List of Vietnamese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
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Vietnam
has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
since 1993. The award is given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
to a feature-length
motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.
As of 2009, eight Vietnamese films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and one, The Scent of Green Papaya
, was nominated for an Oscar.
to determine the five nominees for the award. Vietnamese Oscar submissions are selected by the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Vietnam for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony. All films were filmed in Vietnamese
.
Vietnam had hoped to enter the 2008 race, but only film responded to an open call for entries (Black Forest, or Rừng đen) and the film was deemed to be ineligible since it had not been screened in a commercial cinema per AMPAS requirements.
Almost all of Vietnam's Oscar submissions were made by Vietnamese directors trained or based in Western countries. Trần Anh Hùng left Vietnam for France when he was 12 and Hồ Quang Minh left for Switzerland at age 13. Tony Bui and Lưu Huỳnh left for the United States at age 2 and 16 respectively and were educated there, although Lưu moved back to Vietnam in 1994. Minh Nguyen-Vo studied in France before moving to the United States to study in the 1990s.
Đặng Nhật Minh and Ngô Quang Hải have lived their entire lives in Vietnam, although they have worked on several international productions in France and the United States. Both worked on The Quiet American.
Vietnam's 1993, 1999, 2000 and 2005 submissions were all released on DVD in the United States with English subtitles.
Vietnam's 2007 submission, The White Silk Dress is the most expensive production in Vietnamese cinematic history.
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
since 1993. The award is given annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is a professional honorary organization dedicated to the advancement of the arts and sciences of motion pictures...
to a feature-length
Feature length
Feature length is motion picture terminology referring to the length of a feature film. According to the rules of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, a feature length motion picture must have a running time of more than 40 minutes to be eligible for an Academy Award.The term may also...
motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue.
As of 2009, eight Vietnamese films have been submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, and one, The Scent of Green Papaya
The Scent of Green Papaya
The Scent of Green Papaya is a Vietnamese-language film produced in France by Lazennec Production, and directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung....
, was nominated for an Oscar.
Submissions
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has invited the film industries of various countries to submit their best film for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1956. The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballotSecret ballot
The secret ballot is a voting method in which a voter's choices in an election or a referendum are anonymous. The key aim is to ensure the voter records a sincere choice by forestalling attempts to influence the voter by intimidation or bribery. The system is one means of achieving the goal of...
to determine the five nominees for the award. Vietnamese Oscar submissions are selected by the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.
Below is a list of the films that have been submitted by Vietnam for review by the Academy for the award by year and the respective Academy Awards ceremony. All films were filmed in Vietnamese
Vietnamese language
Vietnamese is the national and official language of Vietnam. It is the mother tongue of 86% of Vietnam's population, and of about three million overseas Vietnamese. It is also spoken as a second language by many ethnic minorities of Vietnam...
.
| Year (Ceremony) | English Title | Vietnamese title | Director | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 1993 in film The year 1993 in film involved many significant films, including the blockbuster hits Jurassic Park, The Fugitive and The Firm. -Events:... (66th) 66th Academy Awards The 66th Academy Awards were presented March 21, 1994, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was landmark in that it featured a female African American host for the first time, Whoopi Goldberg, and represented a direct contrast in edgy style from Billy Crystal who had hosted the... |
The Scent of Green Papaya The Scent of Green Papaya The Scent of Green Papaya is a Vietnamese-language film produced in France by Lazennec Production, and directed by Vietnamese-French director Tran Anh Hung.... |
Mùi đu đủ xanh | Nominee | |
| 1996 1996 in film Major releases this year included Scream, Independence Day, Fargo, Trainspotting, The English Patient, Twister, Mars Attacks!, Jerry Maguire and a version of Evita starring Madonna.-Events:... (69th) 69th Academy Awards The 69th Academy Awards were dominated by movies produced by independent studios, financed outside of mainstream Hollywood, leading to 1996 being dubbed "The Year of the Independents". All but one of the nominees for Best Picture were low-budget independent movies The 69th Academy Awards were... |
Gone Gone Forever Gone | Gate, gate, paragate | ||
| 1999 1999 in film The year 1999 in film involved several noteworthy events and has been called "The Year That Changed Movies". Several significant feature films, including Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut, Pedro Almodóvar's first Oscar-winning film All About My Mother, science fiction The Matrix, Deep... (72nd) 72nd Academy Awards The 72nd Academy Awards ceremony took place at Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium, and was Billy Crystal's seventh time hosting the Awards. The ceremony attracted 46.53 million viewers, an audience 3.7% bigger than the previous ceremony.The Academy Awards ceremony was dominated by two films... |
