The following is a list of winners of the
Golden Calf
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for best long feature film at the
NFF.
Trivia
* 13 former "best feature film"-winners where the
Dutch submission for the
Academy Award for
Best International Film, including Oscar-nominee
Twin Sisters and Oscar-winner
Character
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* ''Character'' (novel), a 1936 Dutch novel by Ferdinand Bordewijk
* ''Characters'' (Theophrastus), a classical Greek set of character sketches attributed to The ...
. The other two Dutch Oscar-winners,
The Assault
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and
Antonia's Line, didn't win the Golden Calf for Best Feature Film. Oscar-nominee
Paradise Now from Dutch-Palestinian filmmaker
Hany Abu-Assad
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was
submitted by
Palestine
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.
*
Hans, Life Before Death is so far the only Documentary-film to ever win this prize. According to the "Jaarboek film 1984" by
Hans Beerekamp
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In 1976, Beerekamp entered the film quiz ''Voor een briefkaart op de eerste rang' ...
, this was a compromise choice when the Golden Calf-jury and organizers of the
Netherlands Film Festival didn't agree on the final winner.
*
Oink is the only animated film to win this prize.
* Most of the films that won are predominantly Dutch or English spoken. However it has happened three times that a film won in one of the minority languages spoken in the
Kingdom of the Netherlands:
Nynke
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in
West Frisian,
Son of Mine
''Son of Mine'' ( li, Gluckauf) is a 2015 Dutch crime film directed by Remy van Heugten. The film won 4 Golden Calves: Best Feature Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay and Best Cinematography.
Plot
Lei, descendant of an unemployed coal miner ...
in
Limburgish
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and
Buladó
''Buladó'' is a 2020 Curaçaoan drama film directed by Eché Janga. The film premiered at Netherlands Film Festival on the 2 October 2020. The film won the Golden Calf for Best Feature Film award. It was selected as the Dutch entry for the Bes ...
in
Papiamento
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.
*
Ben Sombogaart
Bernard Cornelis (Ben) Sombogaart (born 8 August 1947) is a Dutch film and TV director.
His film '' Twin Sisters'' (2002) was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
Filmography
*''The Boy Who Stopped Talking'' (1996)
*' ...
is the only director who directed three of the winning films.
Joram Lursen,
Jos Stelling,
Jean van de Velde,
Alex van Warmerdam,
Pieter Verhoeff and
Paul Verhoeven all directed two.
See also
References
Sources
*
Golden Calf Awards (Dutch)
NFF Website
{{Golden Calf for Best Feature Film
Best Long feature film
Awards for best film