The category was awarded for the first time in the
2nd Vietnam Film Festival (1973).
Đặng Nhật Minh,
Đào Trọng Khánh and Phạm Minh Trí are all holding the record with three awards. They respectively represents their categories 'Feature film', 'Documentary film' and 'Animated film'. Director Nguyễn Hoàng Lâm was also awarded three but two of them is for the science films and the other is for a documentary. The achievement in a direct-to-video feature film, which was first awarded in the
9th Vietnam Film Festival (1990), is no longer awarded since the
20th Vietnam Film Festival (2017). It is because this category has been removed. == Awards ==