The 40th National Television Festival (Vietnamese: Liên hoan truyá»Ân hình toàn quá»Âc lần thứ 40) was held from December 13 to December 16, 2020, in Hanoi. It reviewed and honoured best works of Vietnam's television industry in 2020.
This year's festival attracted 422 entries in 9 categories. In order to ensure measures to prevent and control the COVID-19 epidemic, the festival did not hold a gathering of delegates to attend activities in Ninh Binh as planned, but will be held in a limited way at the headquarters of Vietnam Television in Hanoi. The judges have conducted the examination and judging since December 13.
Due to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, most activities of the 40th National Television Festival had to be canceled. This festival this time only focuses on grading and ranking of television works in 9 categories.
In addition to the traditional official prizes, the Festival has two more prize categories:
The Announcement and Awarding Ceremony took place at 20:05 on December 16, 2020, broadcast live on VTV1, livestream on digital platforms of Vietnam Television Station. The ceremony is limited to a very low number of participants. Only the Gold Prizes was awarded on stage. The Silver Prizes and Certificates of Merit are announced and sent to the winning units.
After nearly a week of judging, the 40th National Television Festival awarded 38 Gold prizes, 63 Silver prizes and 109 certificates of merit to works registered for the competition. Only 2 individual prizes were given to actor and actress in Drama category.
There are 14 works that won Best Program on Ethnic and Mountainous Topics. The Drama category has no works eligible for this award.
After compiling online voting results, the Digital Content Interaction Prize went to The boy with cancer and the classroom for poor children (Vietnamese: "Chàng trai bá» ung thð vàlá»Âp há»Âc cho trẻ em nghèo") in the category of Children's Program. The work received 702 votes.
The list below doesn't include the works received Certificate of Merit: