The 2nd Golden Panda Awards concluded in Chengdu, Sichuan province, on Saturday night with a grand ceremony, presenting a total of 27 awards in film, TV drama, animation, and documentary, along with special jury awards.

The Best Film award in the film category went to Italian film There's Still Tomorrow. Pema Tseden won the Best Director award for Snow Leopard, while the screenwriting team of About Dry Grasses was awarded the Best Screenplay prize.

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Chinese actor Zhu Yilong and Brazilian actress Denise Weinberg claimed Best Actor and Best Actress honors for their outstanding performances in Only the River Flows and The Blue Trail, respectively.

In the TV drama category, She and Her Girls, based on the true story of Zhang Guimei, a principal from a mountainous area in China who devoted herself to empowering rural girls through education, won both the Best TV Drama and Best Screenplay awards.

James Strong earned the Best Director for Mr Bates VS The Post Office. Francis NG from the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region took home the Best Actor prize for his role in Escape From the Trilateral Slopes, while Chinese actress Tang Yan won the Best Actress for her performance in Blossoms Shanghai.

In the documentary category, A New Kind of Wilderness won the Best Documentary award, while Gao Song took home the Best Director prize for My Hometown Across the Ocean.

Chinese animated blockbuster Ne Zha 2, which has grossed 15.9 billion yuan ($2.2 billion) to top the global animation box office and rank fifth among the highest-grossing films in global box office history, received the Best Animation award in the animation category.

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Liu Wenzhang, producer of Ne Zha 2, said at the ceremony that his team will continue devoting themselves wholeheartedly to creating new works.

"This is the path that brought us here, our original aspiration, and what fuels our journey ahead," he said.

The Golden Panda Awards, jointly hosted by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Sichuan provincial government, is a biennial cultural event in recognition of outstanding achievements in film and television.

This year's event received 5,343 submissions from 126 countries and regions, with foreign works accounting for 73.2 percent, according to the organizers.