize: The Man from Island West (Taiwan, Huang Mingchuan)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: August (Eric Khoo)
• Special Jury Prize: The Cage (K. Subramanyam)

• Best Asia Feature: Life on a String (China, Chen Kaige)
• Special Jury Prize: The Ferry (Kadavu) (India, M. T. Vasudevan Nair)
• Best Director: Edward Yang, A Brighter Summer Day

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Special Jury Prize: Waves of a Distant Shore (Meng Ong)
• Best Director: Meng Ong, Waves of a Distant Shore

• Best Asian Feature: The Peach Blossom Land (Stan Lai, Taiwan)
• Special Jury Prize: Hill of no Return (Wang Tung, Taiwan)
• Best Director: Stan Lai, (The Peach Blossom Land Taiwan)
• Best Actress: Yang Kwei-mei, Hill of No Return
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: The Peach Blossom Land (Stan Lai, Taiwan)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Special Jury Prize: Ragged (Nisar & Nazir Husain)
• Best Director: Meng Ong, Buddha's Garden

• Best Asia Feature: Sopyonje (Im Kwon-taek, South Korea)
• Special Jury Prize: Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-Liang, Taiwan)
• Special Jury Prize: Beijing Bastards (Zhang Yuan, China)
• Special Jury mention: The Servile (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India)
• Best Director: Tian Zhuangzhuang (The Blue Kite, China)
• Best Actor: Amrish Puri (Seventh Horse of the Sun, India)
• Best Actress: Lü Liping (The Blue Kite, China)
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: The Servile (Adoor Gopalakrishnan, India)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Ethos (Dominic Christopher Pereira); Married (Chee Kong Cheah (CheeK))
• Best Director, Special Achievement Award: Pain (Eric Khoo)
• Special Jury Prize: Hurt Instinct (Nisar & Nazir Husain)
• Special Jury Prize: Eddy (Dzulkilfi Sungit, Remi Mohamed)

• Best Asian Feature: Vive l'Amour (Taiwan, Tsai Ming-Liang)
• Special Jury Prize: Postman (China, He Jianjun)
• Best Actor: Xia Yu, In the Heat of the Sun (China, Jiang Wen)
• Best Actress: Yang Kwei-Mei, Vive l'Amour
• NETPAC - FIPRESCI Award: A Borrowed Life (Taiwan, Wu Nien-jen)
• NETPAC - FIPRESCI Special Mention: Mee Pok Man (Singapore, Eric Khoo)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Special Jury Prize: I Can't Sleep Tonight (K. Rajagopal)

• Best Asian Feature: Cardiogram (Kazakhstan, Darezhan Omirbayev)
• Special Jury Prize: On the Beat (China, Ning Ying)
• Best Director: Edward Yang, Mahjong (Taiwan)
• Best Actor: Bishnu Kharghoria, It's a Long Way to the Sea (Xagoroloi Bohudoor) (India, Jahnu Barua)
• Special Achievement Award: Good Men, Good Women (Taiwan, Hou Hsiao-hsien)
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: Good Men, Good Women
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Special Mention: It's a Long Way to the Sea

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: A Moveable Feast (Sandi Tan)
• Best Director: Lim Suat Yen, Sense of Home
• Special Jury Prize: The Glare (K. Rajagopal)
• Special Achievement Award: Sense of Home (Lim Suat Yen)

• Best Asian Feature: Gabbeh (Iran, Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
• Special Jury Prize: The River (Taiwan, Tsai Ming-liang)
• Best Director: Wu Tianming, The King of Masks (China)
• Best Actor: Miao Tien, The River
• Best Actress: Machiko Ono, Suzaku (Japan, Naomi Kawase)
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: 12 Storeys (Singapore, Eric Khoo)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film, Special Achievement Award: Beansprouts and Salted Fish (Chee Kong Cheah (CheeK))
• Best Director: Norman on the Air (Wee Li Lin)
• Special Jury Prize: Absence (K. Rajagopal)

• Best Asian Feature: Children of the Heaven (Iran, Majid Majidi)
• Special Jury Prize: Ayneh (The Mirror) (Iran, Jafar Panahi)
• Best Director: Jafar Panahi, Ayneh (The Mirror)
• UOB Young Cinema Award: Wolves Cry Under the Moon (Taiwan, Ho Ping)
• Best Actor: Sunny CHAN Kam Hung, Hold You Tight (Hong Kong, Stanley Kwan)
• Best Actress: Nita Fernando, Walls Within (Sri Lanka)
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: In the Navel of the Sea (The Philippines, Marilou Diaz-Abaya)
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Special Mention: Hold You Tight (Stanley Kwan)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: By the Dawn's Early Rise (Ong Lay Jinn)
• Best Director: Jack Neo, Replacement Killers

