Awards & Winners

Nick Ut

Date of Birth 29-March-1951
Place of Birth Long An Province
(Vietnam, Mekong Delta)
Nationality United States of America, Vietnam
Also know as Huỳnh Công Út
Profession Photographer, Photojournalist
Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut, is a photographer for the Associated Press who works out of Los Angeles. He won the 1973 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for "The Terror of War", depicting children in flight from a napalm bombing. In particular, his best known photo features a naked 9-year-old girl, Phan Thị Kim Phúc, running toward the camera from a South Vietnamese napalm attack on North Vietnamese invaders at the Trảng Bàng village during the Vietnam War. On the 40th anniversary of that Pulitzer Prize-winning photo in September 2012, Ut became the third person inducted by the Leica Hall of Fame for his contributions to photojournalism.

Awards by Nick Ut

Check all the awards nominated and won by Nick Ut.

1973


Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography
(For his photograph, The Terror of War, depicting children in flight from a napalm bombing.)

1972


World Press Photo Award for Spot News
Honored for : The Terror of War
(Single)
World Press Photo of the Year
Honored for : World Press Photo of the Year 1972

Nominations 1972 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
World Press Photo of the Year World Press Photo of the Year 1972
World Press Photo Award for Spot News The Terror of War
Single