Best Actress Award (
Vietnamese
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: Giải nữ 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
actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), 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 ...
with the performance which has been determined the best by the juries of
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).
Trà Giang
NSND Trà Giang is a Vietnamese actress. She won the award for Best Actress at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival for her role in '' 17th Parallel, Nights and Days''.
Selected filmography
* '' 17th Parallel, Nights and Days'' (1973)
* '' ...
,
Minh Châu,
Hồng Ánh and
Lê Khanh are all holding the record in this category with two awards.
Thu Hà 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
There are also a number of times in the festival's history that a lead actress was awarded the 'Prospective Acting' award because she didn't score enough to win the 'Best Actress' award.
*
Thanh Quý received 'Commendable Acting' for her role in feature film ''
Chuyến xe bão táp'' at the
4th Vietnam Film Festival (1977)
*Ngọc Bích received the 'Prospective Acting' award for her role in feature film ''Cuộc chia tay không hẹn trước'' at the
8th Vietnam Film Festival
The 8th Vietnam Film Festival was held from March 15 to March 22, 1988, in Danang, Vietnam, with the slogan "For the creation of art and perfection of the new socialist people. For the development of the national cinema" (Vietnamese: "Vì sự sán ...
(1988)
*
Hồng Ánh received 'Prospective Acting' for her role in direct-to-video feature film ''Cầu thang tối'' at the
12th Vietnam Film Festival (1999)
References
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Film awards for lead actress