Golden Calf for Best Feature Film

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	Dutch	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	Undercover Kitty	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	Sweet Dreams	Dutch & Indonesian

Trivia

• 14 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. 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 and Paul Verhoeven all directed two.

See also

List of Dutch submissions for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film

Sources

• Golden Calf Awards (Dutch)
• NFF Website