The 5th Asian Film Awards was given in a ceremony on 21 March 2011 as part of the Hong Kong International Film Festival.

Nominees and Winners

Best Film

• Winner: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand)
  • Aftershock (China)
  • Confessions (Japan)
  • Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
  • Peepli Live (India)
  • Poetry (South Korea)

Best Director

• Winner: Lee Chang-dong, Poetry (South Korea)
  • Feng Xiaogang, Aftershock (China)
  • Jiang Wen, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
  • Takashi Miike, 13 Assassins (Japan)
  • Na Hong-jin, The Yellow Sea (South Korea)
  • Tetsuya Nakashima, Confessions (Japan)

Best Actor

• Winner: Ha Jung-woo, The Yellow Sea (South Korea)
  • Chow Yun-fat, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
  • Ge You, Sacrifice (China/Hong Kong)
  • Ethan Juan, Monga (Taiwan)
  • Kōji Yakusho, 13 Assassins (Japan)

Best Actress

• Winner: Xu Fan, Aftershock (China)
  • Jeon Do-yeon, The Housemaid (South Korea)
  • Rinko Kikuchi, Norwegian Wood (Japan)
  • Takako Matsu, Confessions (Japan)
  • Michelle Yeoh, Reign of Assassins (Malaysia/China/Hong Kong/Thailand)

Best Newcomer

• Winner: Mark Chao, Monga (Taiwan)
  • Aarif Lee, Echoes of the Rainbow (Hong Kong)
  • Omkar Das Manikpuri, Peepli Live (India)
  • T.O.P, 71: Into the Fire (South Korea)
  • Zhou Dongyu, Under the Hawthorn Tree (China)

Best Supporting Actor

• Winner: Sammo Hung, Ip Man 2 (Hong Kong)
  • Huang Xiaoming, Sacrifice (China/Hong Kong)
  • Masaki Okada, Confessions (Japan)
  • Ryoo Seung-bum, The Unjust (South Korea)
  • Yoo Hae-jin, Moss (South Korea)

Best Supporting Actress

• Winner: Youn Yuh-jung, The Housemaid (South Korea)
  • Yū Aoi, Ototo (Japan)
  • Yoshino Kimura, Confessions (Japan)
  • Carina Lau, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
  • Shanty Paredes, Madame X (Indonesia)

Best Screenwriter

• Winner: Lee Chang-dong, Poetry (South Korea)
  • Jiang Wen and Jiang Wen, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
  • Pang Ho-cheung and Heiward Mak, Love in a Puff (film) (Hong Kong)
  • Su Chao-Pin, Reign of Assassins (China/Hong Kong/Thailand)
  • Park Hoon-Jung, The Unjust (South Korea)

Best Cinematographer

• Winner: Mark Lee Ping Bin, Norwegian Wood) (Japan)
  • Lee Mo-gae, I Saw the Devil (South Korea)
  • Hassan Kydyraliyev, The Light Thief (Kyrgyzstan)
  • Kenny Tse Chung-to, The Stool Pigeon (Hong Kong)
  • Jake Pollock, Monga (Taiwan)

Best Production Designer

• Winner: Hayashida Yuji, 13 Assassins (Japan)
  • James Sung-pong, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (China/Hong Kong)
  • Eros Eflin, Madame X (Indonesia)
  • Huang Mei-Ching and Chen Po-Jen, Monga (Taiwan)
  • Lee Hwo-kyoung, The Yellow Sea (South Korea)

Best Composer

• Winner: Indian Ocean, Peepli Live (India)
  • Saito Kazuyoshi, Golden Slumbers (Japan)
  • Sandee Chan, Monga (Taiwan)
  • Peter Kam Pui-tat and Anthony Chue, Reign of Assassins (China/Hong Kong/Taiwan)
  • Jang Young-gyu and Lee Byung-hoon, The Yellow Sea (South Korea)

Best Editor

• Winner: Nam Na-young, I Saw the Devil (South Korea)
  • Kenji Yamashita, 13 Assassins (Japan)
  • Koike Yoshiyuki, Confessions (Japan)
  • Hemanti Sarkar, Peepli Live (India)
  • Meng Peicong, Under the Hawthorn Tree (film) (China)

Best Visual Effects

• Winner: Phil Jones and Jiang Yan-ming, Aftershock (China)
  • Kim Tae-hun and Ryu Hee-jung, 71: Into the Fire (South Korea)
  • Phil Jones, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (China/Hong Kong)
  • Yamazaki Takashi, Space Battleship Yamato (Japan)
  • Park Jung-ryul, The Man from Nowhere (South Korea)

Best Costume Designer

• Winner: William Chang Suk Ping, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)
  • Sawataishi Kazuhiro, 13 Assassins (Japan)
  • Bruce Yu Ka-on, Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (China/Hong Kong)
  • Yen-Khe Luguern, Norwegian Wood (Japan)
  • Choi Se-yeon, The Housemaid (South Korea)

Special Awards

• Lifetime Achievement Award: Raymond Chow (Hong Kong)
• Asian Film Award for Outstanding Contribution to Asian Cinema: Kim Dong-ho (South Korea)
• The Asian Film Awards for 2010’s Top Grossing Asian Film: Feng Xiaogang, Aftershock (China)
• Award for the Promotion of Asian CinemaBack: Fortissimo Films

People's Choice Awards

• Favorite Actor: Chow Yun-fat, Let the Bullets Fly (China/Hong Kong)^[1]
• Favorite Actress: Jeon Do-yeon, The Housemaid (South Korea)^[1]