The nominees for the 6th Asia Pacific Screen Awards, an annual accolade for the best films in Asia and the Pacific, have been revealed.

Winners in the sixth annual APSAs, the region’s highest accolade in film, will be presented at the Playhouse Theatre, Queensland Performing Arts Complex, Brisbane, Australia, on November 23, 2012.

Here is the list of nominees this year:

BEST FEATURE FILM

Bumchoiwaui Junjaeng (Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time)
Republic of Korea
Produced by Park Shin-kyu, Han Jae-duk

Khers (Bear)
Islamic Republic of Iran
Produced by Javad Norouzbeigi

Orda (The Horde)
Russian Federation
Produced by Natalya Gostyushina, Sergei Kravets

Tepenin Ardi (Beyond the Hill)
Turkey, Greece
Produced by Enis Köstepen, Seyfi Teoman, Emin Alper
Co-Produced by Nikos Moutselos

Wu Xia
Hong Kong (PRC), People’s Republic of China
Produced by Peter Ho-sun Chan, Jojo Hui Yuet-chun
Co-Produced by Lu York, Dong Keyan, Hong Tao, Jiang Wenbo

BEST CHILDREN’S FEATURE FILM

Australia Sheli (My Australia)
Poland, Israel
Produced by Marek Rozenbaum, Itai Tamir, Dariusz Jablonski, Violetta Kaminska, Izabela Wojcikl

Gattu
India
Produced by Dr. Shravan Kumar (Children’s Film Society of India)

Kiseki (I Wish)
Japan
Produced by Kentaro Koike, Hijiri Taguchi
Co-Produced by Satomi Odake

Laut Bercermin (The Mirror Never Lies)
Indonesia
Produced by Garin Nugroho, Nadine Chandrawinata
Orchim Lerega (Off White Lies)

Israel
Produced by Aurit Zamir, Yoav Roeh
Co-Produced by Janja Kralj

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE FILM

Hams Caeraten Maksura / Hamesh Matzlemot Shvurot (Five Broken Cameras)
Israel, Palestine, France
Produced by Christine Camdessus, Serge Gordey, Emad Burnat, Guy Davidi

In My Mother’s Arms
Iraq, UK, Netherlands
Produced by Isabelle Stead, Atia Jabarah Al-Daradji, Mohamed Jabarah

Al-Daradji
Negeri di Bawah Kabut (The Land Beneath the Fog)
Indonesia, Germany
Produced by Shalahuddin Siregar

Planet of Snail
Republic of Korea, Japan, Finland
Produced by Kim Min-chul, Gary Kam
Co-Produced by Janne Niskala, Imamura Ken-ichi

Shiton Hachok (The Law in These Parts)
Israel, USA, Germany
Produced by Liran Atzmor
Co-Produced by BZ Goldberg, Laura Poitras, Martin Hagemann

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE FILM

Happy Feet Two
Australia, USA
Produced by Doug Mitchell, George Miller, Bill Miller
Co-Produced by Martin Wood

Kokurikozaka Kara (From Up on Poppy Hill)
Japan
Produced by Toshio Suzuki

Momo e no tegami (A Letter to Momo)
Japan
Produced by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa, Hiroyuki Ikeda, Shigeru Watanabe, Kazuya Hamana

Nijiiro Hotaru (Rainbow Fireflies)
Japan
Produced by Atsutoshi Umezawa

Ookamikodomo no Ame to Yuki (Wolf Children)
Japan
Produced by Yuichiro Saito, Takuya Ito, Takashi Watanabe

ACHIEVEMENT IN DIRECTING

Anurag Kashyap for Gangs of Wasseypur
India

Brillante Ma. Mendoza for Sinapupunan (Thy Womb)
Philippines

Cheng Er for Lethal Hostage
People’s Republic of China

Khosro Masoumi for Khers (Bear)
Islamic Republic of Iran

Reis Çelik for Lal gece (Night of Silence)
Turkey

BEST SCREENPLAY

Cheng Er for Lethal Hostage
People’s Republic of China

Chris Martinez for Ang Babae sa Septic Tank (The Woman in the Septic Tank)
Philippines

Emin Alper for Tepenin Ardi (Beyond the Hill)
Turkey, Greece

Reis Çelik for Lal gece (Night of Silence)
Turkey

Shoaib Mansoor for Bol
Pakistan

ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY

Charin Pengpanich for Bunohan (Bunohan: Return to Murder)
Malaysia

Chin Ting-Chang for Seediq Bale (Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale)
Taiwan

Jake Pollock and Lai Yiu-fai for Wu Xia
Hong Kong (PRC), People’s Republic of China

Touraj Aslani for Fasle Kargadan (Rhino Season)
Iraqi-Kurdistan,Turkey

Yury Raysky for Orda (The Horde)
Russian Federation

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR

Choi Min-sik for Bumchoiwaui Junjaeng (Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time)
Republic of Korea

Lior Ashkenazi for Hearat shulayim (Footnote)
Israel

Manoj Bajpayee for Gangs of Wasseypur
India

Tamer Levent for Tepenin Ardi (Beyond the Hill)
Turkey, Greece

Wu Tianming for Full Circle
People’s Republic of China

BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS

Cho Min-soo for Pieta
Republic of Korea

Darya Ekamasova for Zila bila odna baba (Once Upon a Time There Lived a Simple Woman)
Russian Federation

Humaima Malick for Bol
Pakistan

Nora Aunor for Sinapupunan (Thy Womb)
Philippines

Vidya Balan for The Dirty Picture
India