4th Asian Film Awards

Nominees and winners

Best Film

• Winner: Mother
• *City of Life and Death
• *Lola
• *Parade
• *No Puedo Vivir Sin Ti
• *Bodyguards and Assassins

  Best Director

• Winner: Lu Chuan, City of Life and Death
• *Brillante Mendoza, Lola
• *Yonfan, Prince of Tears
• *Sono Sion, Love Exposure
• *Bong Joon-ho, Mother
• *Asghar Farhadi, About Elly

  Best Actor

• Winner: Wang Xueqi, Bodyguards and Assassins
• *Asano Tadanobu, Villon's Wife
• *Huang Bo, Cow
• *Song Kang-ho, Thirst
• *Matsumoto Hitoshi, Symbol

  Best Actress

• Winner: Kim Hye-ja, Mother
• *Li Bingbing, The Message
• *Bae Doona, Air Doll
• *Sandrine Pinna, Yang Yang
• *Matsu Takako, Villon's Wife

  Best Newcomer

• Winner: Ng Meng Hui, At the End of Daybreak
• *Zhu Xuan, Prince of Tears
• *Li Yuchun, Bodyguards and Assassins
• *Kim Sae-ron, A Brand New Life
• *Sonam Kapoor, Delhi 6

  Best Supporting Actor

• Winner: Nicholas Tse, Bodyguards and Assassins
• *Eita, Dear Doctor
• *Huang Xiaoming, The Message
• *Won Bin, Mother
• *Tou Chung-hua, The Warrior and the Wolf

  Best Supporting Actress

• Winner: Kara Hui, At the End of Daybreak
• *Yan Ni, Cow
• *Kim Kkot-bi, Breathless
• *Ryōko Hirosue, Villon's Wife
• *Sakura Ando, A Crowd of Three

  Best Screenwriter

• Winner: Bong Joon-ho and Park Eun-kyo, Mother
• *Hong Sang-soo, Like You Know It All
• *, Adrift
• *Wai Ka-fai and Au Kin-yee, Written By
• *Asghar Farhadi, About Elly

  Best Cinematographer

• Winner: Cao Yu, City of Life and Death
• *Cheng Siu-keung, Vengeance
• *Chung Chung-hoon, Thirst
• *Ly Thai Dzung, Adrift
• *Jake Pollock, Yang Yang

  Best Production Designer

• Winner: Alain-Pascal Housiaux and Patrick Deche, Face
• *Kenneth Mak, Bodyguards and Assassins
• *Hayashida Yuji, Yatterman
• *Xiao Haihang, The Message
• *Ryu Seong-hie, Thirst

  Best Composer

• Winner: Lo Ta-Yu, Vengeance
• *Jang Young-gyu and Lee Byung-hoon, Running Turtle
• *Liu Tong, City of Life and Death
• *Saito Kazuyoshi, Fish Story
• *Hoang Ngoc Dai, Adrift

  Best Editor

• Winner: Lee Chatametikool, Karaoke
• *Kong Chi-leung and Chan Chi-wai, Overhead
• *Moon Sae-kyung, Mother
• *Kats Serraon, Lola
• *Tang Hua, Zhang Yifan and Du Yuan, Crazy Racer

  Best Visual Effects

• Winner: Yi Zeonhyoung, Thirst
• *Wang Jianxiong, Jimmy Chen and Li Liping, Crazy Racer
• *Seshita Hiroyuki, Symbol
• *Fujita Takuya and Nozaki Koji, Goemon
• *Ng Yuen-fai, Tam Kai-kwan and Chas Chau Chi-shing, The Storm Warriors

  Best Costume Designer

• Winner: Christian Lacroix, Anne Dunsford and Wang Chia-Hui, Face
• *Dora Ng, Bodyguards and Assassins
• *Shim Hyun-soeb, The Sword with No Name
• *Tina Kalivas and Vaughan Alexander, Goemon
• *Wada Emi, The Warrior and the Wolf

  Special awards

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Amitabh Bachchan
• Asian Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asian Cinema: Zhang Yimou
• The Asian Film Awards for 2009’s Top-Grossing Film Director: John Woo, Red Cliff Part II