List of Vietnamese submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

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.[1]

As of 2018, fourteen 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.

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.[1] The Foreign Language Film Award Committee oversees the process and reviews all the submitted films. Following this, they vote via secret ballot to determine the five nominees for the award. Vietnamese Oscar submissions are selected by the Vietnamese Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism.[2]

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.

Year
(Ceremony)		English TitleVietnamese titleDirectorResult
1993
(66th)		 The Scent of Green Papaya Mùi đu đủ xanh Tran Anh Hung Nominated
1996
(69th)		 Gone, Gone Forever Gone Gate, gate, paragate Hồ Quang Minh Not Nominated
1999
(72nd)		 Three Seasons Ba Mùa Tony Bui Not Nominated
2000
(73rd)		 Vertical Ray of the Sun Mùa hè chiều thẳng đứng Trần Anh Hùng Not Nominated
2005
(78th)		 The Buffalo Boy Mùa len trâu Minh Nguyen-Vo Not Nominated
2006
(79th)		 Story of Pao Chuyện của Pao Ngô Quang Hải Not Nominated
2007
(80th)		 The White Silk Dress Áo lụa Hà Đông Lưu Huỳnh Not Nominated
2009
(82nd)		 Don't Burn Đừng đốt Đặng Nhật Minh Not Nominated
2011
(84th)		 The Prince and the Pagoda Boy[3] Khát vọng Thăng Long Lưu Trọng Ninh Not Nominated
2012
(85th)		 The Scent of Burning Grass[4] Mùi cỏ cháy Nguyễn Hữu Mười Not Nominated
2015
(88th)		 Jackpot[5] Trúng số Dustin Nguyen Not Nominated
2016
(89th)		 Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass[6] Tôi thấy hoa vàng trên cỏ xanh Victor Vu Not Nominated
2017
(90th)		 Father and Son[7] Cha cõng con Lương Đình Dũng Not Nominated
2018
(91st)		 The Tailor[8] Cô Ba Sài Gòn Trần Bửu Lộc and Nguyễn Lê Phương Khanh
TBD

Vietnam had hoped to enter the 2008 race, but only one 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.[2]

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.[9]

Vietnam's 1993, 1999, 2000 and 2005 submissions were all released on DVD in the United States with English subtitles.[10]

Vietnam's 2007 submission, The White Silk Dress is the most expensive production in Vietnamese cinematic history.[11]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "History of the Academy Awards". Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 2009-03-19.
  2. 1 2 "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 15 August 2011. Retrieved 25 March 2009.
  3. ↑ "63 Countries Vie for 2011 Foreign Language Film Oscar". oscars.org. Archived from the original on 21 May 2012. Retrieved 2011-10-14.
  4. ↑ "Việt Nam gửi "Mùi Cỏ Cháy" đi Oscar 2013". VietnamNet. 25 September 2012. Retrieved 25 September 2012.
  5. ↑ "Viet Nam chooses Trung So for Oscars". Vietnam News. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 30 September 2015.
  6. ↑ "Vietnam announces 2017 Academy Award submission". Tuoi Tre News. 17 September 2016. Retrieved 17 September 2016.
  7. ↑ Ramachandran, Naman (13 September 2017). "Vietnam Chooses 'Father and Son' as Its Contender for Foreign-Language Oscar". Variety. Retrieved 13 September 2017.
  8. ↑ Nguyen, An (26 September 2018). "Vietnam sends movie to Oscars". VN Express. Retrieved 26 September 2018.
  9. ↑ http://www.viff.vl.ru/en/archive/?theme,5,16
  10. ↑ http://www.amazon.com
  11. ↑ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1083983/trivia
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