The Golden Calf for best film will go to the animation film on Friday evening_grunt_ gone. Earlier in the evening, the film already won two Golden Calves,for best director and best production design. The prizes were awarded duringthe closing evening of the 42nd edition of the Netherlands Film Festival inthe Utrecht City Theater.
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“I can cut half of my speech,” said grunt director Mascha Halberstad afterreceiving her second Kalf for best production design. Halberstad received theprize less than five minutes after the Golden Calf for best director.
At the end of the evening, Halberstad won the Golden Calf in the best filmcategory as the icing on the cake. Halberstad said of the film that whilemaking it, she kept whole lists of what she could have done better.
grunt is a special winner, because it is an animated film. The film is abouta nine-year-old girl. She gets a pig named Oink from her grandfather.
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Best lead roles for Jeroen Spitzenberger and Thekla Reuten
Jeroen Spitzenberger was together with Jennifer Hoffman ( Deep Shit ) andThomas Höppener ( disaster flight ) nominated for the Golden Calf for BestLeading Role in a Drama Series. The The year of Fortuyn actor said when hereceived the award that his children sometimes asked him “if he is going toplay someone who doesn’t die at the end”. “You know what it is, guys,producers like to see daddy die,” the actor joked.
Thekla Reuten also won the prize for best leading role, but in a feature film.She beat fellow actors such as Hanna van Vliet ( ANNE+ ), Joes Brauers ( DoNot Hesitate ), Julia Akkermans ( Pink Moon ) and Yannick Jozefzoon (femi ), which were nominated for the same award.
Best supporting roles for Charlie Chan Dagelet and Tobias Kersloot
disaster flight won the Calf for best drama series on Friday evening. Theseries by Michael Leendertse is about the Boeing 747 that crashed into a flatin the Amsterdam Bijlmermeer in 1992. The drama series follows two journalistswho are investigating the Bijlmer disaster.
The other nominees for the Best Drama Series category were Dirty Lines and_The year of Fortuyn_.
Charlie Chan Dagelet won with her role in Dirty Lines the Golden Calf forBest Supporting Actor in a Drama Series. The actress could not be there inUtrecht and expressed her thanks for the prize via a video message.
The prize for best supporting role in a feature film went to Tobias Kersloot,who in Do Not Hesitate played.
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Everything on the table with Linda de Mol is not a public favorite
The audience’s favorite movie was this year Bon Bini Holland 3 by Pieter vanRijn. The public could vote for the three best-attended Dutch cinema films ofthe past year for this prize until midnight on 26 September.
Will Koopman, who was also nominated as audience favourite, was Everything onthe table earlier in the evening praised by Linda de Mol. According to DeMol, who played a role in the film, Koopman “finally received the recognitionof the film world that has been due to her for so long”. costa!! was thelast nominee for the public award of the Golden Calves.