--- name: "Trần Anh Hùng" canonical: "https://film.one/person/tran-anh-hung" fi1m_id: "tran-anh-hung" imdb_id: "nm0870841" tmdb_id: 107730 wikidata_id: "Q557546" roles: ["Director","Writer"] born: "23 December 1962" reviewed_on_fi1m: 2 average_fi1m_score: 74 average_as: "director" average_over: 2 updated: "2026-09-26T02:35:27.961697+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Trần Anh Hùng ## Identity Trần Anh Hùng - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/tran-anh-hung - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** tran-anh-hung - **IMDb ID:** nm0870841 - **TMDB ID:** 107730 - **Wikidata ID:** Q557546 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tran_Anh_Hung, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557546, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0870841/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/107730 Director and writer. Born 23 December 1962 in Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam. ## Details - **Work:** Director, Writer - **Born:** 23 December 1962, Đà Nẵng, Central Vietnam - **Active:** 1995–present - **Also known as:** 트란 안 훙, Чан Ань Хунг, Anh Hung Tran - **Venice Film Festival:** 1 Venice prize (1 won) - **Average Fi1m score:** 74, as director, over 2 titles - **Fi1m score by decade:** 1990s 66 (1), 2020s 82 (1) - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tran_Anh_Hung, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q557546, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0870841/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/107730 ## Streaming the US now - **AMC+:** [*The Taste of Things*](https://film.one/film/the-taste-of-things.md) (82) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Trần Anh Hùng is a French-Vietnamese film director and screenwriter. He was born on 23 December 1962 in Đà Nẵng, South Vietnam, and moved to France at the age of 12 following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975. He studied philosophy before training in film and photography at the École nationale supérieure Louis-Lumière. His first three feature films form a Vietnam trilogy: *The Scent of Green Papaya* (1993), *Cyclo* (1995) and *The Vertical Ray of the Sun* (2000). *Cyclo* won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. He has also directed *Norwegian Wood* (2010), *Eternity* (2016) and *The Taste of Things* (2023), on which he is credited as both director and screenwriter. Hùng is married to actress and costume designer Trần Nữ Yên Khê, who has collaborated on several of his films. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com.* ## On Fi1m (2) - *The Taste of Things* (2023), Fi1m 82, Director, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/the-taste-of-things.md) - *Cyclo* (1995), Fi1m 66, Director, Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/cyclo.md) ## Complete filmography (14) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *The Taste of Things* (2023), Director, Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/the-taste-of-things.md) - *Rom* (2020), Supervising Editor, Producer - *The Third Wife* (2019), Art Department Assistant - *Eternity* (2016), Director, Writer - *Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere* (2015), Consulting Producer - *Bi, Don't Be Afraid* (2011), Co-Producer, Executive Producer - *Norwegian Wood* (2010), Director, Screenplay - *I Come with the Rain* (2009), Director, Writer - *A Sight for Sore Eyes* (2003), Thanks - *The Vertical Ray of the Sun* (2000), Writer, Director, Production Supervisor - *Cyclo* (1995), Director, Writer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/film/cyclo.md) - *The Scent of Green Papaya* (1993), Director, Writer - *Stone of Expectation* (1991), Director, Writer - *The Married Woman of Nam Xuong* (1989), Director, Writer ## Gallery - ![Members of the International Competition Jury at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/12039/gallery-a14bfede30c2.jpg) Members of the International Competition Jury at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival (2015) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/Members_of_the_International_Competition_Jury_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453160335%29.jpg/1280px-Members_of_the_International_Competition_Jury_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453160335%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Members of the International Competition Jury at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/12039/gallery-71e8e07577c4.jpg) Members of the International Competition Jury at Opening Ceremony of the 28th Tokyo International Film Festival (2015) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/19/Members_of_the_International_Competition_Jury_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453160335%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![第28回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー トラン・アン・ユン (審査員) (2015)](https://film.one/media/person/12039/gallery-0e29bc7a47f1.jpg) 第28回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングセレモニー トラン・アン・ユン (審査員) (2015) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Tran_Anh_Hung_%22International_Competition_Jury%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453104525%29.jpg/1280px-Tran_Anh_Hung_%22International_Competition_Jury%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453104525%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Trần Anh Hùng](https://film.one/media/person/12039/gallery-4dde58f62019.jpg) Trần Anh Hùng — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Tran_Anh_Hung_%22International_Competition_Jury%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453104525%29_%28cropped%29.jpg/1280px-Tran_Anh_Hung_%22International_Competition_Jury%22_at_Opening_Ceremony_of_the_28th_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_%2822453104525%29_%28cropped%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Trần Anh Hùng](https://film.one/media/person/12039/gallery-2b613d4361b2.jpg) Trần Anh Hùng — Image via TMDB - ![第36回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット トラン・アン・ユン (ポトフ) (2023)](https://film.one/media/person/12039/gallery-45a426f92029.jpg) 第36回 東京国際映画祭 オープニングイベント レッドカーペット トラン・アン・ユン (ポトフ) (2023) — Dick Thomas Johnson from Tokyo, Japan, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/29/Tran_Anh_Hung_from_%22The_Pot-au-Feu%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2023_%2853348533555%29.jpg/1280px-Tran_Anh_Hung_from_%22The_Pot-au-Feu%22_at_Red_Carpet_of_the_Tokyo_International_Film_Festival_2023_%2853348533555%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) ## Awards ### Venice Film Festival — 1 won - 1995: Golden Lion (won), for *Cyclo* ### Other awards — 2 won - César Award for Best First Film 1994: César Award for Best First Film (won), for *The Scent of Green Papaya* - Sutherland Trophy 1994: Sutherland Trophy (won), for *The Scent of Green Papaya* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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