Wikipedia:Today's featured list/June 28, 2019
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Vietnam has submitted films for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film since 1993. The award is presented annually by the U.S. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to a feature-length motion picture produced outside the United States that contains primarily non-English dialogue. The Scent of Green Papaya, directed by Trần Anh Hùng (pictured), was Vietnam's first submission for the 1993 awards. Despite the film being financed and produced in France, Hùng asked for permission to represent Vietnam instead – it uses mainly the Vietnamese language and the characters are portrayed by Vietnamese actors. It is the only Vietnamese film to secure a nomination and was the first nomination received by a Southeast Asian country in the category. The Scent of Green Papaya and the subsequent Vietnamese submissions – Hồ Quang Minh's Gone, Gone Forever Gone (1996), Tony Bui's Three Seasons (1999) and Hùng's Vertical Ray of the Sun (2000) – were directed by overseas Vietnamese directors and chosen without any support councils, deriving solely from the directors' relationship with foreign partners. (Full list...)