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CNN announces winners of Asia Pacific Screen Awards
MUMBAI: News broadcaster CNN has announced the winners of the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards at a ceremony on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. Over 500 film industry personalities from the Asia-Pacific region, Europe and the US attended the ceremony.
Films from India, Korea, Indonesia, Japan, Lebanon, Iran, Turkey and Israel received Asia Pacific Screen Awards. Scene By Scene – Best Films Of Asia Pacific airs on CNN on 17 November 2007 at 12:30 pm and 8:30 pm and on 18 November at 12:30 pm.
The awards were determined by an International Jury headed by Indian actress Shabana Azmi.
The best film award was won by Secret Sunshine from Korea. Jeon Do-yeon received the Best Performance by an Actress Award for her performance in the same film.
The best achievement in directing was awarded to Iranian directors Rakhshan Bani-Etemad and Mohsen Abdolvahab for the film Mainline.
Best screenplay was awarded to Feroz Abbas Khan for his screenplay for the Indian film Gandhi, My Father. Khan was on the Gold Coast to accept the Award.
Best children’s film was Denias, Singing On The Cloud from Indonesia. The Award was accepted by producer Ari Sihasale.
Best animated film was won by 5 Centimeers Per Second from Japan. Producer Noritaka Kawaguchi accepted the Award.
Turkish actor Erkan Can won the Best Performance by an Actor Award for his performance in Takva.
Asia Pacific Screen Awards chairman Des Power thanked Azmi and her jury colleagues, founding Director of Korea’s Pusan International Film Festival Kim Dong-ho, Iranian director Jafar Panahi, UK producer Nik Powell and Chinese filmmaker Tian Zhuangzhuang for their deliberations over the past week.
“I am very grateful to the members of the Jury. They have been extraordinarily dedicated to the challenging task of determining the Awards and I am inspired by their commitment to the aims of the Asia Pacific Screen Awards to recognise cultural diversity and acclaim filmmaking excellence across the Asia-Pacific region.
“I congratulate the winners of the inaugural Asia Pacific Screen Awards announced tonight who also inspire with their courage and creative brilliance.”
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News TV viewership jumps 33 per cent as West Asia war draws audiences
BARC Week 8 data shows news share rising to 8 per cent despite T20 World Cup
NEW DELHI:Â Even as individual television news channel ratings remain under a temporary pause, the genre itself is seeing a clear surge in audience attention.
According to the latest data from Broadcast Audience Research Council India, television news recorded a 33 per cent jump in genre share in Week 8 of 2026, covering February 28 to March 6.
The news genre accounted for 8 per cent of total television viewership during the week, up from 6 per cent the previous week. The spike in attention coincided with escalating geopolitical tensions involving the United States, Israel and Iran, which have kept global headlines firmly fixed on West Asia.
The rise is notable because it came at a time when cricket was dominating television screens. The high-stakes stages of the ICC Men’s T20 World Cup, including the Super 8 fixtures and semi-finals, were being broadcast during the same period.
Despite the cricket frenzy, viewers appeared to be toggling between sport and global affairs, boosting the overall share of news programming.
The surge in genre share comes even as the government has enforced a one-month pause on publishing ratings for individual news channels. The move followed regulatory scrutiny of the television ratings ecosystem.
While channel-level rankings remain temporarily out of sight, the genre-level data suggests that when global tensions escalate, audiences continue to turn to television news for real-time updates.
