Cinema of The Netherlands - Acclaimed Dutch Directors

Acclaimed Dutch Directors

• Mike van Diem, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film-winner
• Theo van Gogh, noted for actor-driven films. Assassinated in 2004
• Marleen Gorris, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film-winner
• Bert Haanstra, Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject-winner
• Joris Ivens, influential documentary-maker
• Martin Koolhoven, contemporary auteur director who crossed over from arthouse to mainstream films in the 2000s
• Pieter Kuijpers, contemporary director, most successful in the crime/thriller genre
• Nanouk Leopold, contemporary arthouse director
• Joram Lürsen, director of recent family oriented box office hits
• Dick Maas, director of four consecutive local blockbusters in the 1980s and 1990s. Also writes, produces and composes.
• Tim Oliehoek, contemporary action/comedy director
• Fons Rademakers, Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film-winner
• Jos Stelling, director of stylized movies
• Eddy Terstall, auteur director of dialogue driven low budget comedies
• Jean van de Velde, director of mainstream films
• Paul Verhoeven, successful and often controversial director, who also worked in Hollywood
• Alex van Warmerdam, writer-director of absurdist comedies, who also paints.