Karan Johar Wins Best Host for ‘The Traitors’ at Asian Academy Creative Awards 2025 (View Pic)
Filmmaker Karan Johar has bagged the Best Host award for the Indian reality show The Traitors at the Asian Academy Creative Awards 2025 on Thursday, reported Variety. ‘Are We Just a Click Bait Headline?’: Karan Johar Questions Today’s Celebrity Culture, Urges Focus on Bringing More Stories to the Silver Screen (View Post).
Karan Johar took to his Instagram handle to express his gratitude for the win and shared his regret for not being able to attend the festival due to his attendance at the ongoing Marrakech Film Festival in Morocco.
Karan Johar Bags Best Host for ‘The Traitors’
He wrote, “I am so honoured to have won BEST HOST for TRAITORS at the Asian Academy Creative Awards in Singapore due to my prior commitment at the Marrakech Film Festival. I was unable to attend, but would like to thank the academy for this nod.”
The filmmaker concluded his note with a thank you note to Prime Video for giving him this opportunity.
India’s streaming platforms made their mark, with Prime Video’s The Traitors India winning the award for ‘best Adaptation of an Existing Format’ and Netflix’s Black Warrant for Best Editing award.
Tanya Chhabria bagged the Best Editing award for Netflix series ‘Black Warrant’.
According to Variety, Singapore’s Ivory Chia became the youngest winning actor in Asian Academy Creative Awards history, claiming best actress in a supporting role in a tiebreaker vote, as China scored wins for best feature film and best drama series.
China won best feature film for MuMu and best drama series for Strange Tales of Tang Dynasty: To The West.
The drama series win proved particularly dramatic, with Srange Tales edging out Korea’s heavily favoured When Life Gives You Tangerines by a mere 0.06 points in the evening’s final award announcement.
Japan and Singapore led the overall winners tally with six statuettes each, followed by Korea and India with five wins apiece. Karan Johar Attends London Screening of ‘Homebound’ Hosted by Gurinder Chadha (View Pics).
China and Hong Kong SAR collected four awards each, while Taiwan earned three. Australia, Malaysia and the Philippines each secured two wins, with Thailand taking one.
