Actress and traditional music singer Oh Jung-hae has received best actress honors at a French film festival for her role in "Beyond the Years."

The film's production company says it received the news from the Festival of Three Continents, which was held in Nantes and ended Tuesday.

Previous Korean best actress awardees at Nantes include Kang Soo-yeon in 1988 for "The Surrogate Woman," Shim Hye-jin in 1990 for "Black Republic" and Choi Myung-gil in '94 for "La Vie en Rose."

Oh played a blind traditional music singer in director Im Kwon-taek's one hundredth film, "Beyond the Years."