Presented by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society, the full list of winners via IndieWire:
- Best film: “Mother”
- Best director: Lu Chuan, “City of Life and Death”
- Best actor: Wang Xueqi, “Bodyguards and Assassins”
- Best actress: Kim Hye-ja, “Mother”
- Best supporting actor: Nicholas Tse, “Bodyguards and Assassins”
- Best supporting actress: Wai Ying-hung, “At the End of Daybreak”
- Best newcomer: Ng Meng Hui, “At the End of Daybreak”
- Best screenwriter: Bong Joon-ho, Park Eun-kyo, “Mother”
- Best cinematographer: Cao Yu, “City of Life and Death”
- Best composer: Lo Ta-yu, “Vengeance”
- Best editor: Lee Chatametikool, “Karaoke”
- Best visual effects: Yi Zeon-hyung, “Thirst”
- Best costume designer: Tina Kalivas, Vaughan Alexander, “Goemon”
- Best production designer: Alain-Pascal Housiaux, Patrick Dechesne, Lee Tian-jue, “Face”
- Lifetime achievement award: Amitabh Bachchan
- Outstanding contribution to Asian film: Zhang Yimou
- 2009 top-grossing director: John Woo, “Red Cliff II”