MUMBAI: Chinese film Tangshan Dadizheng (Aftershock) has won the best feature film award and its lead actor Chen Daoming was declared the best actor at the fourth annual Asia Pacific Screen Awards (APSA) held in Gold Coast, Australia.

President for the international jury for APSA 2010, Academy-award winning producer Lord David Puttnam said, ‘The sheer variety of films and staggeringly good performances made our task very difficult indeed, in every category. "Ultimately Aftershock won the best film award because, in my own view, it has everything. It is as good a ‘big‘ movie as any I‘ve seen from Hollywood in years, it is incredibly moving and it ends beautifully,‘ he added. 

‘Tangshan Dadizheng‘ is the highest grossing domestic film of all time at the Chinese box office, said a press statement.

The best director‘s award was given to Korean director Lee Chang-dong for his film Shi (Poetry) and the best actress award went to the star of the film Yun Jung-hee.

The screen international jury grand prize went to Japanese actress Shinobu Terajima for ‘Caterpillar‘ and the best screenplay award which went to Samuel Maoz for Levanon (Lebanon) who also won the best screenplay award for Levanon (Lebanon).

Legendary Indonesian actress turned producer Christine Hakim was presented with FIAPF award for outstanding achievement in film.