Asian Film Award for Best Film has been awarded annually since 2007 by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.

Winners and nominees

2000s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2007 (1st)	The Host	괴물	Bong Joon-ho	South Korea
	Curse of the Golden Flower	满城尽带黄金甲	Zhang Yimou	China  Hong Kong
	Exiled	放·逐	Johnnie To	Hong Kong
	Love and Honor	武士の一分	Yoji Yamada	Japan
	Requiem from Java	Opera Jawa	Garin Nugroho	Indonesia
	Still Life	三峡好人	Jia Zhangke	China
2008 (2nd)	Secret Sunshine	밀양	Lee Chang-dong	South Korea
	Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame	بودا از شرم فرو ریخت	Hana Makhmalbaf	Iran
	I Just Didn't Do It	それでもボクはやってない	Masayuki Suo	Japan
	Lust, Caution	色，戒	Ang Lee	Taiwan  China
	The Sun Also Rises	太阳照常升起	Jiang Wen	China  Hong Kong
	The Warlords	投名状	Peter Chan	China  Hong Kong
2009 (3rd)	Tokyo Sonata	トウキョウソナタ	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan
	Forever Enthralled	梅兰芳	Chen Kaige	China
	The Good, the Bad, the Weird	좋은 놈, 나쁜 놈, 이상한 놈	Kim Jee-woon	South Korea
	Ponyo	崖の上のポニョ	Hayao Miyazaki	Japan
	The Rainbow Troops	Laskar Pelangi	Riri Riza	Indonesia
	Red Cliff	赤壁	John Woo	China
2010 (4th)	Mother	마더	Bong Joon-ho	South Korea
	Bodyguards and Assassins	十月圍城	Teddy Chan	Hong Kong
	Cannot Live Without You	不能没有你	Leon Dai	Taiwan
	City of Life and Death	南京! 南京!	Lu Chuan	China
	Grandmother	Lola	Brillante Mendoza	Philippines
	Parade	パレード	Isao Yukisada	Japan

2010s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2011 (5th)	Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives	ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ	Apichatpong Weerasethakul	Thailand
	Aftershock	唐山大地震	Feng Xiaogang	China
	Confessions	告白	Tetsuya Nakashima	Japan
	Let the Bullets Fly	让子弹飞	Jiang Wen	China  Hong Kong
	Peepli Live	पीपली लाइव	Anusha Rizvi	India
	Poetry	시	Lee Chang-dong	South Korea
2012 (6th)	A Separation	جدایی نادر از سیمین	Asghar Farhadi	Iran
	The Flowers of War	金陵十三钗	Zhang Yimou	China
	Flying Swords of Dragon Gate	龍門飛甲	Tsui Hark	China  Hong Kong
	Postcard	一枚のハガキ	Kaneto Shindo	Japan
	Seediq Bale	賽德克·巴萊	Wei Te-sheng	Taiwan
	You Don't Live Twice	Zindagi Na Milegi Dobara	Zoya Akhtar	India
2013 (7th)	Mystery	浮城谜事	Lou Ye	China
	Drug War	毒戰	Johnnie To	China  Hong Kong
	Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 1 & 2	गैंग्स ऑफ़ वासेपुर-भाग	Anurag Kashyap	India
	Outrage Beyond	アウトレイジ ビヨンド	Takeshi Kitano	Japan
	Pietà	피에타	Kim Ki-duk	South Korea
2014 (8th)	The Grandmaster	一代宗師	Wong Kar-wai	Hong Kong  China
	The Great Passage	舟を編む	Yuya Ishii	Japan
	The Lunchbox	द लंच बॉक्स	Ritesh Batra	India
	No Man's Land	无人区	Ning Hao	China
	Snowpiercer	설국열차	Bong Joon-ho	South Korea
	Stray Dogs	郊遊	Tsai Ming-liang	Taiwan  France
2015 (9th)	Blind Massage	推拿	Lou Ye	China
	Black Coal, Thin Ice	白日焰火	Diao Yinan	China
	Haider	हैदर	Vishal Bhardwaj	India
	Hill of Freedom	자유의 언덕	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
	Ode to My Father	국제시장	Yoon Je-kyoon	South Korea
	The Light Shines Only There	そこのみにて光輝く	Mipo O	Japan
2016 (10th)	The Assassin	刺客聶隱娘	Hou Hsiao-hsien	Taiwan  China  Hong Kong
	Bajirao Mastani	बाजीराव मस्तानी	Sanjay Leela Bhansali	India
	Mountains May Depart	山河故人	Jia Zhangke	China  France  Japan
	Mr. Six	老炮儿	Guan Hu	China
	Three Stories of Love	恋人たち	Ryōsuke Hashiguchi	Japan
	Veteran	베테랑	Ryoo Seung-wan	South Korea
2017 (11th)	I Am Not Madame Bovary	我不是潘金莲	Feng Xiaogang	China
	The Age of Shadows	밀정	Kim Jee-woon	South Korea
	Godspeed	一路順風	Chung Mong-hong	Taiwan
	Harmonium	淵に立つ	Kōji Fukada	Japan
	The Wailing	곡성	Na Hong-jin	South Korea
2018 (12th)	Youth	芳华	Feng Xiaogang	China
	Angels Wear White	嘉年华	Vivian Qu	China  France
	The Day After	그 후	Hong Sang-soo	South Korea
	Newton	न्यूटन	Amit V Masurkar	India
	The Third Murder	三度目の殺人	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan
2019 (13th)	Shoplifters	万引き家族	Hirokazu Kore-eda	Japan
	Burning	버닝	Lee Chang-dong	South Korea
	Dying to Survive	我不是藥神	Wen Muye	China
	Jinpa	撞死了一只羊	Pema Tseden	China
	Sanju		Rajkumar Hirani	India

2020s

Year	English title	Original title	Director(s)	Country
2020 (14th)[1]	Parasite	기생충	Bong Joon-ho	South Korea
	Listen to the Universe	蜜蜂と遠雷	Kei Ishikawa [ja]	Japan
	So Long, My Son	地久天长	Wang Xiaoshuai	China
	A Sun	陽光普照	Chung Mong-hong	Taiwan
	Thappad		Anubhav Sinha	India
	There Is No Evil	شیطان وجود ندارد	Mohammad Rasoulof	Iran
2021 (15th)[2]	Wife of a Spy	スパイの妻	Kiyoshi Kurosawa	Japan
	Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy	偶然と想像	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Japan
	The Disciple		Chaitanya Tamhane	India
	The Book of Fish	자산어보	Lee Joon-ik	South Korea
	One Second	秒钟	Zhang Yimou	China
2022 (16th)[3]
	Drive My Car	ドライブ・マイ・カー	Ryusuke Hamaguchi	Japan
	Decision to Leave	헤어질 결심	Park Chan-wook	South Korea
	Ponniyin Selvan: I	பொன்னியின் செல்வன்	Mani Ratnam	India
	When the Waves Are Gone	Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon	Lav Diaz	Philippines
	Poet	Akyn	Darezhan Omirbaev	Kazakhstan