• Best Asian Feature: The Hole (Taiwan, Tsai Ming-Liang)
• Special Jury Prize: Connection by Fate (Taiwan, Wan Jen)
• Special Mention: The Adopted Son (Beshkempir), (Kyrgyzstan/France, Aktan Abdykalykov)
• Best Director: Tsai Ming-Liang, The Hole)
• Best Screenplay: Ikinai (Japan, Minoru Iizuka)
• Best Actor: Joe Abeywickrama, Pura Handa Kaluwara (Sri Lanka, Prasanna Vithanage)
• Best Actress: Yang Kwei-Mei, The Hole
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Awards: Connection by Fate (Wan Jen)
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Special Mention: Beshkempir (Aktan Abdykalykov)
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Special Mention: The Power of Kangwon Province (South Korea, Hong Sang-soo)
• SFC Young Cinema Award: Beshkempir (Aktan Abdykalykov)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Datura (Abdul Nizam)
• Best Director: Tay Hui Ngi, Pariah's Diary
• Special Jury Prize: TMIUS (Shermeen Ng)
• Special Achievement Award: Another Guy (Wee Li Lin)
• Special Mention: Doh laai tin sai (Edwin Yeo)
• Special Mention: Please Use Stairs (Victric Thng Hui Leong)

• Best Asia Feature: Darkness And Light (Taiwan, Chang Tso-chi)
• Special Jury Prize: Split Wide Open (India, Dev Benegal)
• Best Director: Zhang Yuan, Seventeen Years (China)
• SFC Young Cinema Award: Eating Air (Singapore, Jasmine Ng & Kelvin Tong)
• Best Actor: Rahul Bose, Split Wide Open
• Best Actress: Liu Lin and Li Bingbing, Seventeen Years
• Best Screenplay: Aos Gitai & Eliette Abecassis, Kadosh (Sacred) (Israel, Aos Gitai)
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: Darkness and Light
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: So Close to Paradise (China, Wang Xiaoshuai)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Sons (Royston Tan Tsze Kiam)
• Special Jury Prize: Wait (Kwong Chee Guan Boi)
• Special Achievement Award: Sons

• Best Asian Feature: Eureka (Japan, Shinji Aoyama)
• Special Jury Prize: Clouds of May (Turkey, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
• SFC Young Cinema Award: Platform (China, Jia Zhangke)
• SFC Young Cinema Award: This is My Moon (Sri Lanka, Asoka Handagama)
• Best Director: Im Kwon-taek, Chunhyang (South Korea)
• Best Actor: Ibrahim Kadir, A Poet (Indonesia)
• 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

Singapore Short Film Category: No Best Film or Best Director winners

• Special Achievement Award: eAHLONG.COM (Colin Goh)

• Best Asian Feature: Batang West Side (The Philippines, Lav Diaz)
• Special Jury Prize: Seafood (China/Hong Kong, Zhu Wen)
• Young Cinema Award: Eliana, Eliana (Indonesia, Riri Riza)
• Best Director: Away From Home (Turkey, Semih Kaplanoglu)
• Best Actor: Jia Hongsheng, Quitting (China, Zhang Yang)
• Best Actress: Dian Sastrowardoyo, Whispering Sands (Indonesia, Nan Achnas)
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: Eliana, Eliana (Riri Riza)
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Special Mention: I-San Special (Thailand, Mingmongkol Sonakul)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: The Call Home (Han Yew Kwang)
• Special Jury Prize: Eve of Adha (Leonard Yip)
• Best Director: The Secret Heaven (Sun Koh Boon Luang)
• Special Achievement Award: 15 (Royston Tan)

Asian Digital Film Awards:

• Critics Prize: Lost (Malaysia, Amir Muhammad)
• Audience Prize: In Search of Afghanistan (Singapore, Melvinder Kanth, Ismail bin Ishak)

• Best Asian Feature: The Best of Times (Taiwan, Chang Tso-chi)
• Special Jury Prize: Flying With One Wing (Sri Lanka, Asoka Handagama)
• Special Mention: Unknown Pleasures (China-Japan-France, Jia Zhangke)
• Best Director: Angel On The Right (Tajikistan, Djamshed Usmonov)
• Best Actor: Wing Fan, The Best of Times
• Best Actress: Anoma Janadari, Flying With One Wing (Sri Lanka, Asoka Handagama)
• Young Cinema Award: Blissfully Yours (Thailand, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: 15 - The Movie (Singapore, Royston Tan)

