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 Dung, 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 (film)
• *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''