The Golden Lotus (
Vietnamese
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: Bông sen vàng) is the highest prize awarded to competing films at the
Vietnam Film Festival. The award is separated in different categories:
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 ...
;
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 w ...
;
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
; science film and
animated film
Animation is a method by which still figures are manipulated to appear as moving images. In traditional animation, images are drawn or painted by hand on transparent celluloid sheets to be photographed and exhibited on film. Today, most ani ...
. The Golden Lotus is awarded for one or several films which are chosen by the jury of each category as the best production of the festival. It is also possible that the prize is not awarded if the jury decides that no film at the festival deserves the Golden Lotus.
History
The first Vietnamese film festival was organized in order to encourage the work of composing and honor the outstanding works of Vietnamese artists in cinema field. Awards include Golden Lotus, Silver Lotus and Certificate of Merit. The Golden Lotus Medal was then designed with the image of a Golden lotus along with the name of the winning film carved in a circular shape of gilded metal, placed in a rectangular lacquer box lined with a purple-blue velvet fabric. From the jury to the award-winning artist, no one received any monetary remuneration as well as material gifts, only such symbolic medals.
From the first to the eighth festival, the Golden Lotus was awarded in three systems: feature films, documentary/science films and animated films.
From the sixth to the tenth festival, feature film for children was combined with animated film into children/animated film section, judging by the same jury.
Since the 9th film festival, the organizers have opened an additional entry for direct-to-video feature films. This section was later dropped starting at the 20th festival due to the outdated film format.
Starting from the 15th film festival, documentary film and scientific films were separated into two separate awarding systems, although still sharing the same jury.
Awards
The following films received the Golden Lotuses of the Vietnam Film Festival:
Multiple winners
The following directors received the Golden Lotus for Best Feature Film more than one time:
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Đặng Nhật Minh
Đặng Nhật Minh (b. Huế, Vietnam, 1938) is one of Vietnam's foremost film directors. He began making documentary films around 1965 and is the first Vietnamese person to be awarded the Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture, in 1999. His films have w ...
: 4 times
*Trần Vũ: 3 times
*
Victor Vu
Victor Vu (; born November 25, 1975) is a Vietnamese-American film director, writer and producer. Along with critical acclaims, news media and public opinion have also accused Vu of plagiarism. In Vietnam's landmark first official plagiarism inves ...
: 3 times
*
Huy Thành: 2 times
*Nguyễn Thanh Vân: 2 times
Notes
See also
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Golden Kite Awards
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, also known as the Vietnam Cinema Association Awards
References
{{Vietnam film and television award ceremonies
Vietnam Film Festival
Lists of films by award
Awards established in 1973
Vietnamese film awards