18th Asian Film Awards

18th Asian Film Awards
18th Asian Film Awards
	Teaser poster
Awarded for	Excellence in Asian cinema
Awarded by	Hong Kong International Film Festival; Busan International Film Festival; Tokyo International Film Festival;
Presented by	The Asian Film Awards Academy (AFAA)
Announced on	Nominations: January 10, 2025
Presented on	March 16, 2025
Site	Xiqu Centre, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
Official website	Asian Film Awards
Highlights
Most nominations	11 – Exhuma
Television coverage
Network	YouTube
	← 17th; Asian Film Awards; 19th →;

The 18th Asian Film Awards will be held on March 16, 2025 at Xiqu Centre in the West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong. The nominations were announced on January 10, 2025.^[1]^[2] The 18th edition feature a selection of 30 outstanding films from 25 countries and regions, competing across 16 awards. The South Korean film Exhuma with 11 nominations is the most-nominated film this year.^[3] Actors Dean Fujioka, Aokbab Chutimon, Austin Lin, Lo Chun-yip, and Masaki Okada were appointed, with Fujioka serving as the ambassador and the others as youth ambassadors.^[4]

Jury

Sammo Hung as Jury President – Hong Kong actor, martial artist, film producer and director.^[5]

Awards and nominations

Complete list of nominees:^[6]^[7]

Best Film All We Imagine as Light (India / France / Netherlands / Luxembourg) Black Dog (China) Exhuma (South Korea) Teki Cometh (Japan) Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)	Best Director Payal Kapadia – All We Imagine as Light Guan Hu – Black Dog Jang Jae-hyun – Exhuma Rithy Panh – Meeting with Pol Pot Daihachi Yoshida – Teki Cometh
Best Actor Eddie Peng – Black Dog Choi Min-sik – Exhuma Sean Lau – Papa Kyōzō Nagatsuka – Teki Cometh Michael Hui – The Last Dance	Best Actress Kani Kusruti – All We Imagine as Light Sylvia Chang – Daughter's Daughter Yuumi Kawai – Desert of Namibia Kim Go-eun – Exhuma Shahana Goswami – Santosh
Best Supporting Actor Ken Mitsuishi – All the Long Nights Sosuke Ikematsu – My Sunshine Lee Kang-sheng – Stranger Eyes Chu Pak Hong – The Last Dance / Philip Ng – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In	Best Supporting Actress Maggie Li Lin Lin – All Shall Be Well Divya Prabha – All We Imagine as Light Lim Ji-yeon – Revolver Kumi Takiuchi – Teki Cometh Yang Kuei-mei – Yen and Ai-Lee
Best New Director Yoko Yamanaka – Desert of Namibia / Neo Sora – Happyend Dong Zijian – My Friend An Delie / Sandhya Suri – Santosh Minh Quý Trương – Viet and Nam	Best Newcomer Lee Do-hyun – Exhuma Hayato Kurihara – Happyend Putthipong Assaratanakul – How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies Dylan So – Papa Dao Duy Bao Dinh – Viet and Nam
Best Screenplay All the Long Nights – Kiyoto Wada and Sho Miyake (Japan) All We Imagine as Light – Payal Kapadia (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg) Exhuma – Jang Jae-hyun (South Korea) Meeting with Pol Pot – Rithy Panh and Pierre-Erwan Guillaume (Cambodia, France, Taiwan, Qatar, Turkey) The Seed of the Sacred Fig – Mohammad Rasoulof (Iran, Germany, France)	Best Editing All We Imagine as Light – Clément Pinteaux (India, France, Netherlands, Luxembourg) Meeting with Pol Pot – Rithy Panh and Matthieu Laclau (Cambodia, France, Taiwan, Qatar, Turkey) My Friend An Delie – William Chang Suk-ping (China) Papa – Jojo Shek (Hong Kong) Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In – Cheung Ka-fai (Hong Kong)
Best Cinematography Harbin – Hong Kyung-pyo (South Korea) My Friend An Delie – Lu Songye (China) Shambhala – Aziz Zhambakiyiv (Nepal, France, Norway, Hong Kong, China, Turkey, Taiwan, United States, Qatar) Teki Cometh – Hidetoshi Shinomiya (Japan) Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In – Cheng Siu-keung (Hong Kong)	Best Original Music All the Long Nights – Hi'Spec (Japan) The Box Man – Michiaki Katsumoto (Japan) Exhuma – Kim Tae-seong (South Korea) The Last Dance – Chu Wan Pin (Hong Kong) Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In – Kenji Kawai (Hong Kong)
Best Costume Design Yang Donglin – A Tapestry of a Legendary Land (Mainland China) Choi Yoon-sun – Exhuma (South Korea) Dorjee Dradhul Gurung – Shambhala (Nepal, Hong Kong, France, Norway, Qatar, Taiwan, Türkiye, United States) Miyamoto Mari – Teki Cometh (Japan) Bruce Yu, Karen Yip – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In (Hong Kong)	Best Production Design Huo Tingxiao, Li Chang – Black Dog Pham Phong Lan – Don't Cry, Butterfly Seo Sung-kyung, – Exhuma Hayashida Yuji – The Box Man Kenneth Mak, Chau Sai Hung Ambrose, – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
Best Visual Effects Danny Yin – Black Dog Sato Fumiro, Kobari Yasuhiro – Black Ox Tomi Kuo, Chiu Chun-Yi – Dead Talents Society Kim Shin-chul, Daniel Son – Exhuma Lin Chun Yue Jules, Ma Siu Fu, Garrett K Lam, Yee Kwok Leung – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In	Best Sound Zurab Kurmanbayev – Cadet Kim Byung-in – Exhuma Tu Duu-chih, Tu Tse-Kang – Stranger Eyes Yiu Chun Hin, Cheung Man Hoi, To Burnard Davy – Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In Vincent Villa – Viet and Nam

