Best Actress Award (Vietnamese: Giải nữ diá» n viên chÃÂnh xuất sắc) is one of the awards presented at the Vietnam Film Festival to recognize an actress with the performance which has been determined the best by the juries of feature film and direct-to-video categories.
The category was awarded for the first time in the 2nd Vietnam Film Festival (1973). TrÃÂ Giang, , and are all holding the record in this category with two awards. Thu HÃÂ was also awarded two but one of them is for the role in a direct-to-video feature film.
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.
There are also a number of times in the festival's history that a lead actress was awarded the 'Prospective Acting' award because she didn't score enough to win the 'Best Actress' award.