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Trần Anh Hùng

Known For
Directing

Known Credits
1

Gender
Male

Birthday
December 23, 1962 (63 years old)

Place of Birth
Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam

Trần Anh Hùng

Biography

Trần Anh Hùng (born December 23, 1962; Đà Nẵng) is a French filmmaker of Vietnamese ancestry.

Hùng was born in Mỹ Tho, South Vietnam. Following the fall of Saigon at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, he immigrated to France at age 12. He majored in philosophy at a university in France. By chance, he saw Robert Bresson's film A Man Escaped and decided to study film instead. He went on to study photography at the Louis Lumiere Academy, which trains cinematographers.

Hùng has been at the forefront of a wave of acclaimed overseas Vietnamese cinema over the past two decades. His films have received international fame and acclaim, and his first three features were varied meditations on life in his home country Vietnam. Hùng's Oscar-nominated debut (for Best foreign film) was The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), which also won two top prizes at the Cannes Film Festival. His follow-up Cyclo (1995, which featured Hong Kong movie star Tony Leung Chiu-Wai), won the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival. The Vertical Ray of the Sun, released in 2000, was the third film in his "Vietnam trilogy." After a sabbatical, Hùng returned with the noir psychological thriller I Come with the Rain (2009), which featured a star-studded international cast including Josh Hartnett and Elias Koteas. Hùng directed Norwegian Wood, an adaptation of Haruki Murakami's novel of the same name, which released in Japan in December 2010. After Eternity in 2016, his return in a French production, The The Pot-au-Feu, is announced in February 2022, with Juliette Binoche and Benoît Magimel in the cast.

Known For

Directing

2023The Taste of Things...Director
2016Eternity...Director
2010Norwegian Wood...Director
2009I Come with the Rain...Director
2000The Vertical Ray of the Sun...Director
1995Cyclo...Director
1993The Scent of Green Papaya...Director
1991Stone of Expectation...Director
1989The Married Woman of Nam Xuong...Director

Writing

2023The Taste of Things...Screenplay
2016Eternity...Writer
2010Norwegian Wood...Screenplay
2009I Come with the Rain...Writer
2000The Vertical Ray of the Sun...Writer
1995Cyclo...Writer
1993The Scent of Green Papaya...Writer
1991Stone of Expectation...Writer
1989The Married Woman of Nam Xuong...Writer

Production

2020Rom...Producer
2015Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere...Consulting Producer
2011Bi, Don't Be Afraid...Executive Producer
2011Bi, Don't Be Afraid...Co-Producer
2000The Vertical Ray of the Sun...Production Supervisor

Editing

2020Rom...Supervising Editor

Art

2019The Third Wife...Art Department Assistant

Crew

2003A Sight for Sore Eyes...Thanks

Acting

1989The Married Woman of Nam Xuongas