11th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
The 11th Asia Pacific Screen Awards were held on 23 November 2017 at the Brisbane Conventions and Exhibition Centre in Brisbane, Australia.
On 14 September 2017, three jury members were announced in Beijing by the Lord Mayor of Brisbane, Cr Graham Quirk. They are Chinese actress He Saifei, Filipino writer/director Adolfo Alix Jr and Kazakh writer, director and cinematographer Adilkhan Yerzhanov. Top Australian film editor, Jill Bilcock ASE ACE was later announced as the head of the international jury, joined by Yoshi Yatabe, the programming director of the Tokyo International Film Festival, completing the jury line-up. The international jury determined the winners of all the major APSA awards including Best Feature Film, Achievement in Directing, Achievement in Cinematography, Best Screenplay, Best Performance by an Actress and Actor. They also determined the winner of the Cultural Diversity Award, under the patronage of UNESCO.
Haifaa Al Mansour, was announced to be the chair of the Youth Animation and Documentary Jury, followed by Melanie Coombs and Steve Abbott.
Winners and nominees
Nominees of Youth, Animation, and Documentary were announced with the jury on 4 October 2017. The full list of nominees were announced on 13 October 2017.| Best Feature Film | Best Animated Feature Film |
|  Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming Have a Nice Day  Saving Sally A Silent Voice your name. |
| Best Youth Feature Film | Best Documentary Feature Film |
 The Seen and Unseen  Big Big World  Jasper Jones The Skier The Summer is Gone |  Last Men in Aleppo Kim Dotcom: Caught in the Web The Opposition Taste of Cement A Yangtze Landscape |
| Achievement in Directing | Best Screenplay |
 Andrey Zvyagintsev – Loveless  Ana Urushadze – Scary Mother ' Kore-eda Hirokazu – The Third Murder Mouly Surya – Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts  Sanal Kumar Sasidharan – Sexy Durga | Amit V Masurkar, Mayank Tewari – Newton Boris Khlebnikov, Natalia Meshchaninova – Arrhythmia  Dastan Zhapar Uulu, Bakyat Mukul – A Father's Will David Tranter, Steven Mcgregor – Sweet Country |
| Achievement in Cinematography | Best Performance by an Actress |
| Pyotr Dukhovskoy, Timofey Lobov – The Bottomless Bag Lyu Songye – Ghost in the Mountains Mindia Esadze – Scary Mother Shehnad Jalal – Lady of the Lake Warwick Thornton, Dylan River – Sweet Country | Nata Murvanidze – Scary Mother Cut Mini – Emma' Ecem Uzun – Clair Obscur  Na Moon-hee – I Can Speak Zhou Xun – Our Time Will Come |
| Best Performance by an Actor | Cultural Diversity Award Under the Patronage of UNESCO |
Rajkummar Rao – Newton Navid Mohammadzadeh – No Date, No Signature Paolo Ballesteros – Die Beautiful Koji Yakusho – The Third Murder  Mohammad Bakri, Saleh Bakri – Wajib | Dede Centaur Die Beautiful Honeygiver Among the Dogs Lady of the Lake |
Foxtrot
A Gentle Creature Multiple wins and nominations
The following films received multiple nominations| Nominations | Film |
| 3 | Scary Mother |
| 3 | Sweet Country |
| 3 | The Third Murder |
| 2 | Die Beautiful |
| 2 | Lady of the Lake |
| 2 | Newton |