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. 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 three 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. The Buffalo Boy was the first selection by Vietnam's Ministry of Culture and Information, following an invitation to participate in 2006. (Full list...)