The film won the Caméra d'Or prize at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival , a César Award for Best Debut at the French annual film award ceremony , and was nominated for the 1993 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . '' The Scent of Green Papaya '' is Tran Anh Hung 's first feature film and stars his wife , Tran Nu Yên-Khê . The film is also the director 's first collaboration with Vietnamese composer Tôn-Thât Tiêt who would subsequently write the music for two more films : '' Cyclo '' and '' Vertical Ray of the Sun ''
1993 Cannes Film Festival
1993 Cannes Film Festival
The Scent of Green Papaya