Three Seasons Three Seasons Three Seasons is an American Vietnamese language movie filmed in Vietnam about the past, present, and future of Ho Chi Minh City in the early days of New Vietnam. It is a poetic film that tries to paint a picture of the urban culture undergoing westernization. The movie takes place in Ho Chi... |
Ba Mùa | ||
| 2000 2000 in film The year 2000 in film involved some significant events.The top grosser worldwide was Mission: Impossible II. Domestically in North America, Gladiator won the Academy Awards for Best Picture and Best Actor .... (73rd) 73rd Academy Awards The 73rd Academy Awards honored the best films of 2000 and was held on March 25, 2001. It was the last Academy Awards to take place at the Los Angeles Shrine Auditorium... |
Vertical Ray of the Sun | Mùa hè chiều thẳng đứng | ||
| 2005 2005 in film - Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2005... (78th) 78th Academy Awards The 78th Academy Awards honored the best films of 2005 and were held on March 5, 2006, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. They were hosted by The Daily Show host Jon Stewart, with Tom Kane making his first appearance as the show's announcer... |
Buffalo Boy | Mùa len trâu | ||
| 2006 2006 in film - Highest-grossing films :Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top-grossing films that were first released in the United States in 2006... (79th) 79th Academy Awards The 79th Academy Awards ceremony , honored the best films of 2006 and took place on February 25, 2007 at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood on ABC. Ellen DeGeneres hosted the ceremony for the first time. The producer was Laura Ziskin. The announcers were Don LaFontaine and Gina Tuttle.The nominees were... |
Story of Pao Chuyen cua Pao Story of Pao is a 2006 Vietnamese movie. It stars Do Thi Hai Yen, who also starred in The Quiet American, and was directed and written by her husband Ngo Quang Hai. It is set among the Hmong people of North Vietnam, and won four Golden Kite Awards .... |
Chuyện của Pao | ||
| 2007 2007 in film This is a list of major films released in 2007.-Top grossing films:Please note that following the tradition of the English-language film industry, these are the top grossing films that were first released in the USA in 2007... (80th) 80th Academy Awards The 80th Academy Awards ceremony honored the best films in 2007 and was broadcast from the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California on ABC beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST/8:30 p.m. EST, February 24, 2008 . During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards in 24... |
The White Silk Dress The White Silk Dress The White Silk Dress is an acclaimed 2007 Vietnamese war-drama epic directed by Luu Huynh with starring Truong Ngoc Anh and Nguyen Quoc Khanh... |
Áo lụa Hà Đông | ||
| 2009 2009 in film The year 2009 saw the release of many films. Seven made the top 50 list of highest-grossing films, and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that as of this year, their Best Picture category would consist of ten nominees, rather than five .- Highest-grossing films :Please note... (82nd) 82nd Academy Awards The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences , honored the best films of 2009 and took place March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m. EST. The ceremony was scheduled well after... |
Don't Burn Don't Burn In 2009 Đặng Nhật Minh's film Do Not Burn , starring Tina Duong, Minh Huong and Ben Rindner, about the martyr Dang Thuy Tram, premiered at the International 19th Annual took place in Fukuoka, Japan, winning the audience prize. The film was released in late April 2009 in Vietnam and showed at the... |
Đừng đốt | ||
| 2011 2011 in film The year 2011 is notable for containing the release of the most film sequels in a single year, at 27 sequels. The following tables list films that are in production or have completed production and will be released in the United States and Canada at some point in 2011.- Highest-grossing films :... (84th) 84th Academy Awards The 84th Academy Awards ceremony will honor the best films of 2011 and will take place on February 26, 2012, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, California. It will be televised in the United States on ABC. The host was originally going to be Eddie Murphy. However, after Brett Ratner resigned as... |
The Prince and the Pagoda Boy The Prince and the Pagoda Boy The Prince and the Pagoda Boy is a 2010 Vietnamese drama film directed by Lưu Trọng Ninh. The film has been selected as the Vietnamese entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 84th Academy Awards.-See also:... |
Khát vọng Thăng Long |
Vietnam had hoped to enter the 2008 race, but only film responded to an open call for entries (Black Forest, or Rừng đen) and the film was deemed to be ineligible since it had not been screened in a commercial cinema per AMPAS requirements.
Almost all of Vietnam's Oscar submissions were made by Vietnamese directors trained or based in Western countries. Trần Anh Hùng left Vietnam for France when he was 12 and Hồ Quang Minh left for Switzerland at age 13. Tony Bui and Lưu Huỳnh left for the United States at age 2 and 16 respectively and were educated there, although Lưu moved back to Vietnam in 1994. Minh Nguyen-Vo studied in France before moving to the United States to study in the 1990s.
Đặng Nhật Minh and Ngô Quang Hải have lived their entire lives in Vietnam, although they have worked on several international productions in France and the United States. Both worked on The Quiet American.
Vietnam's 1993, 1999, 2000 and 2005 submissions were all released on DVD in the United States with English subtitles.
Vietnam's 2007 submission, The White Silk Dress is the most expensive production in Vietnamese cinematic history.
See also
- List of Academy Award winners and nominees for Best Foreign Language Film
- List of Academy Award-winning foreign language films
- Cinema of VietnamCinema of VietnamThe cinema of Vietnam originates in the 1920s, and has largely been shaped by wars that have been fought in the country from the 1940s to the 1970s. Better known Vietnamese language films include Cyclo, The Scent of Green Papaya and Vertical Ray of the Sun, all by French-trained Việt Kiều director...