South Korean historical action film "The Battleship Island" has won the best feature-length film in a competition category of the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival, the film's local distributor said Sunday.

The movie by director Ryoo Seung-wan earned the top honor in the Orbita section for introducing most notable films of the year and honoring a title chosen by the jury composed of audiences. In the category, the Korean movie competed against such films as Takeshi Kitano's "Outrage Coda" and Taylor Sheridan's "Winder River." 

It is Ryoo's third award from the festival after "The Unjust" in 2011 and "Veteran" in 2015. 

Mike Hostench, the festival's vice chairman, cited the movie's great combination of various genres -- epic, drama and action -- as the main reason for the award, CJ Entertainment said.