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Đặng Nhật Minh
DIRECTOR · VIETNAM

Đặng
Nhật Minh

NSND (People's Artist) Đặng Nhật Minh is a film director and screenwriter, the author of many landmark films such as "Bao giờ cho đến tháng Mười", "Thương nhớ đồng quê", "Mùa ổi" and "Đừng đốt". He was awarded the Hồ Chí Minh Prize for cinema (2007) and numerous international awards, including the Nikkei Asia Prize (1999).

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1938born 11 May 1938 · Huế

Career story

Đặng Nhật Minh was born in Huế and attended Quốc Học High School in Huế. He first became involved in cinema as a Russian interpreter at the Vietnam Film School, then turned to directing in 1965 with the documentary "Theo chân người địa chất".

In the 1980s, he made his name with "Thị xã trong tầm tay" (1983) and "Bao giờ cho đến tháng Mười" (1985), both of which won the Bông Sen Vàng (Golden Lotus) at the Vietnam Film Festival. He was named Meritorious Artist in 1988 and People's Artist in 1993, and from 1989 to 2000 served as General Secretary and then Chairman of the Vietnam Cinema Association.

His later films such as "Thương nhớ đồng quê" (1996), "Hà Nội mùa đông năm 46" (1999), "Mùa ổi" (2001) and "Đừng đốt" (2009) went on to win many awards at home and abroad. In 2005, he received a lifetime achievement award at the Gwangju Film Festival (South Korea), and in 2007 he was awarded the Hồ Chí Minh Prize for cinema.

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Awards · titles

Director and NSND Đặng Nhật Minh is a leading figure of Vietnamese cinema, having won the Bông Sen Vàng at the Vietnam Film Festival four times with Thị xã trong tầm tay (1983), Bao giờ cho đến tháng Mười (1985), Mùa ổi (2001) and Đừng đốt (2009), along with three Best Director awards. He was named NSƯT (Meritorious Artist) in 1988 and NSND in 1993, and received the Hồ Chí Minh Prize for literature and arts in 2007. Internationally, he has been recognized with the Nikkei Asia Prize for Culture (1999), a Lifetime Achievement Award in Gwangju (2005), the Kim Dae-jung Peace Film Award (2013), an honorary Golden Unicorn at Amiens (2016) and France's Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters (2022). More recently, he received the Bùi Xuân Phái – For the Love of Hanoi Grand Prize (2023) and the Cinema Achievement Award at the Da Nang Asian Film Festival (2024).

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Sources · references

https://vi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%90%E1%BA%B7ng_Nh%E1%BA%ADt_Minh

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