The following is a list of winners of the Golden Calf for best long feature film at the NFF. Year Film Original title Language Recipients 1981 The Mark of the Beast Het teken van het beest Dutch Pieter Verhoeff 1982 A Question of Silence De stilte rond Christine M. Dutch Marleen Gorris 1983 Hans, Life Before Death Hans: Het leven voor de dood Dutch Louis van Gasteren 1984 The Illusionist De illusionist None Jos Stelling 1985 Flesh and Blood Flesh+Blood English Gijs Versluys 1986 Abel Abel Dutch Laurens Geels & Dick Maas 1987 Bygones Vroeger is dood Dutch Jos van der Linden 1988 The Vanishing Spoorloos Dutch & French George Sluizer & Anne Lorden 1989 Secret Wedding Boda Secreta Spanish Kees Kasander & Dennis Wigman 1990 Evenings De avonden Dutch René Solleveld & Peter Weijdeveld 1991 Prospero's Books Prospero's Books English Kees Kasander 1992 Kyodai Makes the Big Time Kyodai Makes the Big Time English Aryan Kaganof 1993 The Little Blonde Death De kleine blonde dood Dutch Rob Houwer 1994 1000 Roses 1000 Rosen Low German Matthijs van Heijningen 1995 Little Sister Zusje Dutch Cleo de Koning & Robert Jan Westdijk 1996 Long Live the Queen Lang leve de koningin Dutch Laurens Geels & Dick Maas 1997 Character Karakter Dutch Laurens Geels 1998 Felice...Felice... Felice…Felice… Dutch & Japanese Pieter van Huystee & Suzanne van Voorst 1999 The Flying Liftboy Abeltje Dutch Burny Bos 2000 Leak Lek Dutch Rolf Koot & Jean van de Velde 2001 The Moving True Story of a Woman Ahead of Her Time Nynke West Frisian & Dutch Hans de Wolf & Hans de Weers 2002 Miss Minoes Minoes Dutch Burny Bos 2003 Twin Sisters De tweeling Dutch & German Hanneke Niens & Anton Smit 2004 Simon Simon Dutch Imke Nieuwenhuis 2005 Paradise Now الجنّة الآن Arabic Bero Beyer 2006 Black Book Zwartboek Dutch & German San Fu Maltha, Jos van der Linden, Frans van Gestel & Jeroen Beker 2007 Crusade in Jeans Kruistocht in spijkerbroek English Kees Kasander 2008 Love is All Alles is liefde Dutch Jeroen Beker, Frans van Gestel, San Fu Maltha & Job Gosschalk 2009 Nothing Personal Nothing Personal English Reiner Selen & Edwin van Meurs 2010 Joy Joy Dutch Frans van Gestel & Jeroen Beker 2011 Black Butterflies Black Butterflies English Frans van Gestel, Richard Claus, Arry Voorsmit & Arnold Heslenfeld 2012 The Girl and Death Het meisje en de dood Russian, German & French Jos Stelling 2013 Borgman Borgman Dutch Marc van Warmerdam 2014 How to Avoid Everything Aanmodderfakker Dutch Iris Otten, Sander van Meurs & Pieter Kuijpers 2015 Son of Mine Gluckauf Limburgish Joram Willink & Piet-Harm Sterk 2016 The Paradise Suite The Paradise Suite English, French, Bosnian, Swedish, Bulgarian, Serbian & Dutch Ellen Havenith & Jeroen Beker 2017 Brimstone Brimstone English Martin Koolhoven 2018 The Resistance Banker Bankier van het verzet Dutch & German Alain de Levita, Sytze van der Laan & Sabine Brian 2019 Dirty God Dirty God English Marleen Slot 2020 Buladó Buladó Papiamento Derk-Jan Warrink & Koji Nelissen 2021 The Judgement De veroordeling Dutch Joram Willink & Piet-Harm Sterk 2022 Oink Knor Dutch Marleen Slot 2023 Sweet Dreams Zoete dromen Dutch & Indonesian Erik Glijnis and Leontine Petit 2024 Memory Lane De Terugreis Dutch, English, French & Spanish Maarten Kuit and Jeroen van den Idsert 2025 Our Girls Voor de meisjes Dutch, English, German Derk-Jan Warrink, Koji Nelissen and Marijn Wigman 2026 Truly Naked Truly Naked English Isabella Depeweg and Els Vandevorst
Trivia 15 former "best feature film"-winners were the Dutch submission for the Academy Award for Best International Film, including Oscar-nominee Twin Sisters and Oscar-winner Character. The other two Dutch Oscar-winners, The Assault 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 was submitted by Palestine. 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, 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 in West Frisian, Son of Mine in Limburgish and Buladó in Papiamento. Ben Sombogaart is the only director who directed three of the winning films. Joram Lursen, Jos Stelling, Jean van de Velde, Alex van Warmerdam, Pieter Verhoeff, Paul Verhoeven and Mike van Diem all directed two.
See also List of Dutch submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film
References
Sources Golden Calf Awards (Dutch) NFF Website