The Golden Calf (Dutch: Gouden Kalf) is the award of the Netherlands Film Festival, which is held annually in Utrecht. The award has been presented since 1981, originally in six categories: Best actor, Best actress, Best film, Best Short film, Culture Prize and Honourable mention. In 2004, there were 16 award categories, mainly because in 2003 the categories Best Camera, Best Montage, Best Music, Best Production Design, Best Sound Design were added.

Famous Dutch film makers and actors that have won a Golden Calf include Rutger Hauer, Louis van Gasteren, Paul Verhoeven, Eddy Terstall, Carice van Houten, Fons Rademakers, Martin Koolhoven, Alex van Warmerdam, Fedja van Huêt, Jean van de Velde, Dick Maas, Marleen Gorris, Ian Kerkhof, Jeroen Krabbé, Monic Hendrickx and Rijk de Gooyer.

Name and meaning[link]

Dutch cattle

The name refers to an animal as is common in names of European film awards, such as the Golden Bear of the Berlin Film Festival and the Golden Lion of the Venice Film Festival, and cattle is one of the most common types of livestock in the Netherlands.^[1] The name of the award also refers to an incident in the Hebrew Bible where a golden statue of a bull (intended to represent God) was made by Aaron, which was later destroyed by Moses because the Torah prohibits making any physical representations of the god of Israel. Jury member in 2002 Martin Koolhoven says the Dutch Calvinist culture is more relativizing than proud: "This is why the Golden Calf is such a good prize, because of the wink that is included. Real foreign countries have golden lions and golden bears. We have a golden calf and after all it is sinful to worship it."^[1]

In 1995 Rijk de Gooyer threw his Golden Calf statuette on the street in the reality TV series Taxi (the Dutch version of Taxicab Confessions), when he was picked up by a taxi after a dissatisfying closing ceremony at the Netherlands Film Festival.^[1] In 1999 he let Maarten Spanjer, the host of Taxi, throw his Golden Calf for Krassen in het Tafelblad out of the window.

Award Categories[link]

Film Awards[link]

• Culture Prize
• Best long feature film
• Best Director
• Best Script
• Best Actor
• Best Actress
• Best Short film
• Best long documentary
• Best Short Documentary
• Best Camera
• Best Montage
• Best Music
• Best Production Design
• Best Sound Design

TV awards[link]

• Best Actor in a Television Drama
• Best Actress in a Television Drama
• Best Acting in a Television Drama
• Best Television Drama

Special awards[link]

• Special Jury Prize
• Public Prize
• Development Prize

• Awards only awarded once or twice are:
  • Best Film of the Century (1999) - Paul Verhoeven & Rob Houwer for Turks Fruit
  • Control Award (1994, 1992) - Cor Koppies (1994), J.Th. van Taalingen (1992)
  • Best Commercial (1990, 1991) - Todd Masters for Woonruimte gevraagd (1991), Trevor Wrenn voor Hamka's (1990)
  • Best European Film (1994, 1995) - Kazimierz Kutz for Turned Back (1995), Jonathan Cavendisch & Tim Palmer for Into the West (1994)

Retired awards[link]

• Occupation Award
• Best Supporting Actor
• Best Supporting Actress
• Honourable mention

Winners[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Golden Calf
• Golden Calf Competition
• Netherlands Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database

KALF is a commercial radio station licensed to Red Bluff, California, and located in Chico, California, broadcasting to the Butte County area on 95.7 FM. KALF airs a country music format branded as "95.7 The Wolf".

External links[link]

• Query the FCC's FM station database for KALF
• Radio-Locator information on KALF
• Query Arbitron's FM station database for KALF

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Nasrdin Dchar (born 5 November 1978 in Steenbergen,^[1] Netherlands)^[2] is a Moroccan-Dutch actor and presenter. Dchar has acted in many theatre productions. His first important television appearance was in Cut, a popular youth series of BNN. He is also seen in soap opera Onderweg naar Morgen, Eddy Terstall's Mannenharem and as a lead character in drama series VARA Deadline.^[3] He also presents AVRO 'Op de Bon'.^[4] Dchar is a Muslim and when he played a gay man in Mannenharem it caused some controversy within the Dutch Islamic community.^[5] He also played in the film Rabat, a role for which he received the prestigious Gouden Kalf award for Best Actor on September 30, 2011. He played Felix Halverstad in the 2012 Dutch film Süskind.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Nasrdin Dchar at the Internet Movie Database

Monique van de Ven (2008)

Monica Maria Theresia "Monique" van de Ven (born 28 July 1952, Zeeland (North Brabant)) is a Dutch actress and director.

From 1973 until 1988 she was married to Dutch cinematographer and director Jan de Bont, with whom she lived in Los Angeles for a number of years. She is now married to actor and writer Edwin de Vries.

Her film debut as an actress was in Turkish Delight in 1973. This film was an immediate breakthrough for her acting career. The Paul Verhoeven film was nominated for an Academy Award and was chosen as the best Dutch film of the century. Thirteen years later she played in the Oscar winning film The Assault.

Apart from acting in feature films she also performs in Dutch television series and commercials.

In 1996 she directed the short film Mama's Proefkonijn (English translation: 'Mama's Guinea Pig'); her first feature film as a director Zomerhitte (Summer Heat) was released 2008.

Filmography[link]

Actress[link]

• Turkish Delight (1973)
• Dakota (1974)
• Way Out (1974)
• Katie Tippel (1975)
• The Last Train (1975)
• Anita Drogemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr (1976)
• Doctor Vlimmen (1977)
• Inheritance (1978)
• Stunt Rock (1978)
• A Woman Like Eve (1979)
• Splitting Up (1979)
• Hoge hakken, echte liefde (1981)
• Breach of Contract (1982)
• Breathless (1982)
• Burning Love (1983)
• The Scorpion (1984)
• The Assault (1986)
• A Month Later (1987)
• Iris (1987)
• Amsterdamned (1988)
• Paint It Black (1989)
• Lily Was Here (1989)
• Romeo (1990)
• The Man Inside (1990)
• Eline Vere (1991)
• The Johnsons (1992)
• Long Live the Queen (1995)
• De Bovenman (2001)
• The Discovery of Heaven (2001)
• Amazones (2004)

Director[link]

• Mama's Proefkonijn (1996)
• Zomerhitte (2008)

External links[link]

• Monique van de Ven at the Internet Movie Database

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