Singapore Short Film Category: No awards were given for Best Film, Director and Special Jury Prize

• Special Achievement Award: Autograph Book (Wee Li Lin)

• Best Asian Feature: Uzak (Turkey, Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
• Special Jury Prize: Vibrator (Japan, Ryūichi Hiroki)
• Best Director: Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Uzak
• Young Cinema Award: Panj é asr (At Five In The Afternoon) (Iran, Samira Makhmalbaf)
• Best Actor: Mehmet Emin Toprak, Uzak
• Best Actress: Terashima Shinobu, Vibrator
• NETPAC-FIPRESCI Award: August Sun (Sri Lanka, Prasanna Vithanage)

Singapore Short Film Category: No Award for Best Film

• Best Director: Students of CHIJ (Toa Payoh) under Mr Tan Wil-Kie, Conflict and Crisis
• Special Jury Prize & Special Achievement Award: Innocent (Gek Li San, Ho Choon Hiong)

• Best Asian Feature: Underexposure (Iraq/Germany, Oday Rasheed)
• Special Jury Prize: Tropical Malady (Thailand/France/Italy, Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
• Best Director: Lee Yoon-ki, This Charming Girl (South Korea)
• Young Cinema Award: Green Hat (Hong Kong, Liu Fendou)
• Best Actor: (tie) Liao Fan & Li Congxi, The Green Hat'
• Best Actress: Kim Ji-soo, This Charming Girl
• Best Actress: Ho Phuong Dung, A Time Far Past (Vietnam)
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: Stray Dogs (Iran, Marziyeh Meshkini)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: A Family Portrait (Boo Junfeng)
• Best Director: Gavin Lim, Subtitle
• Special Jury Prize: Elephant: OK (Srinivas Bhakta)
• Special Achievement Award: A Family Portrait

• Best Asian Feature: It's Only Talk (Ryūichi Hiroki, Japan)
• Best Director: Kelvin Tong (Love Story, Singapore)
• Special Jury Prize: Gie (Riri Riza, Indonesia)
• Best Actor: Elijah Castillo (Pepot Superstar, Philippines)
• Best Actress: Hanan Tork (Kiss Me Not on the Eyes, Lebanon)
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: Todo todo teros (John Torres, Philippines)
• NETPAC/FIPRESCI Award: Taking Father Home (Ying Liang, China)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Quietly (Oon Jit Fong)
• Best Director: Kam Leong Huat. Di (Little Brother)
• Special Jury Prize: 10 Minutes Later (Kirsten Tan)
• Special Achievement Award: Where Is Singapore? (Kelly Ling)

• Best Asian Feature: Opera Jawa (Garin Nugroho, Indonesia)
• Best Director: Shawkat Amin Korki (Crossing the Dust, Iraq)
• Special Jury Prize: Ying Liang (The Other Half, China)
• Best Actor: Carlos Chahine (The Last Man, Lebanon)
• Best Actress: Han Hyo-joo (Ad-lib Night, South Korea)
• NETPAC Award: Crossing the Dust (Shawkat Amin Korki, Iraq)
• NETPAC Award: Like a Virgin (Lee Hae-young, Lee Hae-jun, South Korea)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Conversations (Tia Quah)
• Best Director: Fonzi (Kirsten Tan)
• Special Jury Prize: Katong Fugue (Boo Junfeng)
• Special Achievement Award: Tan Wei Keong, White

• Best Asian Feature: Slingshot (Brillante Mendoza, the Philippines)
• Special Jury Prize: Out of Coverage (Abellatif Abdelhamid, Syria)
• Best Director: Brillante Mendoza (Slinghshot, the Philippines)
• Best Performance: Inessa Kislova (Swift, dir: Abai Kulbai, Kazakhstan)
• NETPAC Award: Slingshot, (Brillante Mendoza, the Philippines)

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Keluar Baris (Boo Junfeng)
• Special Jury Prize: Wet Seasons (Michael Tay)
• Best Director: Boo Junfeng, Keluar Baris
• Special Achievement Award: My Home, My Heaven (Muhammad Eysham Ali)
• Best Cinematography: Sharon Loh, Keluar Baris
• Best Performance: Magdalene Tan, Silent Girls