Films with multiple nominations

Films with multiple nominations
Nominations	Film
11	Exhuma
9	Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
6	All We Imagine as Light
6	Teki Cometh
5	Black Dog
3	All the Long Nights
	The Last Dance
	Meeting with Pol Pot
	My Friend An Delie
	Papa
	Viet and Nam
2	The Box Man
	Desert of Namibia
	Santosh
	Shambhala
	Stranger Eyes

References

^ Lo, Zabrina (January 10, 2025). "Asian Film Awards 2025 nominations: Sean Lau gunning for Best Actor, South Korea's 'Exhuma' selected in 9 categories, and more". Tatler Asia. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
^ Patrick Brzeski (January 10, 2025). "Asian Film Awards: South Korea's 'Exhuma' Leads Nominations, Sammo Hung Named Jury President". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
^ Naman Ramachandran (January 9, 2025). "Sammo Hung to Head Asian Film Awards Jury as 'Exhuma,' 'Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In' Lead Nominations". Variety. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
^ Ramachandran, Naman (January 6, 2025). "Dean Fujioka, Aokbab Chutimon, Austin Lin, Lo Chun Yip, Okada Masaki Named Asian Film Awards Ambassadors – Global Bulletin". Variety. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
^ Merican, Sara (January 10, 2025). "Oscars: Korea's 'Exhuma' & Hong Kong's 'Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In' Lead Asian Film Awards Nominations; Sammo Hung Appointed As Jury President". Deadline. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
^ Choi, Jimin (January 11, 2025). "'Exhuma', 'Twilight Of The Warriors' lead Asian Film Awards nominations 2025". ScreenDaily. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
^ "18th Asian Film Awards: Winners And Nominees". Asian Film Awards Academy. January 11, 2025. Retrieved January 11, 2025.

External links

Official website

[1] Lo, Zabrina (January 10, 2025). "Asian Film Awards 2025 nominations: Sean Lau gunning for Best Actor, South Korea's 'Exhuma' selected in 9 categories, and more". Tatler Asia. Retrieved January 11, 2025.

[afa:hr-2] Patrick Brzeski (January 10, 2025). "Asian Film Awards: South Korea's 'Exhuma' Leads Nominations, Sammo Hung Named Jury President". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 11, 2025.

[afa:variety-3] Naman Ramachandran (January 9, 2025). "Sammo Hung to Head Asian Film Awards Jury as 'Exhuma,' 'Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In' Lead Nominations". Variety. Retrieved January 11, 2025.

[4] Ramachandran, Naman (January 6, 2025). "Dean Fujioka, Aokbab Chutimon, Austin Lin, Lo Chun Yip, Okada Masaki Named Asian Film Awards Ambassadors – Global Bulletin". Variety. Retrieved January 11, 2025.

[5] Merican, Sara (January 10, 2025). "Oscars: Korea's 'Exhuma' & Hong Kong's 'Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In' Lead Asian Film Awards Nominations; Sammo Hung Appointed As Jury President". Deadline. Retrieved January 11, 2025.

[nom:sd-6] Choi, Jimin (January 11, 2025). "'Exhuma', 'Twilight Of The Warriors' lead Asian Film Awards nominations 2025". ScreenDaily. Retrieved January 11, 2025.

[7] "18th Asian Film Awards: Winners And Nominees". Asian Film Awards Academy. January 11, 2025. Retrieved January 11, 2025.

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