Best Actor Award (

Vietnamese Vietnamese may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Vietnam, a country in Southeast Asia ** A citizen of Vietnam. See Demographics of Vietnam. * Vietnamese people, or Kinh people, a Southeast Asian ethnic group native to Vietnam ** Overse ...

: Giải nam diễn viên chính xuất sắc) is one of the awards presented at the

Vietnam Film Festival The Vietnam Film Festival ( Vietnamese: Liên hoan phim Việt Nam), founded in 1970, is a domestic film festival of Vietnam. It is considered as the major event of Cinema of Vietnam with awards for numerous categories ranging from feature film t ...

to recognize an

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

for the performance which has been determined the best by the juries in the

feature film A feature film or feature-length film is a narrative film (motion picture or "movie") with a running time long enough to be considered the principal or sole presentation in a commercial entertainment program. The term ''feature film'' originall ...

and

direct-to-video Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film, TV series, short or special to the public immediately on home video formats rather than an initial theatrical release or television premiere. This distribution strategy was p ...

categories.

History

The category was awarded for the first time in the 2nd Vietnam Film Festival (1973) for Huy Công, he also holds the record in this category with two awards. Lê Công Tuấn Anh was also awarded two but one of them is for the role in a direct-to-video feature film. The achievement in a direct-to-video feature film, which was first awarded in the 9th Vietnam Film Festival (1990), is no longer awarded since the 20th Vietnam Film Festival (2017). It is because this category has been removed.

Awards

Notes

At the

10th Vietnam Film Festival The 10th Vietnam Film Festival was held from November 9 to November 14, 1993, in Haiphong, Vietnam, with the slogan: "For an advanced Vietnam cinema, imbued with national identity" (Vietnamese: "Vì một nền điện ảnh Việt Nam tiên tiến ...

, there was an acting award given to the children cast of the children feature film ''Cát bụi hè đường''.

References

{{Vietnam Film Festival Vietnam Film Festival Film awards for lead actor