• Best Asian Feature: Laila’s Birthday (Palestine)
• Best Director: Rasoul Sadr Ameli, Every Night, Loneliness (Iran)
• Best Performance: Yang Ik-june, Breathless (South Korea)
• Best Cinematography: Zhang Yi, Jalainur (China)
• NETPAC Award - Critic's Prize: Jalainur (Zhao Ye, China)
• Special Mention: Blind Pig Who Wants to Fly (Edwin, Indonesia)

Singapore Film Awards:

• Best Film: Rule #1 (Kelvin Tong)
• 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

Singapore Short Film Category:

• Best Film: Swimming Lesson (Kat Goh)
• 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 (Tan Wei Keong)

Asian Feature Film Category:

• Best Film: Sex Volunteer, Cho Kyeong-Duk
• Best Director: Cho Kyeong-Duk, Sex Volunteer
• Best Cinematography: I Saw the Sun (Gunesi Gordum), Mahsun Kirmizigul
• Best Performance: Cast of I Saw the Sun (Gunesi Gordum), Mahsun Kirmizigul
• NETPAC Critics Award: The Dreamer (Sang Pemimpi), Riri Riza

Singapore Short Film Category:

• 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

Asian Feature Film Category:

• Best Film: Buddha Mountain, Yu Li
• Best Director: Heiward Mak, (bestide(s,) happiness)
• Best Cinematography: Kim Young-Pil, Rolling Home with a Bull
• People's Choice Award: Red Light Revolution, Sam Voutas

Singapore Short Film Category:

• 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 (爱情六重奏), Edmund Chen

Asian Feature Film Category:

• Best Film: Court, Chaitanya Tamhane
• Special Mention: Alive, Park Jung-bum
• Best Director: Chaitanya Tamhane, Court
• Best Performance: Sekar Sari, Siti

Southeast Asian Short Film Category:

• Best Southeast Asian Short Film: Dahdi (Granny), 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

Honorary Award:

• Im Kwon-taek

Asian Feature Film Category:

• 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

Southeast Asian Short Film Category:

• 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

Southeast Asian Film Lab:

• Most Promising Project: A-joom-ma, He Shuming

Audience Choice Award:

• Sailing a Sinking Sea, Olivia Wyatt

Honorary Award:

• Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Cinema Legend Award:

• Michelle Yeoh

Asian Feature Film Category:

• 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

Southeast Asian Short Film Category:

• 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

Southeast Asian Film Lab:

• Most Promising Project: Taste, Dong Phuong Thao
• Special Mention: Rahula, Puangsoi Aksornsawang

Audience Choice Award:

• Absent Without Leave, Lau Kek-huat

Honorary Award:

• Fruit Chan

Cinema Legend Award:

• Simon Yam

Asian Feature Film Category:

• Best Film: Disappearance, Ali Asgari
• Best Director: Anucha Boonyawatana, Malila: The Farewell Flower
• Best Performance: Sadaf Asgari, Disappearance
• Special Mention: Scaffolding, Matan Yair

Southeast Asian Short Film Category:

• Best Southeast Asian Short Film: Jodilerks Dela Cruz, Employee of the Month, Carlo Francisco Manatad
• Best Singapore Short Film: Between Us Two, Tan Wei Keong
• Best Director: Sorayos Prapapan, Death of the Sound Man
• Special Mention: The Malediction, Makbul Mubarak

Youth Jury & Critics Programme:

• Youth Jury Prize: Death of the Sound Man, Sorayos Prapapan
• Young Critic Award: Joshua Ng Jun Hao, Nanyang Technological University

Southeast Asian Film Lab:

• Most Promising Project: A Useful Ghost, Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke

Audience Choice Award:

• Call Me by Your Name, Luca Guadagnino

Cinema Legend Award:

• Koji Yakusho

Honorary Award:

• Garin Nugruho

Inspiring woman in film award:

• Ana Urushadze

Asian Feature Film Category:

• 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

Southeast Asian Short Film Category:

• 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 Jury & Critics Programme:

• Youth Critic Award: Ryan Lim (Nanyang Technological University)
• Youth Jury Prize: A Gift, Aditya Ahmad

Southeast Asian Film Lab:

• Most Promising Project: Never Been Kissed, Dao Thi Minh Trang

Audience Choice Award:

• One Cut of the Dead, Shinichiro Ueda

Cinema Legend Award:

• Joan Chen

Honorary Award:

• Rithy Panh