13th Asian Film Awards

13th Asian Film Awards
13th Asian Film Awards
Date	March 17, 2019
Site	TVB City, Hong Kong
Highlights
Best Film	Shoplifters
Most awards	Shadow (4)
Most nominations	Burning (8)
	← 12th; Asian Film Awards; 14th →;

The 13th Asian Film Awards are the 2019 edition of the Asian Film Awards. The ceremony was held on March 17, 2019, at the TVB City in Hong Kong.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

Best Film	Best Director
Shoplifters Burning Dying to Survive Jinpa Sanju	Lee Chang-dong – Burning Pema Tseden – Jinpa Rajkumar Hirani – Sanju Hirokazu Kore-eda – Shoplifters Fruit Chan – Three Husbands
Best Actor	Best Actress
Kōji Yakusho – The Blood of Wolves Yoo Ah-in – Burning Xu Zheng – Dying to Survive Aaron Kwok – Project Gutenberg Ranbir Kapoor – Sanju	Samal Yeslyamova – Ayka Zhao Tao – Ash Is Purest White Han Ji-min – Miss Baek Sakura Ando – Shoplifters Chloe Maayan – Three Husbands
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
ZHANG Yu – Dying to Survive Kwon Hae-hyo – Hotel by the River Shinya Tsukamoto – Killing Vicky Kaushal – Sanju River Huang – Tracey	Kara Hui – Tracey Jin Seo-yeon – Believer Ding Ning – Cities of Last Things Xu Qing – Hidden Man Mayu Matsuoka – Shoplifters
Best New Director	Best Newcomer
Oliver Siu Kuen Chan – Still Human Yeo Siew Hua – A Land Imagined Rima Das – Bulbul Can Sing Phuttiphong Aroonpheng – Manta Ray Shinichirou Ueda – One Cut of the Dead Bai Xue – The Crossing	Huang Jingyu – Operation Red Sea Erika Karata – Asako I & II Jeon Jong-seo – Burning Zhang Ying Xie – Cities of Last Things HUANG Yao – The Crossing Peter Chan – Three Husbands
Best Screenplay	Best Editing
Jia Zhangke – Ash Is Purest White Oh Jung-mi, Lee Chang-dong – Burning Han Jianü, Zhong Wei, Wen Muye – Dying to Survive Felix Chong – Project Gutenberg Rajkumar Hirani, Abhijat Joshi – Sanju	Shinya Tsukamoto – Killing Choi Chi Hung, Lam Chi Hang – Operation Red Sea Curran Pang – Project Gutenberg Zhou Xiaolin – Shadow Kim Sang-bum, Kim Jae-bum – The Spy Gone North
Best Cinematography	Best Original Music
Zhao Xiaoding – Shadow Hong Kyung-pyo – Burning Songye Lu – Jinpa Nawarophaat Rungphiboonsophit – Manta Ray Pankaj Kumar – Tumbbad	Haruomi Hosono – Shoplifters Dalpalan – Believer Lim Giong, Point Hsu – Jinpa A. R. Rahman, Atul Raninga, Sanjay Wandrekar – Sanju Loudboy – Shadow
Best Costume Designer	Best Production Design
Chen Minzheng – Shadow Dong Zhongmin, Uma Wang, Shuping Zhang – Hidden Man Lim Chung Man – Project Gutenberg Kazuhiro Sawataishi – Punk Samurai Slash Down Chae Kyung-hwa – The Spy Gone North	Horace Ma – Shadow Shin Jeom-hee – Burning Liu Qing – Hidden Man Keiko Mitsumatsu – Shoplifters Rakesh Yadav, Nitin Zihani Choudhary – Tumbbad
Best Visual Effects	Best Sound
Alex Lim Hung-Fung – Project Gutenberg Srinivas Mohan – 2.0 Wang Shaoshuai, Yang Yuejuan – Hidden Man Lee In-ho, Kang Tae-gyun – Operation Red Sea Katsuro Onoue – Punk Samurai Slash Down	Yang Jiang, Zhao Nan – Shadow Resul Pookutty, Amrit Pritam – 2.0 Lee Seung-chul – Burning Masaya Kitada – Killing Nopawat Likitwong, Sarunyu Nurnsai – Operation Red Sea
Lifetime Achievement Award	2018 Highest Grossing Asian Film
Lee Chang-dong	Operation Red Sea
Excellence in Asian Cinema Award	AFA Next Generation Award
Yakusho Koji	Kim Jae-joong